DoctorMo's Blog

I need your help, yes you, the experienced systems administrator, the helpful Ubuntu guy who knows how to use the command line and you the girl who knows every trick in the man page. I need you guys to go over to the Ubuntu wiki Learning Systems Administration page and help up build a list of essential topics to cover when we build these new Ubuntu Community courses. I’ve seeded some topics I think will be useful, but you don’t want to trust me, I’m a programmer, what do I know about systems administration?

I know you guys love to have input, and this is dead easy, just edit the bullet points and suggest what topics you’d love covered. Add links to useful website that you think will cover the topic or will provide materials for it. Or in the case of background topics, sites that will explain the concepts.

A few weeks ago I asked for help because I wanted to make a sys-admin course for my local community centers, where people were going to need to know how to manage Ubuntu computer labs. Well now that we have an official community learning group which is in the seedling faze (getting together all the resources) I figured during this process I’d try to see if members of the ubuntu community can lend me their brains. Once the topics are compiled then we can decided what topics need to be turned into moodle lessons and then those who are ultra helpful will help create and edit those materials and courses.

Please get involved in course creation, eduction is a highly leverageable activity. One where your help here could help thousands of people by teaching others, who then teach others and so on. Anyone who’s good with graphics, writing, copy editing or any of those not-typical Ubuntu Techy skill sets will be highly prized.