[Courses] [Volunteers] Simple volunteer job: Converting old courses.

[Megan Pengelly]

I'm a Unix SA who would like to help out with whichever of these tasks ends
up being the right one.

/meg

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Penny Leach <penny at mjollnir.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 12:23:15AM -0400, Terri Oda wrote:
> > A friend of mine asked about LaTeX and I wanted to direct him to
> > Isabelle's great LaTeX course... but her site isn't online anymore and
> > we never put the lessons on the new site.  So made a basic new page for
> > them:
> > http://www.linuxchix.org/courses/latex.html
> >
> > If anyone's interested in a simple task to help out linuxchix, I'd love
> > to see some (or all!) of the other courses moved from the old site to
> > the new.  It'll mean finding the course on the old website (or in the
> > courses archive) and just cutting, pasting, and formatting the lessons
> > into the new site.  It's pretty easy, satisfying, and helps make the
> > linuxchix site more useful.
>
> Have we completely given up on using Moodle for this?  Julie Pichon put a
> lot of work into migrating the old courses from mbox format to Moodle and
> we've been waiting for .. oh, at least a year, for Postgres to be upgraded
> on the server :(
>
> We had a new version of Moodle, with the SSO problems removed (we took away
> SSO from the main Linuxchix site after a long discussion about it), and all
> the courses ready to go.
>
> If people want to go ahead and copy and paste them all over to the new
> Drupal then I'll happily bow out, but I think it's really a pity since it's
> a huge duplication of effort for something that could have been solved a
> year ago, but that was held up by a relatively small task.
>
> Cheers,
> Penny
>
>
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