Hi Bill, I am a little far away to attend your LUG being in South Africa but I would like to make some suggestions.
I would suggest setting up two mailing lists, one to be a lesson distribution one and the other to be a chat one for the lessons i.e. the students cannot post to the lesson distribution list but can to the chat list. Have a strictly controlled lesson structure and distribute the new lesson for the week once a week. Only those who have requested to join the class will receive the lessons and you can set the term times up so that people wanting to join can submit a request to join and they will then be added into the next running of the course. I know there is a class available at the moment called blt-something but the moderator, Henry White, has banned me from ever joining his class again because I commented on his non-distribution of the lessons i.e. he had a site that students had to go and visit to learn and I cannot afford to be online that long so that is why I asked him to send it via email. Anyway, I would love to be able to learn where Linux stores certain config files and how to install new software etc. You need to make your lessons distribution non-specific as possible but do mention what distro the lessons are made from and therefore what distro you suggest. Personally I'd go with Mandrake as it should be fairly easy for Windows users (I am still a part Windows user and thinker) to use but there are some snafu situations. Next thing is cost. The course would need to be free to internet users but maybe charged for at the LUG as it is hands on personal stuff. My 10c's worth. I look forward to receiving a notification that your free classes are going to start and to sign up via the [newbie] mailing list. -- =========================================================================== Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user and thinker ===========================================================================
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