Introduction
The Fedora Classroom is a project to teach interested users of Fedora how to better use, understand and manage their Distribution. Currently, All classes are held on IRC in the #fedora-classroom on irc.freenode.net. If you are not familiar with IRC, see the Fedora IRC HowTo .
If there is a session you would like to see, please suggest it and we'll do our best to accommodate the request.
Upcoming Classes
These are the classes that are scheduled currently. Make sure and check the UTC time and date for the class you wish to attend.
Find out your local time.
| Date and Time (UTC) | Class topic and Instructor |
| 30 April, 2010 at 12:30 UTC (6:00 PM IST) | A Short Tutorial On i18n Through gettext - Naveen Kumar |
| 03 May, 2010 at 13:30 UTC (7:00 PM IST) | Introductory workshop on GNU Autotools - Siddhesh Poyarekar |
| 10 May, 2010 at 01:00 UTC | Learn about exciting Fedora 13 Features - Kevin Fenzi |
Mailing List
For discussion and feedback or to sign up to teach a class, use the Classroom mailing list at:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/classroom
Help wanted
If you would like to help out the Fedora Classroom effort, we are currently looking for assistance in several areas. Please see the Classroom Help Wanted Page.
Teaching a class
If you would like to teach a class on any Fedora related topic, please mail an introduction of yourself and outline of your proposed class to the classroom mailing list. Some things to keep in mind:
- We recommend sessions be approximately 90 minutes This allows for an hour long session and enough time for questions and answers.
- Make sure you know your subject and know where to point students who wish more detailed information.
- Note at the beginning of your class if you would like students to ask questions as you go, or would prefer them to wait until the end.
- Remember that typing is slower than talking in front of a class or speaking on a phone call, so keep in mind you will not cover as much on IRC.
(Note: Check out The World Clock Meeting Planner for time zone syncing.)
Suggest a Class
If there is something you'd like to see during Fedora-Classroom sessions, let us know below, or mail your suggestions to the mailing list.
- A Moodle install for Fedora Classroom.
- Beginner's Guide to SystemTap
- A short introduction to Bug Triaging (with some examples of untriaged bugs)
- Testing/QA of the Fedora Desktop
- Intermediate SELinux topics (follow-up to previous beginner topics)
- Introduction to gconftool-2 and configuring the GNOME desktop from config files
- How to use the fedoraproject.org wiki.
- Beginner's topics on Python like the Perl and Bash ones
- Setting up a local server with Apache,DNS, Mail, basics of LAMP
- Basics of kernel development, modules
- Writing patches, device driver modules for beginners
- Bacula HowTo
- Directory Server HowTo
- Networking Server HowTo (DNS, DHCP, iptables, etc)
- A crontab tutorial
Classroom Archive
This is the archive of the past Fedora Classroom sessions:
April 29 2010 (20100429)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2010-04-29 -- 0100 UTC |
April 27 2010 (20100427)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2010-04-27 -- 1900 UTC |
How to make life awesome for journalists -- Joe "Zonker" Brockmeier |
April 16 2010 (20100416)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2010-04-16 -- 1330 UTC |
January 23 2010 (20100123)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2010-01-23 -- 2330 UTC |
Ambassadors tips and training for LATAM -- Neville A. Cross & Maria Leandro |
January 7 2010 (20100107)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2010-01-07 -- 0200 UTC | |
| 2010-01-07 -- 1500 UTC | Ambassadors tips and training -- MaxSpevack |
January 6 2010 (20100106)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2010-01-06 -- 1500 UTC | Packaging Sugar Activities -- SebastianDziallas |
December 8 2009 (20091208)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-12-08 02:00 UTC | How to report bugs to the Fedora Project -- Kevin Fenzi |
November 17 2009 (20091117)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-11-17 14:00 UTC | Secure Virtualization sVirt -- Dan Walsh |
November 16 2009 (20091116)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-11-16 00:00 UTC | E-mail: server types; transport agents; spam and configuration. -- Kevin Fenzi |
November 10 2009 (20091110)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-11-10 20:30 UTC | How to monitor PR for a release -- Kara Schiltz |
September 29 2009 (20090929)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-09-29 01:00 UTC | Upcoming Fedora 12 Features overview -- Kevin Fenzi |
August 18 2009 (20090818)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-08-19 01:00 UTC | An Introduction to the command line -- Kevin Fenzi |
