Ubuntu Training Community

[Billy Cina]

HI all,

If you are receiving this email it's more than likely because you've either told me in the past that you're interested in getting involved in
Ubuntu training related work AND / OR judging from the mailing list you've subscribed to, I thought you'd be interested in reading the
latest regarding Ubuntu training projects.

At the end of November 2007,  Canonical will launch the first official Ubuntu desktop training courses. There will be 2 courses - one
instructor led, 2 days in a classroom and the other will be a web based elearning format, following the same contents as the instructor led. The
material for the instructor led course will be* FREELY AVAILABLE* on the Ubuntu wiki for all to use, share, improve and translate. The elearning
format will be a paid for service. The focus of both courses will be very much to comfort and reassure people (new users) that moving from MS
to Ubuntu is no big deal; this will be a 'comfort blanket' course.

We REALLY REALLY want community involvement to make this course as fantastic as can be. As such, we are setting up a new Ubuntu training
community team. What we were thinking of is basically a working model whereby:

a. We have a training content company write the content.
b. Community & Canonical provide input at various stages of development.
c. Content people implement changes
d. Once courses are finished, they're loaded onto the wiki for general
use and abuse
e. 3 months before next Ubuntu release, we review the content ad decide
which elements need to be included in the next version etc.

We will be using Docbook to design and write the content. One word of caution is that this project will be deadline driven - cut off points
for feedback will be absolute in order for us to be able to meet the  November target date.

How does that sound? If you are interested in being a member of this team I would love to hear from you AND as the first kick off point, please head over to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training/DesktopCourseFeedback and follow the instructions to offer your feedback on the proposed Table Of Contents."

The course will be based on Gutsy and should be designed in a modular way that will enable customers and instructors to cut and paste the course.
ie cover some elements and not others. Is there anything missing? Should we take something out? Think of both home users and corporate users
learning to use Gutsy and Ubuntu for the very first time!

The final date to provide feedback is: *3rd August. *Please do so by sending an email with your thoughts / comments to: training at ubuntu.com

I will be chairing this project initially until a budding leader rises to the challenge. Any takers? A kick off meeting will also be set up once I gauge the level of interest.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Best regards

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Billy Cina
Training Programmes Manager
Dir: +44 207 630 2454
Mob: +44 780 938 9862
billy.cina at canonical.com
www.ubuntu.com