[GTALUG] TPL teaching Linux

[Evan Leibovitch]

Hi all.

You may be interested to know that there is a new learning concept taking
hold, in a very unusual context. Libraries around the world are getting
involved in "leaning circles", in which a group of learners work together
with each other, online training, library-supplied facilitation staff and
sporadic involvement by subject experts.

The concept is going global, and different libraries are leading the way in
different fields. As it turns out, the global leader in Linux learning
circles is right here at the Toronto Public Library. Toronto and Nairobi
are the first in the world to be welcoming "new to Linux" attendees who run
the range from absolute newcomers to people looking to change careers or
others who are in IT in other realms and want to learn Linux.

The initial run of four-week "Linux Unhatched" circles is just now
concluding. I audited them at three of the six different branches
(Keele&Wilson, University at College, Yonge at Eglinton)  at which they were
held. Response has been great. At the sessions I attended I talked up
GTALUG as a way for participants to keep their interest after the sessions
are over and maybe we'll get some new participants as a result.

For its next step, the TPL is offering a 70-hour course on Linux
Essentials, based on the LPI certificate program of the same name and done
through the Cisco Networking Academy.

https://www.netacad.com/web/self-enroll/course-799917

If you know anyone interested in Linux, this is a great way to start
learning...

-- 
Evan Leibovitch, Toronto Canada
@evanleibovitch or @el56
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