| doctormo | jmarsden: It's important to get educators onboard, mostly for the learning structures and experence in teaching | 05:15 |
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| doctormo | Although getting technical people out into community centers, getting them setting up classes and teaching | 05:15 |
| doctormo | That also helps | 05:15 |
| doctormo | Sicne your getting technical writers the practical experence that gives the text meaning. | 05:15 |
| doctormo | And not just an oportunity to document things dryly | 05:15 |
| jmarsden | Right. So... we need a couple of "good" courses to attract these folks? Which currently existing course segments are "already good"? is there a wiki page with some sort of rough assessment of the state of each course or lesson? Would that be useful? | 05:16 |
| doctormo | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Learning | 05:17 |
| doctormo | The state of play is that we have various people learning how to write a course and being very unsure of just how to do it | 05:17 |
| doctormo | A couple of other people trying to put stuff together | 05:17 |
| doctormo | technical issues etc | 05:18 |
| jmarsden | :) OK... is there a page that lists the existing courses or modules somewhere there?? I'm not finding it easily... | 05:19 |
| doctormo | jmarsden: Not really, what you see is outlines, what you'll see under systems administration (the maintain button) is links to my course pages in my blog | 05:27 |
| doctormo | That about sums up what we've got published | 05:27 |
| doctormo | The work it's self is going on in bazaar branches | 05:27 |
| doctormo | https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-learning-materials | 05:27 |
| jmarsden | OK, thanks. I'll grab them, and see about creating a branch of with a more filled out virtualization lesson if I have a chance... | 05:28 |
| doctormo | jmarsden: That would truely be fantastic, we don't have anyone yet willing to rewrite that class and I was ashamed of what I could write since it's obvious I don't understand the subject more than the basics. | 05:30 |
| doctormo | Oh and join the mailing list for announcements | 05:31 |
| jmarsden | Can do. So... the .odt files for the virtualization stuff are not under bzr control as far as I can see... I should grab them from your blog and edit my local copy? And then push a branch up to LP and ask you to review it?? | 05:31 |
| doctormo | jmarsden: Yes, sounds perfect, I also have a blog page about how you contribute | 05:32 |
| doctormo | http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/ground-control-demonstration/ | 05:32 |
| doctormo | That's the easy to use UI | 05:32 |
| doctormo | http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/uow-the-ubuntu-learning-project/ | 05:33 |
| doctormo | That's the guide for contributing | 05:33 |
| jmarsden | OK, that's plenty to get me started, I think. Thanks! | 05:34 |
| doctormo | jmarsden: Your welcome, | 05:37 |
| doctormo | I think I might head to bed, I was hoping to find someone who would be able to test v1.3 of GC, but everyones scarpered | 05:37 |
| jmarsden | OK, goodnight :) | 05:39 |
| jmarsden | GC looks interesting as an idea, but I'm command-line-oriented enough not to really be a good candidate for testing it! | 05:40 |
| DiegoTc | hi nigel_nb | 11:04 |
| nigel_nb | hey DiegoTc | 11:04 |
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| WvuSoldier | hello? | 16:15 |
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| doctormo | hey WvuSoldier | 16:32 |
| WvuSoldier | hows it going | 16:32 |
| WvuSoldier | I hear you need people to help build the learning modules | 16:33 |
| doctormo | WvuSoldier: We do | 16:34 |
| doctormo | WvuSoldier: What area would you like to write for? | 16:34 |
| WvuSoldier | I switched to Ubuntu a while ago, and its time I learned more about it. Do you need new users who are relatively tech-savy but Ubuntu illiterate? | 16:34 |
| pleia2 | we could certainly use someone like you to review courses | 16:35 |
| pleia2 | maybe read them and tell us what's unclear, what else you'd like to see in them | 16:35 |
| WvuSoldier | I would love to. It helps me get more fluent, and it helps you clarify whatever you've got already | 16:36 |
| pleia2 | in a recent blog entry, I gave links to all the stuff that doctormo has written for the sysadmin course | 16:37 |
| pleia2 | http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=2481 | 16:37 |
| doctormo | WvuSoldier: Don't forget to join the mailing list for updates and announcements. | 16:37 |
| pleia2 | we're in the process of migrating it to a centralized revision control thing | 16:37 |
| WvuSoldier | I'll do that, I've got some free time today to get the ball rolling and see where we end up | 16:38 |
| pleia2 | cool | 16:38 |
| pleia2 | thanks for helping out! | 16:39 |
| WvuSoldier | its a win-win for everyone :) | 16:39 |
| doctormo | Yes :-) | 16:39 |
| WvuSoldier | I'm particularly interested in becoming as fluent with the terminal as I was with DOS (back in the day) | 16:39 |
| doctormo | pleia2: Things are going well with groundcontrol, hopefully we'll get it in universe for lucid and it'll make getting people to install it easier for our learning stuff. | 16:40 |
| pleia2 | doctormo: that's great | 16:40 |
| pleia2 | have you heard at all from nigel where he is on his course? | 16:40 |
| doctormo | pleia2: No, unfortunatly this work means I'm not able to push him on it. | 16:42 |
| pleia2 | yeah, same here | 16:42 |
| pleia2 | and I don't want to push until I can offer to help :) | 16:42 |
| pleia2 | so maybe after the move I'll follow-up | 16:42 |
| WvuSoldier | pleia2: I'll start by working through the "Command Line Basics" course and let you know my thoughts | 16:46 |
| doctormo | WvuSoldier: If you feel like contributing, bookmark this page: http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/uow-the-ubuntu-learning-project/ it gives an outline of how to edit files and such. | 16:48 |
| WvuSoldier | will do | 16:48 |
| WvuSoldier | I have a question you guys might be able to help me with | 18:53 |
| WvuSoldier | how can I see what wireless card I've got installed in this machine? | 18:54 |
| doctormo | WvuSoldier: You could do an lspci from the command line | 18:55 |
| WvuSoldier | thank you | 18:55 |
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