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Re: [SFD-discuss] Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for neophytes moving to GNU/Linux ?...

by Alexandro Colorado

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:38 AM, don warner saklad <don.saklad(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Instructive info with the easiest of learning curves. > Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for > neophytes moving to GNU/Linux. Especially weblinks cautious about the > use of jargon or explain carefully any jargon used ! For example > avoiding the jargon term distros, jargon not used by consumers > generally. > > Meaningful advocating. > Advocating is a lot easier and meaningful if it includes how do I > setup GNU/Linux now?... > Check the series of Linux Reality: http://www.linuxreality.com The show is long over, but the series is very structured and still current. > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org

Sept. 19, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for neophytes moving to GNU/Linux ?...

by Larry Cafiero

Don -- No doubt you have heard the saying "give a man a fish and he eats for a day, but teach a man to fish and he eats for a lifetime" (or its corollary, "give a man a fish and he eats for a day, but teach a man to fish and you'll never see him again."). While I don't have specific tutorial sites to offer -- this is where Google is your friend -- your e-mail touches on an issue that is not addressed enough in Free/Open Source Software circles, in my opinion, and where the folks organizing SFD could help. Let's not fall into the trap that users who come to GNU/Linux and FOSS are complete idiots who need to be spoonfed everything they need to know ("Step one: Turn on your computer by locating the power button and pressing it."). After all, they're smart enough to realize that they have alternatives to Windows (and MacOS), which is why they want to try GNU/Linux and *BSD, and as such their curiosity will lead them to read the tutorials that are out there. The jargon/lingo/language will be picked up in the process. While I don't have specific sites to refer to -- again, this is where Google is your friend -- I recall when I started out in Linux/FOSS four years ago that there were many tutorials -- some more difficult than others -- but the learning curve for someone with at least average intelligence (and I count myself in this category) was not steep at all, and grasping the terminology was not a hurdle. In my own experience, if one tutorial was incomprehensible (due to the level or poor writing or lack of organization), I found another that I could understand. Do some tutorials out there need to be simplified and/or better organized? Absolutely. Are the better written ones out there? Yep. What I guess would be a good start would be to get the links to the better written ones together in one place where people can get to them -- a wiki page hosted by the SFD site perhaps? It might make for a good project for the SFD folks to take on, if they're up to it, and while I can't spearhead it, I'd help work on it. Larry Cafiero On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 8:38 AM, don warner saklad <don.saklad(a)gmail.com>wrote: > Instructive info with the easiest of learning curves. > Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for > neophytes moving to GNU/Linux. Especially weblinks cautious about the > use of jargon or explain carefully any jargon used ! For example > avoiding the jargon term distros, jargon not used by consumers > generally. > > Meaningful advocating. > Advocating is a lot easier and meaningful if it includes how do I > setup GNU/Linux now?... > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 19, 2010

A Great Day at SFD 2010

by Mark Walker

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Thought I'd pass along that the Fredericksburg Linux Users Group (FredLUG) had a very productive day promoting FOSS. We had two tables in the 600 block of Caroline Street in old town Fredericksburg, Virginia, USA from 0900 to about 1545 (UTC−04). We talked with numerous people who'd never heard of Linux, provided them a comparison chart of proprietary applications and their FOSS counterparts, passed out OpenDisc DVDs with a list of several of the apps on it, as well as Fedora and Ubuntu live DVDs. There was a Linux laptop running a looped OpenOffice.org presentation telling of the advantages of FOSS, and a Mac PowerBook G4 running Yellow Dog Linux playing Creative Commons music in Rhythm Box; one visitor asked to turn up the volume so he could hear the music better. Several people said they'd stop by our follow-up InstallFest next Saturday, September 25th, to get Linux installed on their computers. It was a festive event and our whole group had a great time knowing this was taking place all over the world. A great day all around. Best to all, from Fredericksburg, Mark - -- Mark Caldwell Walker Contact info at marwalk.tel GnuPG public key AA482E46 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyVQBQACgkQfCKHDapILkbPqgCgq5hKtVEncjnhXq7rk0WKvcDA OCcAoNWgxCWu8Fix8bdz5d6bPLR2Izto =4vOO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Sept. 18, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Happy Software Freedom Day 2010

