Subject : Re: LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas
From : "Kyle Bolton" <kabolton@ncsu.[redacted]>
Date : Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:40:22 -0500
Courses isn't the material. You are out of date lol.
www.eos.ncsu.edu/e115/online_text/
A lot of the people going through it now either don’t care
about computers, or don’t care about linux. Those that do, test out, or
are smart enough to figure out.
Just give it to me. It’s a group. I'm one of them so a lot
of it will go to me anyway.
Kyle Bolton
CCNA-Cisco Certified Networking Associate
E115 Senior Instructor
ITECS EOS HelpDesk Consultant
North Carolina State University
From:
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On Behalf Of
Brian
Cottingham
Sent:
Friday, January 08, 2010 9:59 PM
To:
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Subject:
Re: LUG: Schedule for the coming semester - ideas
It's been a while since most of
us have been through E115, and even then, many of us tested out of it. I
checked
courses.ncsu.edu
but none of the
sections have course pages listed presently. Do you have any current material,
or material from the upcoming revision of the textbook/curriculum, that we
could look over and comment on? If you can put us in touch with the people
working on the new stuff I guarantee they'd find us helpful!
-Brian
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Kyle Bolton <
kabolton@ncsu.[redacted]
> wrote:
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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On Behalf Of
Alexander Ray
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Friday, January 08, 2010 4:00 PM
To:
lug
Subject:
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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