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The Ubuntu Training Community Team welcomes contributions from all levels. From new users to technical experts, we need your feedback to help create and test the various Ubuntu training products.

The Ubuntu Desktop Course ILT

The first Ubuntu Desktop Course, Instructor Led Training (ILT) was developed using DocBook to design and write the content. The current course was released for version 7.04. Our goal is to to update to version 8.10 by the end of 2008. To that end we are in the process of reviewing various options for tools and processes to help foster as much community involvement as possible. The original course was developed using this process:

1. Canonical had a training content company write the content using DocBook

2. Bzr was used to host the main project and document

3. Community & Canonical provided input at various stages of development using Bzr branches to submit patches (though some less technical folks - myself included - used the pdf version and sent feedback via email)

4. Canonical Training Team implemented changes by merging the Bzr branches and accepting email feedback
5. As courses were finished, they were loaded onto the wiki for general use and feedback

Upgrading the UDC-ILT Course

Trying to keep up with the fast pace of the 6 month release cycles is no easy task. Items for discussion include:

1. How often we should reasonably be able to offer an update of the course?
2. Is a better process and/or tools to facilitate the updating process?

   1. What does the Doc Team do? established DocBook contributers following Developer's List and Technical Roadmap, using the Feature Freeze milestone to push documentation changes.

3. Other possibilities are to use something similar to the

   1. Django Book Project, see http://www.djangobookproject.com

   2. Floss Manuals wiki-based project, see http://en.flossmanuals.net

   3. Others? please add

4. An ideal scenario would be for the source materials to be hosted in Bzr, but the format that is reviewed by the community be in either a wiki or OpenOffice format for ease of use. Would it be possible to integrate the Floss Manuals type wiki system with Bzr?

How you can participate

1. Join the ubuntu-training-community mailing list and let us know that you are interested in contributing. *Sign up at: ubuntu-training-community@lists.ubuntu.com

   1. List any relevant background or expertise you might have
   2. Join in on the monthly meetings, to be held the first Wednesday of the month in #ubuntu-training (next one is 8 October @20:00UTC)
2. Tasks we need help with:
   1. Updating the courseware for the Ubuntu Desktop Course including identifying what needs to be updated, rewriting and editing sections, reviewing the beta version
   2. Reviewing new courseware as it is being developed
   3. Using the courseware to teach at your Loco meetings and other non-profits and sending us feedback
   4. Helping us to identify other courses/classes that might be good candidates for development
   5. Working with the Classroom and other teams to use the materials to help train others on IRC and other events

Brainstorm Area

If you have any ideas/comment or questions, please add them here. And always feel free to email me, with any questions or concerns: dinda AT ubuntu DOT com

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