by Paulo Henrique Santana

Hi people, Happy "Software Freedom Day 2010" for us! We are starting now (1:30 pm) in Curitiba - Brazil. Best Regards, 2010/9/17 Manmohan Brahma <manmohan.brahma(a)gmail.com>: > Dear All, > > Wish you a happy and prosperous "Software Freedom Day 2010" . > > "सॉफ्टवेयर स्वतंत्रता दिवस 2010" Key hardik subh kamnaye. > > Cheers > Manmohan > Open Source Enthusiast , India > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss > > -- Paulo Henrique de Lima Santana http://www.phls.com.br Tel. (41) 9638-1897 GNU/Linux user: 228719 GPG ID: 0443C450 .

Sept. 18, 2010

Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for neophytes moving to GNU/Linux ?...

by don warner saklad

Instructive info with the easiest of learning curves. Where are the simplest easiest to understand instructive materials for neophytes moving to GNU/Linux. Especially weblinks cautious about the use of jargon or explain carefully any jargon used ! For example avoiding the jargon term distros, jargon not used by consumers generally. Meaningful advocating. Advocating is a lot easier and meaningful if it includes how do I setup GNU/Linux now?...

Sept. 18, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Software Freedom Day 2010 Maceió

by Natália Julieta

Live webcast of Software Freedom Day Maceio http://www.livestream.com/sfdmaceio -- Natália Julieta Soares de Souza http://lattes.cnpq.br/4179815655707887 Graduando em Ciência da Computação Instituto de Computação - IC Universidade Federal de Alagoas – UFAL Linux User #475951

Sept. 18, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Difficulties moving to GNU/Linux.

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Hey... well let me rephrase this for: ;-) How much do you care about your Software Freedom: do you want to let the machine/vendor control you or do you want to be in control? How much time and effort are you willing to spend to achieve freedom? I'm just kidding and there is obviously a middle ground, but it also boils down to how much you care. Besides giving up on Software Freedom has long term negative consequences. Fred ps: not sure where you took the quote from, I didn't see it on the mailing list On 09/18/2010 11:18 AM, don warner saklad wrote: >> "All these recommendations assume that you either are an old hand at this sort of thing, or that you are willing to spend some years becoming an old hand. I think what you want is just the opposite. You wish not to become an old hand at dealing with traditional absurd blockages to getting a smooth running system." > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 18, 2010

Difficulties moving to GNU/Linux.

by don warner saklad

> "All these recommendations assume that you either are an old hand at this sort of thing, or that you are willing to spend some years becoming an old hand. I think what you want is just the opposite. You wish not to become an old hand at dealing with traditional absurd blockages to getting a smooth running system."

Sept. 18, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Happy Software Freedom Day 2010

by Manmohan Brahma

Dear All, Wish you a happy and prosperous "Software Freedom Day 2010" . "सॉफ्टवेयर स्वतंत्रता दिवस 2010" Key hardik subh kamnaye. Cheers Manmohan Open Source Enthusiast , India

Sept. 18, 2010

Re: [SFD-discuss] Happy Software Freedom Day 2010

by Frederic Muller - SFI

Hey! Happys SFD too! The counter is finally at that level here as well in China (except we will celebrate it tomorrow because of a conflicting commemoration). Thank you and all the best to Australian teams and all the other teams in the world. Fred On 09/18/2010 08:02 AM, Robert Farrar wrote: > Hello All teams, > > Hope that you all have a Happy Software Freedom Day 2010, we are all in > for a fantastic day I am sure. > > Cheers, > > Robert Farrar > Team Limestone Coast > Australia > > sfd(a)lsclug.org > http://www.lsclug.org > > > _______________________________________________ > SFD-discuss mailing list > SFD-discuss(a)sf-day.org > http://mail.sf-day.org/lists/listinfo/sfd-discuss >

Sept. 18, 2010