LuftHans Free Software in 3-D

BPC110 is an online class covering an introduction to the OpenOffice.org application suite. It starts August 25th, so sign up now.

Students will be learning OpenOffice.org applications with practical, hands-on exercises and assignments. There will be an emphasis on word processing, spreadsheets, databases and presentation software. Each topic will be covered for about 3 weeks.

Many of the Insignia portable music players available from Best Buy play ogg vorbis!

Paintball was fun. We had a mix of people. It was also a good opportunity to give Kevin a bit of a send off and hope it's the last time he's shot at in the next few years.

tunys was in to represent the Avondale Stammtisch and schlepped his Lojban book with him. We should've gotten him to yell out war cries in Lojban :).

The indoor facility is nice and the appropriate place for summer games in Phoenix, but we should try one of the outdoor facilities in late Fall.

Some PLUG and LOPSA-US-AZ members will be meeting to play paintball at noon on June 14th. The event is open to anyone who wants to join us. We can get up to 30 people on the group reservation, but the facility can accomodate more.

See the Xtreme Pursuit group rate page to see what you get for $25. We'll certainly be needing to buy more ammo as well.

We've got lot's of activities coming up.

GNU/Linux security class starting the first week of June.

The Ubuntu desktop class continues on Wednesday at the west side meeting.

Geek paintball at xtreme-pursuit at noon on June 14th. We're working on a group rate, so contact me if you'd like to participate.

Meerkat Manor is coming back! After Animal Planet seemed to drop the show, it's great to see not only season 4, but a new special!

It all starts 2008May25 with Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins. It looks like that's a restaging of Flower's youth. I wonder if the delay was due to the meerkat actors being on a sympathy strike with the writers guild. After the movie is a special on the making of the movie.

Mesa Community College is offering a couple "Free Software" classes this summer. They're 8 week classes at the Business and Industry Institute. Both classes start at the beginning of June and run through the end of July.

Call the Business and Industry Institute, 480 461 6100, and ask for Jessica in order to register for classes. BII is closed Fridays during the summer, so call Monday through Thursday.

Mesa Community College Network Academy
CIS271DL – GNU/Linux Security

Mondays and Wednesdays
18:00 – 21:30
2008Jun02 - 2008Jul23

Call the Business and Industry Institute, 480 461 6100, and ask for Jessica in order to register for classes.

Security Resources

• documentation
  • Linux Security
  • The Paranoid Penguin
  • RFCs
    

The Arizona LoCo is hosting InstallFests on Saturday, May 17th.

See the flyer for more info.

Both InstallFests are from 13:00 to 16:00.

The Phoenix InstallFest is at the First Baptist Church of Peoria in the basketball gym. 8133 W. Cactus Road, Peoria, AZ 85318

The Tucson location is still TBD.

Mesa Community College Network Academy
CIS126DL – GNU/Linux Operating System

Section 0003-L+L(17469), fka #7986
18:00 - 21:30 Tuesdays and Thursdays
2008Mar18 – 2008May08

A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux: Fedora Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Mark G. Sobell, Prentice Hall
(ISBN-0-13-228027-2)

Homework

Assignment 1 is attached below.
Assignment 2, a partial study guide for test 2 is attached below.

Take Home Exam

Test 3 is attached below.