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Haifux - Haifa Linux users club - is proud to announce a beginner-level
"course" for new Linux users. The "course" will cover basic material that
would help a new Linux user get started using their system and administering
their home machine. This set of meetings is meant to be coordinated with
the next
planned Linux Day
at the Technion, in order to help people get
prepared to having this flexible operating system on their beloved PCs.
This is the fourth time we pass this series. You can read more about
the first time, the second time
or the third time.
The target audience for this series is people who have used a computer before, and want to get acquainted with Linux, in order to eventually have it installed on their PC, and use it for their day-to-day needs. We do not intend to cover what mouse is, and what key is the "Any Key". Please also take into consideration that administrators with 10 years of experience, hackers, etc. might be a bit bored in some parts (like what hard-disk cylinder is, and what LBA stands for).
The course is made of 8 lectures, carried by various Haifa Linux Club members, who spoke about various subjects. Each week two lectures will be given. One on Monday and one on Wednesday. The lectures are as self contained as possible, but we recommend an attendance to as many lectures as possible. Each lecture will be divided into two - the first part is the lecture which will take about one hour. The second part is Questions & Answers part, where various questions regarding the topic of the lecture will be answered by the Haifux members (and audience). Note that the third lecture (basic use) will be given several times during the linux-day (6/11/02). A full schedule can be found here.
The topics for the lectures are given below.
The lectures was be carried out by members of Haifux, which themselves have been Linux users for quite a while, and are motivated by the will to spread out the usage of Linux to larger audiences. They have all volunteered (or have been "volunteered" ;) ) for this task...
All lectures (besides maybe the first) have their slides on-line. The slides can be found here.
No, this "course" (and hence the quotation marks) will not cost you anything, if you came. Except for the time you spent on getting to the meetings and participating. The Lecture hall was kindly supplied by the Technion's computer science department, and the material is available on the web for participants to copy and print. We thank the faculty stuff for their help in the process of setting up the lectures, as well as the future lecturers.
There are going to be 8 lectures. Here is the Time Table.
We have a mailing list for this event. The purpose of the mailing list is to
send announcements about the lectures and the Linux Day, and nothing more.
The list will remain private, and no one would bother you after the series
ends.
To subscribe send an empty email to
i
new-lin-subscribe@vipe.stud.technion.ac.il, and follow the instructions.
To unsubscribe send an empty email to
new-lin-unsubscribe@vipe.stud.technion.ac.il, and follow the instructions.
We have found the following guide in the Internet. The guide is very comprehensive, written in clear and plain English. Available as PDF file, or the source in the Latex document preparation system.
True, no money is involved, but we need to know how many chairs we need. So please register either by filling this form, or by sending an Email to orrd@vipe.technion.ac.il. Please specify in your Email your previous experience with computers and Linux.
If you know someone who might be interested in the series, please tell
him.
You can also print an invitation and give it to people. The invitation is
available in Word (and the same file
in JPEG format), or a
PPT with its GIF format equivalent. If you
want a version which is a little more suitable to be hanged outside
the Technion, you can use this version
