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Preparing Training Materials for Linux Workshop in my workplace

Hey there,

I’m given roughly one month to prepare training material for an in-organization Linux training workshop in my workplace. Target audience are mostly from non-IT background who wished to know more about GNU/Linux based operating system.

I was given freedom to choose any Linux distro that I see fit for the workshop and for that matter I choose Ubuntu as it has an ultra friendly Wubi Installer that would simplify the installation exercise during the training session.

Other than that, i’m still struggling with the materials to be included during the one day (8 hours) workshop aside from Ubuntu installation.

Suggestions from Ubuntu’ers are welcomed as I’m pretty swamped with other work while working on this workshop.

8 Replies to “Preparing Training Materials for Linux Workshop in my workplace”

  2. Ala papit, if you have no idea on what to deliver, just bullshit out je like you had always did. Just maintain your foreknown title that your called yourself “The promising papit”, or now known as “The ever bullshitting papit” – sounds more sincerely. Good work!

  3. you can show how to:
    mounting their remote shared folder;
    connecting/printing to network printer;
    email setup;
    etc..

  4. I think that the first point, before you ever show them a screen shot, should be that Linux is not really one operating system, that there are lots of versions, called distributions, you might list a couple of major versions (lots of people have heard of Red Hat in some capacity).

    A few minutes on what makes Linux so special in the beginning might also give them the warm-and-fuzzies. I’m not usually an open source zealot, but the idea of a community driven project achieving what Linux has is pretty inspiring.

    I’ll also echo overlord_666 and drizad’s thoughts that fresh linux users are probably most concerned about how to do things like they’re used to, and getting things like they want them.

    In that same vein, a few seconds on setting their background with their favorite picture might de-stress some of them.

    When you’re explaining how software is installed, I’d try not to overwhelm them with the subtle (and not so subtle) differences between .deb and .rpm (and .tgz and etc etc). Since you’ve explained that different linux versions keep files in different places, they should be willing to accept that Ubuntu (an offshoot of Debian) uses debian package files, helpfully named .deb. Explaining why Ubuntu can’t use all of the packages which were created for Debian is up to you. Actually, you might just want to gloss over that fact. ;-)

    There are some things in the Linux-on-the-desktop experience that are completely foreign. I’m thinking of things like efficiently using multiple desktops, massive amounts of choice in pretty much all programs, etc.

    Good luck, you should write about how it goes.

  7. of course, you need to address the alternative software in Linux for their normal Windows apps, like browsers and office suites…

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