The Fedora Join SIG is proud to announce Classroom sessions. The Fedora Classroom is a project to teach interested users how to better use, understand and manage their Fedora system, and to show how the community works. The idea is to reach interested people and, if they desire, bring them closer to the Fedora community.
Almost all classes will be held on IRC in the #fedora-classroom channel on Freenode (irc.freenode.net). If you’re not familiar with IRC, check out the Beginner’s guide to IRC. Also we’ll use BlueJeans, a video conferencing platform that works from browsers, mobile devices and a desktop application. If you have trouble connecting to Blue Jeans, please refer to the support page.
The schedule
The following Classroom sessions are currently scheduled (subject to change):
| Date | Time (UTC) | Class topic and Instructor |
| 2017-07-28 | 13:00 UTC – 14:30 UTC | FOSS 101 – David Kaspar |
| 2017-08-04 | 15:00 UTC – 16:00 UTC | Fedora Magazine 101 – Eduard Lucena |
| 2017-08-07 – 2017-08-11 | TBD | Command line 101 – Ankur Sinha “FranciscoD” |
| 2017-08-14 – 2017-08-18 | TBD | VIM 101 – Eduard Lucena/Ankur Sinha “FranciscoD” |
| 2017-08-21 – 2017-08-25 | TBD | Emacs 101 – Sachin Patil |
| 2017-08-28 – 2017-09-01 | TBD | Fedora QA 101 – Sumantro Mukherjee/Amita Sharma |
| 2017-09-04 – 2017-09-08 | TBD | Git 101 – Ankur Sinha “FranciscoD” |
| 2017-09-11 – 2017-09-15 | TBD | Fedora packaging 101 – Ankur Sinha “FranciscoD” |
This week’s session
Here are details about this Friday’s upcoming session.
Instructor
David Kašpar (a.k.a. Dee’Kej) started working for Red Hat as an intern in Quality Engineering in 2012. Nowadays, he’s a package maintainer for both Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In addition, he’s also a strong believer in free/libre and open source software principles, advocating for their usage even outside the IT industry. He regularly introduces students to meritocracy, the open source world, and the so-called Open Source Way. But he has other big passions as well — music, gaming and capoeira (Brazilian martial arts).
Topic: FOSS 101
A fly-through the history of Free/Libre & Open Source (FOSS) to let you know how it all started, how did it go, what have we achieved so far, and what can we expect in the future.
Joining the session
This session will be held via BlueJeans. The following information will help you join the session:
- URL: https://bluejeans.com/552667768/4789
- Meeting ID (if needed): 552667768
- Participant Passcode (to be able to join): 4789
We hope you can attend and enjoy this experience from some of the people that work in the Fedora Project.
Photograph used in feature image is San Simeon School House by Anita Ritenour — CC-BY 2.0
Oleg Pykhalov
Hello. Will video archive available for download?
Eduard Lucena
Yes it will be. In a next update we will share the links for videos and logs (some of the sessions are intended to happens at IRC)
Oleg Pykhalov
OK, will they be posted on magazine or where? Thanks.
Ankit
Where are the videos ?
Noel
This is a great idea!
Jonas
Thanks for adding the classrooms events in Fedora Calendar! https://apps.fedoraproject.org/calendar/classroom/
Eduard Lucena
Great idea! I will put them there!
murph
Sadly, you can’t listen in without enabling microphone and/or camera?
Since I can’t do this at work, I cannot attend. I hope it will be recorded for later viewing.
Paul W. Frields
You are supposed to be able to listen in on a camera/mic-less system. Simply join without enabling them (whether they exist on your system or not, it won’t matter). I tested this on a F26 system with no camera or mic, and it worked OK.
David Phelps
Are they going to post the Videos at a later time, as I missed the live session?
Thanks
skamath
Hi David,
Yes, it will be. We will be posting it on the Classroom wiki page as soon as it is processed.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
Sergio
Why would they use some ‘free trial’ sort of software for video conferencing instead of Jitsi?
Sachin S. Kamath
We’re working on it. We are trying to setup Jitsi on our servers. We did not use jitsi.org because we couldn’t find their data policy anywhere.
Sachin S. Kamath
Hi David,
Yes, it will be. We will be posting it on the Classroom wiki page as soon as it is processed.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Classroom
me
Love the idea but don’t you think that time frame is quite difficult for most people, as it is during the typical work or school day.?.?
Paul W. Frields
Timezones differ — remember that Fedora is used by people all over the world. However, we are asking the Classroom providers to do audio/video recordings they can share, so if you can’t make it, you can catch up with the recording later.