From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sat Apr 20 3:31: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp013.mail.yahoo.com (smtp013.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EE3C237B404 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 03:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from unknown (HELO warhawk) (wyldephyre2@202.1.200.44 with login) by smtp.mail.vip.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Apr 2002 10:30:35 -0000 From: "Haikal Saadh" To: "'Oddbjorn Steffensen'" Cc: "'Michael Lucas'" , "'Jeremy C. Reed'" , Subject: RE: A BSD intro at Bellingham, Washington Linuxfest 2002 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:30:00 +0500 Message-ID: <000301c1e856$5c50b870$2cc801ca@warhawk> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2616 In-Reply-To: <20020420090938.GA23940@tricknology.org> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > -----Original Message----- > From: Oddbjorn Steffensen [mailto:oddbjorn@tricknology.org] > Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 2:10 PM > To: Haikal Saadh > Cc: 'Michael Lucas'; 'Jeremy C. Reed'; advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: A BSD intro at Bellingham, Washington Linuxfest 2002 > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 11:30:50AM +0500, Haikal Saadh wrote: > > I've got something like this...I've been working on a 'crash course' for > > freebsd, and most of the material is summarized from the handbook. If > > anyone's interested, I can make it available. It's in powerpoint at the > > moment, but I can convert to html if needed. > > I think it would be a good idea to use the docbook slides DTD by > Norman Walsh for this, provided that the output is flexible enough. > I plan to convert my slides to this format as a test, and if the > document project approve, this could be put into CVS for coordinated > development. > Agreed. Although I know only about 1/2 an hour's worth of docbook, but if anyone volunteers to mark stuff up , it'd be great. My intention has always been to donate my material to the docproj, (if they want it) > I suggest that we try to coordinate the efforts -- my slides are > focused on giving a broad overview, and would likely be nicely > complemented by a more hands-on approach based upon the handbook. > Yeah, I've got a lecture aimed for beginners to unix, an explanation of the filesystem, as well as step by step howto's for some sysadminning tasks (adding users, cron jobs etc). I've also go stuff on squid, bind8, isc-dhcpd3, and IPFirewall. If anyone wants me to write more material, I'm willing, as long as it's within my knowledge > Do you have a reference to your material? Not just yet, unfortunately, but I can upload them to the web when I get back to work tomorrow. Cheers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use iQA/AwUBPMFDKBY2HTS0XwU2EQKwHQCeMrmx87iaJUpEMtSxL23imue25VcAnRfG gj7dqWAkyXgzscSMjhne2Lev =9Sbg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message