On Sat, Sep 23, 2023, at 16:52, Ben Koenig wrote:
> Does anyone here know if Free Geek still teaches a commandline class? I don't
> see any references to it (or other classes) on their website but this would
> have been a great example of the skills taught in that class.
>
> If you need a creative workaround, you can look for technicians with MacOS
> management experience. Any T1/T2 tech who has had to work with JAMF managed
> devices has probably spent some time in ZSH. Oddly enough many of those
> people know Linux exists but have no idea how similar the commandline
> environment is. Most of the people working in that particular field would
> love an opportunity to leave the corporate tech support world ... they just
> don't realize it yet. ;)
>
> I just left (read: in the process of leaving) a job doing end user tech
> support in a corporate environment with over 77,000 employees. At least 10 of
> the people I worked with have never used a linux system but are more than
> capable of running commands in an Ubuntu terminal. Some of our KB articles
> for managing macOS even involved lists of shell commands. A Linux manpage
> would be a welcome change for many of those techs.
>
> Long story short: try looking for IT support techs with Mac MDM experience
> who are interested in more advanced career opportunities. Create an
> equivalency between an environment people already know and the scary linux
> beast they don't know and you might find more people.
> -Ben
>
>
> ------- Original Message -------
> On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023 at 4:07 PM, Russell Senior
> <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Priority populations: "Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC),
> > seniors, LGBTQIA+, immigrants and
> > refugees, houseless or housing insecure, foster youth, domestic
> > violence survivors, people impacted by
> > incarceration, people with disabilities, and those living in poverty"
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 3:40 PM Russell Senior
> > russ...@personaltelco.net wrote:
> >
> > > I'm involved with a grant funded project in which Personal Telco Project
> > > is to indoctrinate a few people in Community Networking serving a target
> > > population. We want people who are members of the target population, but
> > > in order to meet the project goals we feel like they need to start with a
> > > basic familiarity with Linux command line, since basically every part of
> > > the network management will require it. Our partners are concerned they
> > > won't be able to find anyone with the starting skills we have asked for.
> > > As someone for whom the Year of the Linux Desktop has been every year
> > > since 1993, I have trouble understanding their concern. We are only
> > > looking for a few people in the Portland metro area, and there are
> > > certainly a few such people here, it is just a matter of finding them and
> > > funneling them towards the entrance gate. We aren't in charge of
> > > selecting people, but given our partners concerns it seems appropriate to
> > > help them recruit potential candidates, and PLUG seems like a good place
> > > to start looking.
> > >
> > > I have thought about asking local community colleges that teach Linux
> > > skills.
> > >
> > > Any other thoughts?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Russell Senior, President
> > > russ...@personaltelco.net
Russell,
I don't fit the priority demographic. But this is great to see!
Ben,
Great points!
