[Training Community] Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course - IT's HERE!!

[William Kinghorn]

Hi Billy, All,

Well done, and thank you.

Now I have lots of reading to do.

William

>>> Billy Cina <billy.cina at canonical.com> 12/20/07 1:56 PM >>>
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OK folks the long awaited Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course is ready, waiting
and all yours for the taking!

Thanks to all the community members who slogged over writing, reviewing,
editing, proof reading and fixing the layout. This is just the beginning
of the project which we hope will live and evolve with each new Ubuntu
release. Yours to develop, enhance and branch off to your heart's content!

Few points to mention about the course:

   1.

      It has been written in Docbook using xml stylesheets and the bzr
      revision control, accessed through Launchpad.

   2.

      There are 10 lessons in total with the last lesson covering
      Partitioning and Booting optional. The course is modular - 2 days
      if all lessons are covered however, topics and lessons can be
      selected as required.

   3.

      There are 2 versions of the course:

          *

            An Instructor Guide which has instructor notes and answers
            to the exercise questions together.

          *

            A student guide which does not have instructor notes;
            answers to the exercises are provided separately.

   4.

      pdf versions of the student guide and instructor guide are
      attached here: Student Guide attachment:student.pdf
      <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=student.pdf>
      and Instructor Guide attachment:instructor.pdf
      <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=instructor.pdf>.
      In order to retrieve the actual code and contribute or modify the
      content, you will need to have a launchpad account and bzr set up
      on your computer. The launchpad branch is: [WWW]
      http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~canonical-training/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course-beta
      <http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ecanonical-training/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course-beta>


   5.

      In order to create a:

          *

            Student guide: make booksg

          *

            Instructor guide: make book

          *

            Q&A for the student guide: make questions

   6.

      There will also be a book version of the courseware which you will
      be able to purchase online. This will be formated slightly
      differently to reduce the page numbers and make the content
      overall ready for print production, but the content and copyright
      will remain the same.

   7.

      The course content is released under Creative Commons: BY-NC-SA.
      For more information on this, please refer to: [WWW]
      http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Other than that, enjoy, and we look forward to receiving your feedback.
You might also want to check out: http://www.markshuttleworth.com

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Billy Cina
Training Programmes Manager
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