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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > On 24/04/10 09:46, Roland Tarver wrote: >>> >>> Hi Roly, >>> >>> Re cost, it depends on how much training / number of different topics >>> / no >>> of trainees. As a guide, I charge 25.00 for 1.5 hours when providing >>> training on a one to one basis, normally. >> >> >> ok. I will forward these details and he can decide. Man y thanks. >> >> >>> However, I am happy to be flexible on fees and would charge less per >>> person >>> for multiple trainees in a group. >>> >>> I have enough laptops to do a group of 4 people and of course, would be >>> happy for people to bring their own if they have a laptop. >>> >>> Perhaps I could come up with a suggested list of topics that may be >>> useful >>> for a beginner? >> >> Yes, if you would not mind. But please don't spend much of your time >> on it. Obviously, I have yet to ask if my friend would be interested. >> (emailing him now) >> > > Something I have gathered from attending the past couple of LUG meetings > is that more and more new users are starting to turn up, I'm wondering > if it is worth putting together some sort of training material which can > then be taught? > > With the upcoming release of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, maybe something could be > based on this (I don't want to start a distro flame war here, I'm just > thinking that 10.04 LTS is going to be around for 3 years and won't > change like other distros can do every 6 months or so). > > I'm still keeping an eye out for possible venues too, I guess somewhere > like the Shoreline is handy if it's quiet (say on a Sunday morning or > something), if I can find anywhere else I'll post it to the list. > > Rob > > Rob > > Sounds a good idea, Just downloaded the manual that is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual thanks to roland for posting that. if you're doing taught sesssions you really do need to be in a proper teaching environment, perhaps with whiteboard etc. things like openoffice are pretty standard, same would go for thunderbird etc, so these are platform independent. remember that gnome is just a desktop environment, and most of the shell stuff is again available across all plat forms so using ubuntu as a base would be a good idea, (you can always branch off adn talk to smaller groups about specifics of a distro). I contact hele hub in torquay and suggested courses in Open source / Linux and as with a lot of these suggestions, i get no responses. I recently att4ended a course in plymouth on the rfu system, again 1.5 hours to 2 hours is just about right. It would be nice to have an indication on demand for this sort of thing, as it seems training or lack there of is a big barrier to the take up of Linux of any flavour. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 10.04 is out soon : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/ - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvS2mgACgkQaggq1k2FJq38RQCfaj1qBlLhJshr8g1OPI1xpBLO pacAnRt3pKy5K+BwwyrTqqgPcT9cEBDT =6Ej1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html