August 05 2009 (20090805)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-08-05 01:00 UTC | An intro to rsync -- Jon Stanley |
| 2009-08-05 02:00 UTC | Introduction to Koji (build system) and Bodhi (updates system) in Fedora infrastructure (End user perspective) -- Rahul Sundaram |
July 30 2009 (20090730)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-07-30 01:00 UTC | A tour of the Xfce desktop -- Kevin Fenzi |
July 21 2009 (20090721)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-07-21 01:00 UTC | Using preupgrade -- Kevin Fenzi |
July 12 2009 (20090712)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 2009-07-12 10:15 UTC | Kernel Modules -- Balaji Gurudass |
June 7 2009 (20090607)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| ~15 minutes prior to first session | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 06:00 UTC | Basics of kernel development, Kernel modules -- Balaji Gurudass |
| 10:15 UTC | Writing a Networking Driver -- Balaji Gurudass |
| 19:00 UTC | Fedora 11 Features, Questions and Answers -- Kevin Fenzi |
May 3 2009 (20090503)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| ~15 minutes prior to first session 03:45 UTC |
Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 04:00 UTC | Basics of kernel development, Kernel modules -- -- Balaji Gurudass Cancelled due to internet connectivity issues |
| 06:00 UTC | Fedora Ambassador Tips & Training -- MaxSpevack |
| 13:00 UTC | What is SELinux trying to tell me? - The 4 key causes of SELinux errors -- Dwalsh |
| 19:00 UTC | Introduction to libvirt - The virtual machine manager -- Kevin Fenzi |
April 5 2009 (20090405)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 10:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 10:15 UTC | Introduction to busybox and QEMU on Fedora -- Balaji Gurudass |
| 11:30 UTC | Building RPM packages - Christoph Wickert (more info) |
| 12:45 UTC | Fedora Networking Basics -- Kevin Fenzi |
| 14:00 UTC | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
April 4 2009 (20090404)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 10:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 10:15 UTC | Setting up a Virtual Routing Environment using Fedora and User Mode Linux -- Balaji Gurudass |
| 11:30 UTC | Introduction to Netlink Sockets - What are they? -- Balaji Gurudass |
March 8 2009 (20090308)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 18:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 18:15 UTC | Using the Windows cross-compiler - Richard Jones |
| 20:45 UTC | Introduction to mock, the chroot package builder -- Kevin Fenzi |
| 22:00 UTC | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
March 7 2009 (20090307)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 18:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 18:15 UTC | Introduction to bash shell scripting Classroom - Scott McBrien |
| 19:30 UTC | Training & Tips for Fedora Ambassadors Classroom -- Max Spevack |
| 20:45 UTC | Fedora Trademarks Classroom -- Paul W. Frields |
| 22:00 UTC | Perl Basics Classroom -- Doran Barton |
February 8 2009 (20090208)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 01:30 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 01:45 UTC | Understanding RPM - The engine behind yum - Clint Savage |
| 03:00 UTC | Using Yum - Tricks and tips - Kevin Fenzi |
| 04:15 UTC | Fedora 11 Features - Jon Stanley |
| 05:30 UTC | Fedora i18n - Jens Petersen |
| 06:30 UTC | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
December 7 2008 (20081207)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 12:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions - Kevin Fenzi |
| 12:15 UTC | Making text exquisite, worldwide — packaging fonts in Fedora — Nicolas Mailhot |
| 13:30 UTC | How to wow your friends with awesome Gimp tricks! Máirín Duffy |
| 16:00 UTC | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
December 6 2008 (20081206)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 12:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions - Kevin Fenzi |
| 12:15 UTC | Training & Tips for Fedora Ambassadors -- MaxSpevack |
| 13:30 UTC | Intro to Bug Triage Jon Stanley |
| 14:45 UTC | KDE4 for KDE3 users - Kevin Kofler, Rex Dieter |
| 16:00 UTC | Creating Logical Volumes - Clint Savage |
November 9 2008 (20081109)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 20:00 UTC | Firewall Basics - Kevin Fenzi |
| 21:00 UTC | Creating a Fedora Remix - Jeroen van Meeuwen |
| 23:00 UTC | Configuration Management using Puppet - Jeroen van Meeuwen |
November 8 2008 (20081108)
| Time (UTC) | Session Name -- Instructor |
| 20:00 UTC | SELinux Basics - Clint Savage |
| 21:00 UTC | An introduction to Bugzilla - Jon Stanley |
| 22:00 UTC | Beginner's guide to getting involved - Paul W. Frields |
| 23:00 UTC | Package Taxonomy and Techniques - Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams |