We are organizing a weekend long list of events focusing on tools and applications in and around Fedora. All classes will be held in irc @ #fedora-classroom in irc.freenode.net. If you are not familiar with irc, see the Fedora IRC HowTo .
Have a look at the list below, if there is not a session, you'd like to see, please suggest it and we'll do our best to accommodate the request.
The Current Timeline
Pick a time you would like to present and add your name to the list. We'll contact you the day before so leave your contact information as well.
Sessions are approximately 1 hour with a 15 minute break between.
(Note: Check out The World Clock Meeting Planner for timezone syncing.)
| Time (UTC) | March 7 | March 8 |
| 18:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 18:15 UTC | Introduction to bash shell scripting Classroom - Scott McBrien | Using the Windows cross-compiler - Richard Jones |
| 19:30 UTC | Training & Tips for Fedora Ambassadors Classroom -- Max Spevack | No class held |
| 20:45 UTC | Fedora Trademarks Classroom -- Paul W. Frields | Introduction to mock, the chroot package builder -- Kevin Fenzi |
| 22:00 UTC | Perl Basics Classroom -- Doran Barton | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
Suggest a Class
If there is something you'd like to see during Fedora-Classroom sessions, let us know below
- 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
- Using mock
- Networking basics, DHCP, NIS etc for small networks.
- E-mail: server types; transport agents; spam and configuration.
- How to use the fedoraproject.org wiki.
- Beginner's topics on Python like the Perl and Bash ones
- Replace me with a suggestion.
Upcoming Classes (Tentative)
If you can't make the current classes, these might be a good match for you, the times and dates are different and so will the classes. If you wish to present a class and the above list is full, add your name here and the class you'd like to teach.
| Time (UTC) | April 4 | April 5 |
| 10:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions |
| 10:15 UTC | Setting up a Virtual Routing Environment using Fedora and User Mode Linux -- Balaji Gurudass | Introduction to busybox and qemu on fedora -- Balaji Gurudass |
| 11:30 UTC | Introduction to Netlink Sockets - What are they -- Balaji Gurudass | A great class goes here |
| 12:45 UTC | A great class goes here | A great class goes here |
| 14:00 UTC | A great class goes here | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
Classroom Archive
This is the archive of the past Fedora Classroom sessions.
| Time (UTC) | February 8 |
| 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 |
| Time (UTC) | December 6 | December 7 |
| 12:00 UTC | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions - Kevin Fenzi | Introduction to Fedora Classroom and Sessions - Kevin Fenzi |
| 12:15 UTC | Training & Tips for Fedora Ambassadors -- MaxSpevack | Making text exquisite, worldwide — packaging fonts in Fedora — Nicolas Mailhot |
| 13:30 UTC | Intro to Bug Triage Jon Stanley | How to wow your friends with awesome Gimp tricks! Máirín Duffy |
| 14:45 UTC | KDE4 for KDE3 users - Kevin Kofler, Rex Dieter | A great class goes here |
| 16:00 UTC | Creating Logical Volumes - Clint Savage | Fedora Classroom Wrap-up Session |
| Time (UTC) | November 8 | November 9 |
| 20:00 UTC | Clint Savage - SELinux Basics | Kevin Fenzi - Firewall Basics |
| 21:00 UTC | Jon Stanley - An introduction to Bugzilla | Jeroen van Meeuwen - Creating a Fedora Remix |
| 22:00 UTC | Paul W. Frields - Beginner's guide to getting involved | No class scheduled |
| 23:00 UTC | Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams - Package Taxonomy and Techniques | Jeroen van Meeuwen - Configuration Management using Puppet |