LuftHans Free Software in 3-D

I teach a few classes at Mesa Community College's Business and Industry Institute in downtown Mesa.

Sign up now for fall classes starting at the end of August.

Upcoming classes:

• OpenOffice.org - Michelle teaches this inexpensive, online class through MCC's main campus
• Introduction to GNU/Linux - Dennis teaches this class.
• GNU/Linux Shell Scripting

I'm really excited about the OpenOffice.org class. It's great that MCC is supporting an opportunity for people to learn a Free Software office suite.

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

The community colleges teach a lot of GNU/Linux classes. They also have C++, Perl and PHP classes. They have others, but finding them can be difficult.

• Introduction to GNU/Linux - Dennis is taking this class. It usually runs Tuesday and Thursday night and starts about every two months. starts end of August
• Introduction to GNU/Linux System Administration
• GNU/Linux Networking Administration
• GNU/Linux Security
• GNU/Linux Shell Scripting starts end of August

GNU/Linux Networking Administration, CIS240DL, covers common services such as web(apache), mail, DNS, samba and SSH for GNU/Linux. Most of those services are operating system independent, so the class will also mostly apply to other *NIXen such as *BSD and Solaris. It will run again in January 2009.

There will be an OpenOffice.org online class at MCC's main campus in the Fall. Students don't need to be in Phoenix for this one.

I am also the chair for LOPSA's education committee. Watch for our classes at Ohio Linux Fest in October 2008 and SCaLE in February 2009.

Here are some Free Software and system administration groups in Phoenix.

• Phoenix Linux Users Group
• LOPSA-US-AZ ( system administration group )
• Arizona LoCo ( Ubuntu group )
• ASU Linux Users Group
• AzPHP