{"id":3056,"date":"2010-06-12T13:01:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T20:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2016-11-03T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T18:25:00","slug":"instructors-confirmed-for-ubuntu-user-day-on-july-10th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/06\/instructors-confirmed-for-ubuntu-user-day-on-july-10th\/","title":{"rendered":"Instructors Confirmed for Ubuntu User Day on July 10th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/ul\/uud.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu User Day\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week we decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.ubuntu.com\/archives\/ubuntu-classroom\/2010-June\/000192.html\">postpone User Days<\/a> until <strong>Saturday, July 10th<\/strong> so we could get more presenters and let more people know about it. Over this past week <a href=\"http:\/\/justanothertriager.wordpress.com\/\">Nigel Babu<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/chrisjohnston.org\/\">Chris Johnston<\/a> and I worked hard to contact prospective instructors and get the schedule pinned down, which we finished yesterday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule for Saturday, July 10th is as follows (time in UTC):<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Time<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Subject<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Presenter(s)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>09:30<\/td>\n<td>Introduction to User Day<\/td>\n<td>Nigel Babu,<br \/> Chris Johnston &amp;<br \/> Elizabeth Krumbach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10:00<\/td>\n<td>Basic Ubuntu Installation and Setup<\/td>\n<td>Zach Kriesse<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>11:00<\/td>\n<td>Partitioning 101<\/td>\n<td>Alan Bell<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>12:00<\/td>\n<td>Using Ubuntu One<\/td>\n<td>Shrinivasan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>13:00<\/td>\n<td>Gnome-Do<\/td>\n<td>Caspar Clemens Mierau<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>14:00<\/td>\n<td>Package Management Basics<\/td>\n<td>Sense Hofstede<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15:00<\/td>\n<td>Ubuntu Equivalent Programs<\/td>\n<td>Leandro G\u00c3\u00b3mez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>16:00<\/td>\n<td>Getting involved in the Ubuntu Community<\/td>\n<td>Martin Owens<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>17:00<\/td>\n<td>Finding Helpful Resources<\/td>\n<td>Jeremy Pallats<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>18:00<\/td>\n<td>Command Line Basics Part 1<\/td>\n<td>Brandon Holtsclaw<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>19:00<\/td>\n<td>Command Line Basics Part 2<\/td>\n<td>Mark Cox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>20:00<\/td>\n<td>What is a kernel, and why do i need it?<\/td>\n<td>Jeremy Foshee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>21:00<\/td>\n<td>Accessibility Features &#038; Programs<\/td>\n<td>Penelope Stowe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>22:00<\/td>\n<td>Using IRC<\/td>\n<td>Mackenzie Morgan<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>23:00<\/td>\n<td>Trusted Software, Where to find it, and why<\/td>\n<td>Paul Tagliamonte<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>00:00<\/td>\n<td>Using Launchpad<\/td>\n<td>Draycen DeCator<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>01:00<\/td>\n<td>Desktop Environments: Gnome, KDE, XFCE<\/td>\n<td>David Wonderly &amp;<br \/> Elizabeth Krumbach<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>02:00<\/td>\n<td>Choosing hardware that works with Ubuntu<\/td>\n<td>Mathieu Trudel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>These classes will be taught in <strong>#ubuntu-classroom<\/strong> with questions being asked in <strong>#ubuntu-classroom-chat<\/strong> on irc.freenode.net. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UserDays\">http:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UserDays<\/a> for the latest schedule (in case we have any changes from when I post this!) and for more information about the day. You may also be interested in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/calendar\/embed?src=canonical.com_qg6t4s8i7mg8d4lgfu9f93qid4%40group.calendar.google.com\">Ubuntu Learning Events Google Calendar<\/a> which includes the schedule for this and other events, like <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/UbuntuDeveloperWeek\">Ubuntu Developer Week<\/a> which is happening later in July. <\/p>\n<p>Interested in helping out for our next User Days or getting involved in hosting other events in #ubuntu-classroom? Check out our resources on <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Classroom\">http:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Classroom<\/a> and join us for a chat in #ubuntu-classroom-backstage!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we decided to postpone User Days until Saturday, July 10th so we could get more presenters and let more people know about it. Over this past week Nigel Babu, Chris Johnston and I worked hard to contact prospective instructors and get the schedule pinned down, which we finished yesterday afternoon. The schedule for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-tech","category-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3075,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}