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Hi,

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Nelson Marques <[email protected]> wrote:
>  If there is possibility of me, or anyone else, or even me and other
> volunteer to give them a small 10 hour crash course on how to jump into
> openSUSE and explore possibilities with a group of students... Would
> anyone be interested in developing the contents for a 10 hour event with
> students ?

That's a great idea. Usually people just give talks up to 45 minutes
and most of the time is spent on non-technical aspects which are what
people typically are not interested in.

Count me in on whatever you may need to organize these crash courses
in Portugal.

>  Has someone done this before or has anything we can use? Anyone can
> share some experiences on this field ?

I've seen lately some activity around this topic on PlanetSUSE, but
can't find right now the blog posts I saw the other day with a class
room full of people learning on how to use openSUSE, etc.


>  Would you mind that I would make this happen around openSUSE ?

I'm pretty confident that the anyone's opinion is "Go for it! Thanks!" ;-)

>  What would be the steps that one would take inside the openSUSE
> community to prepare a crash program to present to 'new users' on
> openSUSE. How would we split the topics and fit them... for example:
>
>  - 1 theoretical group
>  -- The open source vision
>  -- Value and Deployment
>  -- The openSUSE values and Community
>  -- the openSUSE resources to the community
>  -- Ramp into openSUSE enrollment
>  - 1 practical group
>  -- Installing openSUSE Linux
>  -- Configuration openSUSE Linux / YaST
>  -- Repository management / info
>  -- Software Groups
>  -- Basic Service Configuration (popular stuff: apache, mysql, postfix,
> etc)
>
>  I might be forgetting things that are important, but this is pretty
> much a mockup of a potential 'service plan'.

As said above, people don't pay much attention on theory because it's
bored (most of it is, we must admit it) and as so I truly recommend
only to spend, say, 1/10 of the crash course time on theoretical
stuff.

Keep up the good work!

Carlos Gonçalves
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