Workshops on the configuration and use of general computer software in October

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#1

I would like to give a course during October on general computing.
Please respond if you are interested so that I may schedule and
otherwise plan it.

I suggest that we hold the course once per week for three weeks. I
propose the meeting time to be Monday nights, Wednesday nights, Friday
nights, or Saturday afternoons. Please say something if you care when
the course is held; if nobody tells me anything, I'll choose randomly. I
am also happy to hold more than three meetings if people find that they
want more.

During the first session, I will demonstrate the particular softwares
that I use. (I will give a similar talk at SFK.) In the remaining
sessions, I will walk participants through the installation,
configuration, and usage of the software. At the moment, I plan on
introducing software for news (newsbeuter), dictionary (dictd),
encyclopedia (kiwix, kiwix-serve), file transfer (rsync), writing (vim),
search engine (recoll), and maybe email (nmh or offlineimap+mutt).

Tom

#2

Hey Tom,

Sounds great, just a little too advanced I’m afraid - considering the low number of linux-familiar users here…

  • Monday, Wednesday, Friday/Saturday from 6pm would be great!

  • How many participants could you keep up with?

  • Planing to give this course for free?

  • Do you have anything online?

Cheers,

Altin

#3

Does anyone else want to learn this stuff but think that it is too
advanced? I could adjust things so that this works better for more
people, and I can provide accounts on a server in case people don't have
appropriate operating systems on their laptops.

I am also happy to teach anything that I know. Here are some ideas of
other things.
https://thomaslevine.com/!/computer-tutorials/

And of course it will be for free.

#4

I’d be up for it regardless of how you do it.

Should we promote it on social media? If so, we need some description and open a registration?

A.

#5

I'll come up with some description and submit it through the documented
scheduling procedure, then please promote it however you usually promote
things. We don't need registration.

#6

Let's do Wednesdays, October 5, 12, and 19 from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Are there still a few public computers in the hackerspace? I wrote the
abstract assuming that there are public computers; I'll make accounts on
a server, and people can log in to the server from the public computers.

Description follows.

Title

#7

Hahah, I like the title!!!

Dates and time seem good. We have computers but they don’t have anything installed on them so they’re currently not in use.

We can put one of them in function as a linux server, connect it to our local network, and then have people access it via putty or other client?

Otherwise, we can ask people to bring their own laptops and have a linux distro installed as dualboot or in virtualmachine prior to the event?

Either of them would work!

P.S. - I’ll create the event with FLOSSK & Prishtina Hackerspace page and share them as soon as we have this defined.

#8

Thanks

It's best if people bring their own computers because they can configure
things for their own use. For people who can't do this, my plan was in
fact to set up a server and have people connect over SSH, as you
suggest. I don't really care about the operating system; I was planning
on using my OpenBSD laptop as the server, but it would be better to set
up a server in the hackerspace so it is always on.

#9

Cool,

Shoul I go ahead and create the event?

Altin

#10

Yes, please

#11

Done, let me know if you have anything to add/change: https://web.facebook.com/events/899345416866431/#

Altin

#12

Cool

And I should get to Prishtina on Tuesday, before the open meeting. I had
previously told some of you that I would be there last week, but I found
myself having too much fun in Belgrade.