Tony Yarusso's Blog

All righty, so while most of the tech world has already noticed, I'm still taking this opportunity to continue my encouragement for my original readership to take a harder look at open source software and its associated communities. Yes, that means you everyone reading from Xanga. As a bit of background, last fall when Ubuntu 6.10 (codenamed "Edgy Eft") was released, the Ubuntu community held a week of introductory sessions on various topics, ranging from what on earth this whole Ubuntu thing was all about to getting involved with development, and everything in between. With the release of Ubuntu 7.04 ("Feisty Fawn"), we're doing it again. These sessions are not the sort of thing that you need to be a full-fledged coding geek to understand, and frankly, those people would only benefit from a handful of them really, as the week is aimed at taking people without various kinds of experience and helping them get more answers, more knowledge, or more involvement. If you're mildly curious about Ubuntu and Linux, but still a bit intimidated by the concept (since you've never seen it on your school computer lab, most likely), this is your chance to put some questions to rest. Also good for folks who have popped the CD in, or maybe even installed, but don't yet know where to go for support, how to file a bug, or who they can hang out with to talk about how cool it is.If you're starting completely from scratch and haven't heard me describe what Ubuntu is before, take a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/products/WhatIsUbuntu.

"Okay, you have my attention. So when are you going to tell us what and when the session are?"

Well, I actually don't need to say much, since Melissa totally beat me to it. The full info about the week is being kept on the wiki, at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek. I know IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is new to many of you, so there is help on that linked to from the "Joining In" page, as well as links to clients for those of you using Windows but trying to find out about Ubuntu. Logs will be posted if you can't make a session, but note that many sessions are happening twice to make scheduling more convenient. I go by tonyyarusso and am in many channels (including ##tonyyarusso, with two hashes) if you have questions for me, and hope to see you in #ubuntu-classroom with your questions for all of the great session leaders!