Courses

This is an archived site. Information is out of date, site functionality is greatly reduced (no search, etc.), some links are broken and email addresses have been replaced with "address removed". Please see the current LinuxChix site for up to date information. This site will eventually be removed.

One of the activities of LinuxChix is to run online courses on a variety of subjects on both technical and non-technical subjects. Courses are run on the Courses mailing list; subscribe to that list to participate.

Current courses

None. (But we have several courses that might be starting up in summer or fall 2015.)

Starting a new course

Any linuxchix member is welcome to run a course. Courses can be as long or as short as you want, but you might want to check out the archived courses to get an idea of what's been run in the past. That doesn't mean you can't do something different, but it does give you an idea of what's worked before.

Typically, the first thing to do is to determine if there's enough interest by asking on the mailing lists. Either the grrltalk mailing list is usually the best place to ask and discuss things before your course starts, since not as many people subscribe to the courses mailing list unless there's a course they want to take. If there's enough interest, send a message to the volunteers mailing list to make sure that the admins for the courses mailing list can set up a subject tag for your use, and the Moodle admins can set up a new course for you. Announce your new course to the announce mailing list and give people a few days to subscribe and/or familiarize themselves with Moodle, then start posting lessons and running your course!

Some hints: shorter lessons are easier for people to fit into their spare time, so try to make at least your first few lessons fairly short. And if you want feedback and/or discussion, don't be afraid to ask for it!

A sampling of past Courses

Beginning Programming in Python
Akkana Peck
Spineful Living
Carla Schroder
GIMP
Akkana Peck
Tools for Participating in Free Software
Mary Gardiner
Linux Commands
Carla Schroder
Firewalls
Devdas Bhagat
C programming
Mary Gardiner
LaTeX
Isabelle Hurbain
Kernel Hacking
Val Henson and Sonja Krause-Harder
Programming Basics
Sonja Krause-Harder and Karen Hall
Security
Raven Alder and Katie Bechtold
Basic Networking
Hamster
Unix File Systems
Meredydd Luff
Perl
Dan Richter
Using PostgreSQL
Michelle Murrain

See all archived courses.