LuftHans Free Software in 3-D

The Fall semester starts next week for the community colleges. Lots of Free Software classes being offered.

Here are the results for a search for Linux that nets 42 classes and 17 different courses.

Mesa Community College Network Academy
CIS239 - GNU/Linux Shell Scripting

Mondays and Wednesdays
18:00 - 21:30
starts 2008Aug25

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

Section number 15782 of BPC110 is an online class covering an introduction to the OpenOffice.org application suite. It starts August 25th, so sign up now.

The class is full! That's great news for education about Free Software. The class limit is higher than it was supposed to be, so there are still a few extra slots left. Sign up now if you want to take the class.

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.

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
    

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

Dennis is now teaching this class. It runs about every 8 weeks starting in late August. It runs once during the summer.

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

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