GettingInvolved

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At the end of November 2007, Canonical will launch the first official Ubuntu desktop training courses. There will be 2 courses:

  • One instructor led, 2 days in a classroom and the other will be,
  • A web based elearning format, following the same contents as the instructor led.

BR The material for the instructor led course will be FREELY AVAILABLE on the Ubuntu wiki for all to use, share, improve and translate. The elearning format will be a paid for service. The focus of both courses will be very much to comfort and reassure people (new users) that moving from proprietary OS to Ubuntu is no big deal; this will be a 'comfort blanket' course.

We REALLY REALLY depend on community involvement to make this course as fantastic as can be. As such, we have set up a new Ubuntu training community team and a working model whereby: BR

  1. We have a training content company write the content

  2. Community & Canonical provide input at various stages of development

  3. Content people implement changes
  4. Once courses are finished, they're loaded onto the wiki for general use and abuse
  5. 3 months before next Ubuntu release, we review the content ad decide which elements need to be included in the next version etc.

BR We will be using Docbook to design and write the content. One word of caution is that this project will be deadline driven - cut off points for feedback will be absolute in order for us to be able to meet the November target date. BR If you are interested in participating please:

BR See you there!