UserDaysTeam
Roadmap
OBJECTIVE: Develop a one day online IRC based classroom geared towards new Ubuntu users.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: Provide a quality set of courses for users in the Ubuntu Community
ACTIONS:
Determine a name, when to have the courses, and what courses/how-to's/tutorials are needed Done
Meet with the Ubuntu Beginners Team to present to them the idea and request assistance in putting together courses for users. Done
- Secure people to create and teach the courses
- Advertise the day to the public
BLUEPRINT: <link>
DRIVER:
Ubuntu User Days has been decided upon.
Schedule forming at UserDays
Course suggestions
- Switching to Ubuntu
- from Windows
- from OS X
- from BSD
- another distro
- Command Line Basics
- navigating the file system from the command line (key concept: where am I)
- using tar (tape archive) with gzip/bzip (key concept: input file(s) output file)
- aliases, setting an alias, adding an alias to ~/.bashrc (key concept: saving keystrokes)
- Ubuntu Equivalent programs (OO == MS Office, etc)
- Using Ubuntu One
- Launchpad
- Why have a Launchpad account
- Creating a Launchpad account
- Using your Launchpad account for OpenID
- Joining Launchpad teams
- Asking questions on Launchpad
- Reporting bugs on Launchpad
- How to become an Ubuntero
- How to get help
- Asking questions on Launchpad
- Reporting bugs on Launchpad
- How to 'use' restricted drivers
- From the repositories
- From the vendor
- How to Get Involved with the Community (this section isn't really appropriate for User Days as our focus is using Ubuntu, not contributing)
- Signing and Encrypting email in Evolution
- Using your GPG key in Evolution
- Getting other people's public key
- Getting your public key to other people
Things to do
- Recruit instructors
Flesh out schedule on UserDays page
Possible instructors
Instructor |
Topic |
Timeslots available on Saturday Jan 23rd |
|
10:00 - 20:00 EST |
|
Ubuntu Equivalent programs |
20:00 - 21:00 UTC |
|
Command Line Basics |
14:00 - 21:00 UTC |
|
|
19:00 - 22:00 UTC |
|
|
20:00 - 23:00, or 03:00 - 05:00 (Jan 24) UTC |
|
|
1200 UTC - 2200 UTC |
|
Switching to Ubuntu & Installation |
1200 UTC - 2200 UTC |
|
Finding Helpful Resources. |
1200 - 2200UTC |
|
Command-line basics, Restricted drivers |
1600 - 2200 UTC |
|
Email signing in Evolution |
24:00 - 03:00 UTC |