UbuntuOhio Proposal: Ohio LoCo Education Team

[Anthony]

I clicked on the link, and realized it included the word Face. So for a fix:

Face to Face Local Support:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/local

Steve Stalcup wrote:
> TheIdiotThatIsMe!!!! Great thinking!
> This is a wonderful Idea, and it falls into Local Support for the Ubuntu
> project
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/localFace to Face Local Support
>
> Our worldwide network of Local Community ("LoCo") teams is providing a
> strong backbone to our already vast and extensive Ubuntu community. Many
> of these teams provide free face to face local support, such as
> one-on-one troubleshooting, group sessions, and presentations about
> Ubuntu. Why not go and see the full list of teams! 
> It would be great to pioneer this concept!
>
> *This would fall under the New User Team
>
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 05:41 -0500, Anthony wrote:
>   
>> Howdy everyone on the Ohio LoCo Team!
>>
>> Note: To avoid any confusion,  my proposal does not have anything to do 
>> with converting education institutions to Linux.
>>
>> P.S. Note: This topic has also been posted on UF.
>>
>> Why:
>> I am a firm believer that an easy path of transition to Linux is to 
>> train  users in other Free software that is available for both Windows 
>> and Linux. At my college, I have recently been approved to start my own 
>> series of workshops and training sessions that will by taught by myself 
>> on campus and open to the community for free. The subjects in the 
>> training courses will vary, but many of them deal with training users in 
>> common basic and intermediate level tasks with Free software. For 
>> example, one session I'm having is going to be on using and managing 
>> email with Mozilla Thunderbird. During the session I will explain using 
>> some extra features of email (copy, blind copy, mailing lists, 
>> forwarding) and setting up email inside Thunderbird. Another session I 
>> will be doing will be Expanding The Web (using Firefox) to teach about 
>> profile management, RSS feeds, extensions, etc. Eventually, once users 
>> become comfortable with these programs, when we offer to switch them to 
>> Linux, they wont give up their programs they are comfortable with! When 
>> you hold your next install fest in your local area that you have been 
>> training, it can be a selling point that all these programs you've 
>> trained them in are available in a safer and more customizable environment.
>>
>> How:
>> A good approach to educating users may to be to construct local 
>> workshops and training courses in  your area that is open and free to 
>> the community. Good locations for this may be your local high school, 
>> college (or university), or local computer shops (education institutions 
>> always love an extra boost to public image to the community, and 
>> computer shops are likely to agree for an increase in customer base). 
>> Another location may be your local library also.
>>
>> It has been suggested by Vorian to include Moodle for teaching. I think 
>> Moodle looks to be a wonderful tool, that may be used to either enhance 
>> higher level workshops (if you choose to do so) using regional courses, 
>> and/or also provide higher level coures online state wide. However, for 
>> lower level courses (such as mine) I believe it would be more effective 
>> to offer them in person with hands on training, maybe using Moodle for 
>> expanded teaching outside the workshop or for sharing resources.
>>
>> Goals:
>> *To educate and train users on Free software, including but not limited 
>> to Linux.
>> *To draft proposals for team members to start local workshops.
>> *To create and share resources such as lesson plans, class ideas, and 
>> software CD's.
>> *To offer a service to the community for free to advance their skills 
>> using Free software.
>>
>>