Subject : Re: LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas
From : "Kyle Bolton" <kabolton@ncsu.[redacted]>
Date : Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:37:29 -0500
On the E115 bit. I'm one of the senior E115 instructors and do
agree with this assessment. That said you have to understand the role and scope
of what E115 teaches. This said, right now we are trying to redo the textbook
and curriculum. If you have any suggestions, please do offer them to me and I'll
make sure they reach the right people.
Kyle Bolton
CCNA-Cisco Certified Networking Associate
E115 Senior Instructor
ITECS EOS HelpDesk Consultant
North Carolina State University
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Alexander Ray
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LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas
Time to start talkin about what we're doing this semester.
Here's my thoughts on it
Realm Linux - Dr. Warren Jasper. This needs to be
later in the semester so Dr. Jasper can reserve a room in CoT (they need
adequate warning). This is where its been tested and developed and means
no demo failure! come out and see the future of ncsu-flavored linux.
Not a presentation but related:
FOSS Fair - Dunno if Jack Neely's doing this again this
year, but we should *probably* show up and do something to support it this
year. Personally I'd be all for volunteering/helping if it got me outta class
for the day (which means i can see *all* the talks i want to, instead of the
ones i could make like last year).
Possibly related to the above:
ANTI-E115/ Linux101/ whatever: Freshmen enter the college of
engineering forced to learn a kludgy, text-based interface to old legacy
infrastructure that generally leaves the impression that Linux is for the
intensely masochistic. while this may or may not be the case, we could at the
very least put some kind of presentation/demo/learning experience together to
show people what Linux *really* is. This could be in conjunction with a
talk, with an installfest, with the FOSS Fair, or completely standalone.
Regardless of how it's done, my vote is that we need this, at the very
least to get more exposure to the broader campus.
Not a talk (but maybe a possibility):
Whether you like or dislike RHEL and/or Fedora, you have to
admit Red Hat is one of the most well-known and successful Linux-based
companies. And their global HQ is right next to us! *They* have an
interest in getting Linux more widely accepted in the community. *We* have an
interest in getting Linux more widely accepted in the community. Maybe we
should work together. (I know we have more than a few LUGgers and Alumni
who worked/work for RedHat, maybe they can help).
ADVERTISING!
we need moar ads. personally i wouldnt mind carrying
chaulk with me and chaulking upcoming LUG meetings around where I go to class.
Better than that are pretty print ads we can post, and pretty HTML ads we
can email. Most colleges/departments have some kind of 'announce' mailing
lists, and we can take advantage of these for big talks (like LaTeX last
semester ... heh... ). Break out of that nerdy shell, and get us some
newbs!
Projects!
New idea (sorta): LUG Projects. A lot of us work on
random little things anyways (checkout all the bots in our IRC room), so why
not make them lug events? "Get together and hack on project X".
yes/no/maybe? Maybe this would be better titled Hackfests. this (to me) is more
of 'we shall see' for the coming semester.
TALKS- what i remember getting bumped, or just talked about:
Encryption&Linux - Mark (_ohm)
...
~AlexR
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