linuxcaffe workskop ideas

[Evan Leibovitch]

Dave Sullivan wrote:
> Someone (I didn't catch his name) spoke with me after the workshop last
> night and asked if I'd be interested in hosting an intermediate
> workshop. Do you think there's interest/demand for that? He wanted to
> discuss more low-level things, such as devices and CLI stuff.
>   
At what point does this overlap with NewTLUG (the Toronto Linux User 
Group - new users SIG)?
We have regular presentations on CLI, interesting tools (last month I 
gave a presentation on the file synchronization program Unison and Gerry 
Singleton from the OpenOffice team gave a demo of its new features). 
TLUG has already recently done a MythTV workshop.

I'm all for increasing the general amount of awareness, but would prefer 
to keep the amount of gratuitous wheel reinvention to a minimum. There's 
relatively little in "new to Ubuntu" that isn't applicable to "new to 
Linux".

Perhaps, if the interest exists, I would like to suggest to maintain the 
Linuxcaffe workshops as perhaps applicable to the very newest -- curious 
to FOSS, just installing or  just installed -- and think of NewTLUG as a 
slightly higher level (ie, "OK, I have it installed and going, what kind 
of neat things can I do with it?") Initial questions -- especially 
related to hardware support, installation and initial setup -- tend to 
be distro-specific, but the slightly-more-advanced stuff strikes me as 
completely distro-neutral and perhaps worth of separate treatment.

That way, the Toronto area might be served multiple ways by its users 
with no redundancy:
absolute beginners -- Ubuntu workshops
intermediate -- NewTLUG
advanced/developers -- TLUG

- Evan

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