UserDaysTeam

Revision 35 as of 2009-12-13 01:49:51

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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.

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)
    • LoCo Teams

    • Forums
    • BugSquad

    • Translations
    • Developing
    • Joining teams on Launchpad
  • Seahorse and GnuPG
    • Creating a key pair
    • Use with Launchpad/Code of Conduct
    • Use with Evolution/Email
    • Signed packages in the repositories and PPAs

Things to do

  • Recruit instructors
  • Flesh out schedule on UserDays page

Possible instructors

Instructor

Topic

Timeslots available on Saturday Jan 23rd

paultag

15:00 - 25:00 EST

cprofitt

Ubuntu Equivalent programs

20:00 - 21:00, 21:00 - 22:00, 22:00 - 23:00, 23:00 - 24:00 UTC

markthecarp

Command Line Basics

14:00 - 21:00 UTC

Hellow

19:00 - 22:00 UTC

nhandler

20:00 - 23:00, or 03:00 - 05:00 (Jan 24) UTC

shrini

1200 UTC - 2200 UTC

Nagendra

Switching to Ubuntu & Installation

1200 UTC - 2200 UTC

starcraft.man

Finding Helpful Resources.

1200 - 2200UTC

FirasKraiem

Command-line basics, Restricted drivers

1600 - 2200 UTC

mhall119

Seahorse and GnuPG

24:00 - 03:00 UTC