[Ubuntu-be] ubuntu courses

[Jan Bongaerts]

The course is made by OpenSchool, a project of the Antwerp Municipality for
adult education. It's really low threshold, for people with little or
no education. They want to bring the computer to any household.
So it's really basic stuff, from switching on to switching off, with lots
of screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

problem is, it's only on Windows. And that for an organisation that calls
itself OpenSchool.
Oh the humanity!

I'd love to make an ubuntu version of it.
Thing is though, Ubuntu has changed its look a couple of times in the past
two years.
So I'm holding off at least until 12.04 before making any screenshots.
Does anyone have an idea of Canonical's intentions with their look for
12.04? I mean, I wouldn't want to spend dozens of manhours to compile all
the necessary screenshots, only to find out that Canonical will come with a
new look again the year after.

Any ideas are welcome. You can write me in person, or, if you want to
discuss this over the phone, ping me and I'll give you my phone number.

Have a look at the zip file wouter shared. It's a hefty 170MB because of
all the graphics, but I think it's a very useful document for the beginning
user.

Once compiled, we could use it for normal schools too.

One of the main reasons why schools don't use anything but Microsoft, is
because there aren't any good books available in the local languages.
If we can compile a work like this, it might make Ubuntu much more
attractive for the schools.

Cheers,
Jan.

On 14 February 2012 09:12, Wouter Vandenneucker <woutervddn at gmail.com>wrote:

> hey guys,
>
> Janb found some courses about basic computing (that are used for adult
> education?) from a local educational center. They're made for windows, but
> it would be great to have them for ubuntu.
> Maybe jan can give some more info?
>
> anyhow, I've uploaded the courses to my webhost (since Drupal wouldn't
> allow me to upload the .zip file..):
> http://vdnkr.be/ubuntu.zip
>
> Grts
>
>
> Wouter
>
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