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First Quarter
Face-to-Face meeting
June 26 & 27, 2012 (at the Allied Media Conference, Detroit)
Topic: Getting started / Establishing Communications Protocol
Pre-meeting reading materials and preparation
- All mentees will be provided with a netbook at the first face-to-face meeting to be used for the project that will be used throughout the year as their "Trusted Physical Console"
- Trusted Physical Console
- Intro to Debian:
- The Debian Handbook
- http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Agenda
June 26
- 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm Introductions
- 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm Presentation and Discussion: Purpose of this Training -- Alfredo
- Why we are here
- How this will work/ how should this work?
- Blogging
- 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm Installing Debian (whezy) on netbooks (prepare prop to explain disk partitioning and do these presentations as the install proceeds).
- Overview and discussion of netbooks
- TPC computing or how we use and secure our local machines - Nat.
- Why we use Debian (and will be starting folks off there as well) - Ross.
- Install methods (review USB and network install - we will use USB install)
- 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm Reflections/feedback on day
June 27
- 9:00 am - 10:00 am Discharge Sessions: Technology, emotions, racism; creating an environment for addressing conflict -- Alfredo
- 10:00 am - 12:30 pm Mentee groups work with mentors to make new laptop functional (configuring email, using IRC, etc)
- 12:30 pm - 1:30 am Lunch
- 1:30 pm - 2:00 pm. Check-in on environment/communication
- 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Overview of Public Key Encryption and OpenPGP - Jamie
- 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm Break
- 3:15 pm - 4:00 pm Creating and signing OpenPGP keys - Jamie
- 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Meet your mentor: break up by mentor, figure out communication methos, etc.
- 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Evaluation and wrap up
First Quarter's work
Post-meeting reading materials and preparation
- Public Key encryption
- Logical Volume Manager
- Using OpenPGP to encrypt your mail
- Why use the Monkeysphere?
Tasks for first quarter:
- perfect the Installation, troubleshoot problems and familiarize yourself with Open Source communications tools
- Try to switch all your computer use to your new TPC. What are not able to do with your TPC? Work with your mentor to resolve as many obstacles as you can.
- If you have a spare un-used computer in your office, install linux on it
- If you prefer your existing computer to your TPC, try a dual-boot.
Note:
See TracWiki
for help on using the wiki.