[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?

[B. DEGRASSE]

I agree with the original posting, it is difficult coming up to speed.  How
about a newbie email list where truely dumb questions can be asked.

Bruce

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From: Alex Coker <Alex.Coker at ipaper.com>
To: discuss at ntlug.org <discuss at ntlug.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?


>This idea has merit and supports the idea of small groups meeting outside
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>regular NTLUG meeting.
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>Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net> on 02/22/2000 01:13:22 AM
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>Please respond to discuss at ntlug.org
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>Subject:  Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG veterans helping Linux newbies?
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>Chris Cox wrote:
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>> And...perhaps as an ongoing thing....we set aside every 3rd
>> meeting to do these kind of beginner focused settings....
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>> > Maybe we should plan an all-out assult to move several hundred raw
>> > newbies to 'basic competent user' status?
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>Hmmm - it's a good idea - but to get several hundred newbies into
>groups of 'several' each will require that we have ~100 machines
>set up running Linux at Nokia - even spread out over several months,
>that's still a pretty massive undertaking.  Also, it's likely that
>some such sessions would take longer than our normal meetings allow
>and that some newbies would want to learn network skills that would
>be hard to do at Nokia's facility without a lot of outside phone lines.
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>When you stop to think about it, why do we really need to do that
>all in one big session?  Why not distribute the load?
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>Perhaps it would be better to have beginners host 'newbie nights' at
>their homes rather than dragging 50 to 100 computers to some central
>location.  This would work especially well if one of the newbies
>was to provide the location (and beer and such) - invite over
>a couple of fellow beginners at a similar level of development who
>live locally and perhaps have similar end-uses for Linux in mind.
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>They would then ask NTLUG to pull one of our more expert users from
>a pool of volunteers to turn up to be the evening's "Guru".  If all
>the volunteer has to do is show up, talk Linux for a couple of hours
>in a friendly environment (and get free beer), I think you'd get
>quite a few takers for that.  Of course this implies that the
>beginner has Linux already installed and basically running.
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>Forming such small groups would also (I suspect) provide for
>a measure of 'self help' as an ongoing thing - especially if
>people are geographically close and have seen how they can
>put away a six pack and still type 'fsck' without sniggering.
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>The main contribution from NTLUG would be a database of
>beginners needing help - in what part of the Metroplex
>and with what needs - plus a database of guru's who would
>offer to help - with some indication of what they are most
>expert in and what days they can be free to help out.
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>Perhaps NTLUG could offer a small prize for "The Most Helpful
>Guru of the Month"...or some other kind of incentive to be
>a mentor.
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>Steve Baker                  http://web2.airmail.net/sjbaker1
>sjbaker1 at airmail.net (home)  http://www.woodsoup.org/~sbaker
>sjbaker at hti.com      (work)
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