training
In Defense of a Linux Education
For some reason, Linux and education seem to go hand-in-hand. Some of the benefits of Linux make the association between the two very natural. First, it’s feature-rich - there are even several distributions targeted specifically toward education. Second, of course, it’s free – educational resources are not cheap, regardless if the school is public or private, and any price break is welcome. There is, however, the ever-present argument that the real world uses Microsoft products, therefore Microsoft products are what children should be taught in school. As the good people at The Linux Journal point out, it’s much more important to teach the concepts, than to teach just the applications.
DrupalCamp Vancouver 2008: CivicActions Sessions Selected
Earlier this weekDrupalCamp Vancouver Sessions were announced and 2 by CivicActioners were among them. Robin's session on "Introduction To Module Development" will be on Friday and 2pm. I heard Robin give a this talk for Six Hour Startup folks a few weeks ago, and even though I am no developer, it sounded great and others seemed to benefit from it.
Why I Wish I Was Going To The Social Tech Training
When I heard about the Social Tech Training being organized by our friends over at Web Of Change it sounded awesome. As the agenda and speakers came out, my expectations were confirmed.
Training Six Hour Startup On Drupal
Yesterday Robin Barre and I spent some time down at the Saturday House in SoDo (in Seattle) training folks involved in Six Hour Startup on Drupal for an upcoming project called SiteFinder. SiteFinder will be a community maintained listing service for available office space geared towards startups.
