Re: [Nolug] Clubhouse Idea

They do most of what you are talking about through ACM. They take up a
little corner of one of the labs. Good luck trying to get an entire
lab, really. ACM has been asking for more room. The Department
doesn't have enough rooms themselves. That is the Math building, not
the Computer Science Building.

The 24 hour lab has Sun systems with Gnome and KDE installed for the CS
students. Most of these guys are already running Linux, of some sort,
on their home PCs. I think that is the lab with the cluster as well,
if not it's in one of the other two labs.

On the other hand, the Engineering building is 9 floors. 2 of which
are offices, 1 is for class rooms, and the rest "LAB SPACE." Getting
support from IEEE folks is probably your best shot. They have got 2
labs themselves, and they are playing with FreeBSD on some of their
machines already. The College has to maintain ABET certification, so
teaching is out unless you have a Phd. They also have swipe cards to
get in the building so we could avoid involving UNO Police.

The CS department already has similar classes available. Sorry to
sound so negative, just trying to put a little reality to the idea.

On Thursday, September 4, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Chris Reames wrote:

> Scott,
> Can you talk to UNO about a Classroom.
> If we could setup a Linux Lab in a permanent room, we could have
> meetings
> and possibly teach introductory Linux classes.
> We need a room that can be accessed after work. It wouldn't help much
> if we
> couldn't get in after 5:00pm.
> Ideally, we would want 24/7 access. Maybe with campus police entry
> between
> 7:00pm and 7:00am.
>
> I think if we can pitch the Teaching Linux idea, we may have a shot.
> Beginners Class:
> We could start with installing and configuring X-windows
> Introduction to KDE, Gnome, etc.
> navigation,
> running programs,
> locating and installing basic packages,
> Basic Firewall configuration in x-windows,
> Basic Apache configuration in x-windows,
> Basic Sendmail(postfix) in x-windows.
> The usual things most people will use x-windows for.
>
> Intermediate Class:
> We could start with installing and reconfiguring X-windows adding
> devices
> etc.
> running programs from command line,
> locating and installing packages,
> Using vi, grep, chown, chmod, man pages, nslookup etc.
> Command line Firewall configuration,
> Advanced Apache configuration with JAVA support etc.,
> FTP server and user directories.
> DNS & Sendmail(postfix)as mail server.
> The usual things most people will use.
>
> Advanced Class:
> Complete command line installation.
> configuring hardware components,
> installing packages,
> edit firewall files,
> edit apache files,
> edit dns files,
> edit sendmail(postfix) files,
> setup ftp server and user directories.
>
> Extreme Class:
> All the fun stuff Hunter would do to get us in trouble.
> Oh, and lets not forget BMACs CD Server for his MP3 collection (did he
> ever
> get that to work?)
> This is where we would do Wireless configurations,
> clusters (drool)
> building linux from a kernel
> etc.
> Basically, this would be the monthly meetings with all the wierd and
> wonderful ideas we geeks come up with.
> (like building a linux distro that will hack and run windows programs
> like
> office, GAMES, other 'productivity' things)
>
> Well, thats all the thoughts I have time for. (no more thinking for
> the
> rest of the day)
> If nothing else, maybe this scale will help up figure out where our
> group
> fits.
> I personally feel I'm in the Intermediate category.
>
> Thanks for your time.
> Chris
>
>
> Todays Fortune Cookie: Work on ideas that are creative and can bring
> fine
> results.
>
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