Matt, Thanks for all your help last night, I appreciate the info that you gave me. Speaking as a newbie, I couldn't agree more regarding the need for basic fundamental training. I would certainly want to know as much as I can regarding Linux and how to be the most productive with it. I actually came early yesterday in hopes of doing exactly that, but there wasn't any training so I did talk to you and Rick, (the other guy in the room). I did gain a little knowledge at that time, but not as much as a training session of some type would've offered. Just my $.02 worth. Ben Chacko benchacko@earthlink.net nism096@hotmail.com Message: 11 Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 23:10:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Alexander To: Subject: PLUG presentations/training Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us After talking with several people tonight, it occured to me how important it is for this group to provide training to its members. I'd be willing to take the initiative and start teaching classes on a variety of Linux topics. For example, I could easily give introductory sessions on the following topics: Linux user fundamentals Setting up an Apache webserver Setting up a DNS server Setting up a Samba file/print server System monitoring with Big Brother I'm sure there are many other topics I could handle as well, but this could be a start. Maybe we could even have a "fundamentals" session before every regular meeting, that way new users would know that they could come to any PLUG meeting and learn the basics, and then stay for the main topic afterwards if they're interested. I know there's a lot of interest in Linux out there, but it can be pretty overwhelming at first to a new user, particularly if they've never been exposed to *nix before. ~M