[Chixla] Memorial Day Weekend meeting

[Stephen Carter]

I'm a new person, so my "vote" shouldn't really count. I'll do my best 
to make the meeting if it is indeed held on Sunday May 29th, but it 
won't hurt my feeling one bit if I don't have t make the decision, and 
it is put off until June 26th.
The curriculum  for the tutorial classes is very similar to the I the 
distance learning Linux SysAdmin course I'm taking that O'Reilly 
"sponsors"-- http://oreilly.useractive.com/courses/sysadmin.php3 
--which is WAY too expensive for what a person gets.
While the course has the good feature of an online "sandbox" server 
where one can experiment, and guidance to do so, the course material 
itself is so-so--not bad, just not what it could, and some day will, 
be. I think every thing could be better obtained by tutorials such as 
the one LinuxChixLA is doing, other free online material, a few books, 
subscription to some of the user group mailing lists for "live" help. 
The SMC course Sharon has mentioned sounds pretty good as well. So, 
lot's of local/internet resources, and I don't see anything in the 
expensive that isn't easily available--there's nothing special there.
BUT Wait! In addition to everything else, on completion the loyal 
student gets a very nice certificate from the University of Illinois 
and CEU's for those who can make use of them, or for whom they are 
required. On the other hand, our now living-below-the-poverty-line 
student might just as well take publicly available tests and get Linux 
Certification, which might be even more useful than the above touted 
Certificate.
So I'm looking forward to the LinuxChix sessions on SysAdmin.....not to 
mention moving on to actual applications. I've just seen OpenOffice for 
the first time, and it looks wonderful!
Steve Carter
On May 27, 2005, at 3:23 PM, SMichelle wrote:
> OK, so the only people I've heard from are those who do not want to
> meeting on Memorial Day weekend, even if that means that there is no
> meeting until the June meeting on the 26th.
>
> The decision to cancel the Sunday May 29th meeting will be by majority
> ... so if you want to get together this Sunday now would be the time to
> speak up :)
>
> /SMichelle
>
>
>> Thank you all for being so understanding about the rescheduled meeting
>> of last Sunday (term paper turned in, test results only so-so).
>>
>> However, there is a wrinkle for the meeting this Sunday as this is
>> Memorial Day weekend. This is apparently causing some problems for
>> some people who want to make the meeting, but have family BBQ
>> commitments. I can be there, but how much of a problem is this for
>> everyone else?
>>
>> If this is a problem for enough people, then the possibility is that
>> the meeting will need to rescheduled ... note that I'm not available
>> for the next few week following this Sunday due to finals.
>>
>> So please let me know your preference and/or suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> /SMichelle
>>
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