SCALE 10x - 2012 Southern California Linux Expo - Beginner

Linux Beginner Training - Day 2

ron — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:29:57 +0000

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SCALE is proud to present their first ever Linux Beginner training class! It's an intensive, two-day training class the same weekend as the Linux Expo, co-located with the Expo at the LAX Hilton.

Presented by volunteer trainers and presenters, students will come away with the ability to install and maintain a Linux operating system.

Cost of the class is 25 dollars, which includes a bootable USB thumb drive, handouts, and a pass to the Linux Expo floor. Note: Access to other Saturday & Sunday tracks is not included because the training class will occupy all of both Saturday and Sunday).

Attendees are expected to bring a computer suitable for installing Linux. Laptops are encouraged but desktops are acceptable also. Installations will be Linux-only; dual-booting is beyond the scope of this class. So bring a computer you can dedicate to Linux.

For more information see the online syllabus.

Linux Beginner Training - Day 1

ron — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:27:21 +0000

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Beginner

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Beginner Tutorials

SCALE is proud to present their first ever Linux Beginner training class! It's an intensive, two-day training class the same weekend as the Linux Expo, co-located with the Expo at the LAX Hilton.

Presented by volunteer trainers and presenters, students will come away with the ability to install and maintain a Linux operating system.

For more information see the online syllabus.

MySQL to PostgreSQL migration

dmurthy — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:01:48 +0000

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Beginner

Developer

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PostgreSQL

Every one in the industry is looking for change from one database to another, there are many different solutions to migrate MySQL to PostgreSQL database, mysql2psql Ruby gem is one of the open source software, that is simple and does successful migration. It provides various options and a simple solution to migrate a MySQL database to PostgreSQL database. In this session I will demonstrate step by step MySQL database migration to PostgreSQL database (small database). Note I am not part of the development team of this this software, I am demonstrating to show the benefits of this software and also this session is intended to for small and medium sized database Outcome of the session the audience would be able to do a MySQL to PostgreSQL migration on their own with no difficulty.

Presentation Slides:

MySQL to Postgres Migration.pdf

The Power User's Guide to Unity

jorge — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:54:40 +0000

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Beginner

Intermediate

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Ubucon

Unity is the new desktop for Ubuntu, and like all new things there are tips and tricks on how to use it that can be useful for getting things accomplished. Join me as I explore using this desktop with an eye on power user techniques and show you all the nooks and crannies of Unity.

Getting involved with Ubuntu

pleia2 — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:39:07 +0000

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Beginner

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Ubucon

Interested in getting involved with Ubuntu but not sure where to start? This talk will provide an overview of popular involvement avenues including development, documentation, artwork, promotion and evangelism to get you pointed in the right direction and will be open to specific involvement questions from the audience. It will also cover general tips for getting the most out of your involvement in the Ubuntu community.

Presentation Slides:

Getting_Involved_with_Ubuntu-SCALE10x_Ubucon.pdf

Giving Linux a boot

CandaceGonzales — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:38:47 +0000

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Beginner

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General

There are many aspects of the Linux boot process developers should consider. This presentation covers all facets of the boot process from power up to running a user application beginning with ROM boot loader progressing through secondary program loader, u-boot, kernel and finishing with user-level initialization. Learn more about the Linux boot process first hand with a live demonstration on one of the popular BeagleBoard.org open source platforms.

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giving_linux_a_boot_scale10x.odp

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SELinux for Mere Mortals (or, "Don't Turn It Off")

thomascameron — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:10:39 +0000

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Beginner

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SysAdmin

While Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is an incredibly powerful tool for securing Linux servers, it has historically had a reputation for being difficult to configure, and as a result many system administrators would simply turn it off. Fortunately, the incredible amount of work done by the SELinux community in recent years has made SELinux much more system administrator-friendly. In this session, attendees will learn the basics of SELinux, which include configuring, analyzing, and correcting SELinux errors, as well writing basic policies to enable non-SELinux aware applications to work on SELinux protected systems. Real-world examples will be used to better demonstrate how to use SELinux.

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POSSE intensive -- a cultural immersion workshop

sdziallas — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:02:27 +0000

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Beginner

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Open Source Software In Education

POSSE (Professors’ Open Source Summer Experience) is a one-week bootcamp initially designed in 2009 for university professors who needed to learn the workings of the world they were about to plunge their students into. See http://opensource.com/education/10/9/open-source-education-educators for more details on the original workshop. Since then, we’ve run it in 3 continents for faculty from institutions ranging from small liberal arts schools to large public universities to selective technical colleges, and from disciplines covering everything from CS and electrical engineering to journalism and technical writing. POSSE alumni have met with success, engaging their students in marketing, interface design, and more – directly in the project communities they’ve chosen to work with. In order to bring these opportunities to a wider audience, we’ve distilled the POSSE curriculum into a half-day intensive. This mini-POSSE is focused on basic communication skills and tools that will allow you to learn “the open source way” by navigating actual project communties – the equivalent of a traveler’s phrasebook for a foreign land. In this workshop, you will be expected to dive into actual open source project chatrooms, code, writing, design, and infrastructure and work with contributors from that community who you have never met before and who do not know that you’ll be coming, because that’s often how it will be when you’re contributing there on your own. You will be pushed outside your comfort zone, but you will also have the in-person guidance of experienced mentors who will – in real-time – annotate and explain the methods behind the madness you’re encountering, and help you learn how to navigate this new world yourself. Attendees who enjoy the workshop and wish to proceed with their learning can utilize follow-up open content modules that will be released this summer. This long-distance, study-at-your-own-pace version of the remainder of the POSSE curriculum is not focused on tool-learning and book exercises, but rather on continuing to get you engaged in conversation and collaboration with actual open source communities you may want to work with. We highly recommend participation in this in-person workshop for those thinking about utilizing the remote modules described at http://teachingopensource.org/index.php/POSSE_modules (currently under development by the Teaching Open Source community).

Presentation Slides:

scale-talk.odp