[sf-lug] Ubuntu training courseware (fwd)

Wed Jan 16 15:26:30 PST 2008

Hi,

Kristian, thanks for the intro.

Stephan, I would be glad to help in any way that I can.  I was mostly just a
gopher in this St. Anthony's thing.  The real work was done by a wide
variety of people, including Kami Griffiths of Tech Soup; Karl Robillard of
the St. Anthony Foundation; and Kari Gray of the City and County of San
Francisco's tech connect program.  I am happy to ask them for permission to
give you their email addresses.  You could, of course, also Google their
organizations and contact them that way.

I am glad to help you in whatever limited way that I can.  I do have a great
deal of passion for the value that Free Open Source Software brings to
individuals and organizations across the income spectrum, which is why I
have traveled to 6 nations and 3 continents filming people involved in Free
Open Source Software projects.  We currently have 57 hours of raw forkable
footage loaded here onto the Internet Archive's Digital Tipping Point Video
Collection.  This video will need to be re-rendered for most applications
other than casual watching, as it is our "source code".

 http://www.archive.org/details.php?identifier=digitaltippingpoint

Our keyword search index page is located below.  It is the place to go to
find specific persons or themes for our footage.  It is where people's names
will appear if you are interviewed for the film:

http://tinyurl.com/yluwoc

Thanks again for the intro, Kristian!

-- 
Christian Einfeldt,
Producer, The Digital Tipping Point

On Jan 16, 2008 12:40 AM, Kristian Erik Hermansen <
kristian.hermansen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephan,
>
> Ah yes, it's me in that video from the St. Anthony's Tech Help day.
> It was a very successful event organized by a bunch of folks in the
> San Francisco bay area.  Our goal was to give help to
> financially-challenged individuals living in the Tenderloin.  I think
> it would be a great idea to replicate the event.  I am CC'ing
> Christian Einfeldt who is filming a documentary on the Open Source
> Movement entitled "Digital Tipping Point" and filmed a bit that day.
> He is a great contact if you would like to set up a similar event in
> Boston.  I am currently in California and recently returned from a
> trip to Boston.  I will likely be back for some conferences in the
> coming months though :-)
>
>
> On Jan 15, 2008 8:32 PM, Stephen Ronan <sronan at panix.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Kristian,
> > I forwarded your message below to some folks today who I thought
> > might be interested, including the two chaps cc:d above. As it
> > happened, one of them, Gabriel, had recently alerted some of us
> > same folks about this video: http://www.news.com/1606-2-6223419.html
> >
> > We found the project depicted in that video inspiring and had a
> > small initial meeting today to discuss possibly trying to
> > replicate it in Boston. Looking again at the video just now,
> > I see what I presume to be you at about 1:53. Are you by any
> > chance in Massachusetts these days?
> >     - Stephen
> >
> >
> > >
> > > fyi below -s
> > >
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:28:00 -0800
> > > From: "Kristian Erik Hermansen" <kristian.hermansen at gmail.com>
> > > Subject: Free Ubuntu Training Courseware
> > > To: "Linux Users Group" <umasslug at ecs.umass.edu>,     L-blu
> > >       <discuss at blu.org>, "Ubuntu MA" <ubuntu-us-ma at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-training-support/2007-December/000077.html
> > >
> > > <snip> In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks
> announced the
> > > release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should
> take two
> > > days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to
> cover
> > > topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is
> of
> > > interest.
> > >
> > > Coming in two versions, both downloadable as PDFs, there is a student
> guide
> > > and an instructor guide. The instructor guide comes with instructor
> notes and
> > > answers to the exercise questions together while the student guide has
> no
> > > instructor notes and the answers are provided separately.
> > >
> > > The ten sections of the course include: introducing Ubuntu; exploring
> the
> > > Ubuntu desktop; using the Internet; using OpenOffice applications;
> Ubuntu and
> > > games; customising the desktop and applications; making the most of
> images
> > > and photos; playing music and videos; ubuntu help and support; and
> > > partitioning and booting.
> > >
> > > Announcing the release of the course, Billy Cina, Canonical training
> > > programmes manager, wrote "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!"
> > >
> > > The course falls under a Creative Commons licence and people are
> > > welcome to modify and create additional content. For more details go
> > > to the announcement here.
> > > </snip>
> > > --
> > > Kristian Erik Hermansen
> > > "Know something about everything and everything about something."
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Kristian Erik Hermansen
> "Know something about everything and everything about something."
>
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