My friend has successfully requested for a 2-day reservation at the Asia Pacific
College in Magallanes Village for our long-planned Installfest II which we will call
Linuxfest since we plan to cover more than just installation procedures.
Several people has already shown interest both in attending and teaching. I am asking
those who might want to contribute by teaching at the Linuxfest to please mail me at
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Why Linuxfest?
- Most of all, this event is for people with zero to very little knowledge about
Linux. We will start from explaining what Linux and open source is all about, to
introducing UNIX commands, directory/system structure, etc (yes, that basic!). I feel
that there is a need to touch this sector of the computer community since there is no
way that the common 'Juan' will just start using Linux. A huge percent of the audience
will be college students.
- I'm not competing with PLUG (and its talks during meetings) or the Linux 2k since
they cater to a different field in computing. I mean, let's face it, the average
student will not be able to use NAT or beowulf, nor would they be interested in
setting up a DNS server at home.
- We will sell Linux to students, enthusiasts, and small business owners not as a
feared UNIX OS but a powerful and practical workstation. We would also be covering
X/KDE/GNOME (we would list down the utilities they can use to make Linux a desktop
system), simple networking (home/ipmasq), and basic Internet services for small
businesses.
Plans:
* Audience: students, enthusiasts, net cafe owners/admins (especially those who run
WinNT/98-Wingate setup), staff of local computer retailers (malay mo, they might
bundle Linux on their systems or make server packages, who knows?), and everyone else
who plan or are curious about all the fuzz about Linux, the 'free' OS.
* Computers: people are encouraged to bring their systems to the event so they can
install Linux on them. While lectures are going on, a seperate team will guide those
who brought their PCs on the other side of the venue.
* Distributions: I'm expecting 7 or so new distributions that will come anytime within
a week or two from the U.S. c/o Jeff Guttierez. We will be accepting orders from
people before the event so we can burn them beforehand but we will also bring 2 CDRW
machines for those who want copies burned there. P50 per disk.
* Agenda: tentative, I'm still accepting comments/suggestions. Here's a summary
Day 1 AM / Module 1: Introduction to Linux/UNIX, comamnds, system structure and
installation
Day 1 PM / Module 2: X,KDE,GNOME, connecting and using the Internet (optional kernel
configuration)
Day 2 AM / Module 3: Home networking, diald, ipmasq, and discuss/explain misc network
tools/commands (route, gated, ifconfig, netstat, etc.)
Day 2 PM / Module 4: Networking for small businesses; apache, ftp, squid, bind, and
other servers.
Hope you guys'll support this...
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carlo sogono
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