[Fwd: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course - IT's HERE!!]

[Karl Goetz]

Thought this might be of interest to the population of these lists,
sorry about the crosspost!
kk


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: Billy Cina <billy.cina at canonical.com>
To: ubuntu-training-support at lists.ubuntu.com,
ubuntu-training-community at lists.ubuntu.com, ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course - IT's HERE!!
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:56:51 +0000





OK folks the long awaited Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course is ready, waiting
and all yours for the taking! 

Thanks to all the community members who slogged over writing, reviewing,
editing, proof reading and fixing the layout. This is just the beginning
of the project which we hope will live and evolve with each new Ubuntu
release. Yours to develop, enhance and branch off to your heart's
content! 

Few points to mention about the course: 

     1. It has been written in Docbook using xml stylesheets and the bzr
        revision control, accessed through Launchpad. 
        
     2. There are 10 lessons in total with the last lesson covering
        Partitioning and Booting optional. The course is modular - 2
        days if all lessons are covered however, topics and lessons can
        be selected as required. 
        
     3. There are 2 versions of the course: 
        
              * An Instructor Guide which has instructor notes and
                answers to the exercise questions together. 
                
              * A student guide which does not have instructor notes;
                answers to the exercises are provided separately. 
                
     4. pdf versions of the student guide and instructor guide are
        attached here: Student Guide attachment:student.pdf and
        Instructor Guide attachment:instructor.pdf. In order to retrieve
        the actual code and contribute or modify the content, you will
        need to have a launchpad account and bzr set up on your
        computer. The launchpad branch is:
        [WWW]http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~canonical-training/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course-beta 
        
     5. In order to create a: 
        
              * Student guide: make booksg 
                
              * Instructor guide: make book 
                
              * Q&A for the student guide: make questions 
                
     6. There will also be a book version of the courseware which you
        will be able to purchase online. This will be formated slightly
        differently to reduce the page numbers and make the content
        overall ready for print production, but the content and
        copyright will remain the same. 
        
     7. The course content is released under Creative Commons: BY-NC-SA.
        For more information on this, please refer to:
        [WWW]http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ 
        

Other than that, enjoy, and we look forward to receiving your feedback.
You might also want to check out: http://www.markshuttleworth.com


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Billy Cina
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Karl Goetz,
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