[ale] ANN: Linux Training Class, Atlanta, GA, 13-15 Oct.

[Jeff Hubbs]

Sometimes the best jokes are the ones that people can't tell are jokes.

I can't say I'm happy to see things like this.  It smacks of the
Microsoftization of Linux:

1.  New product gains wide acceptance
2.  Training companies promote their training classes as a gateway
    to high-paying IT jobs
3.  Flood of nearly experienceless graduates flood the job market, 
    depressing the prevailing wage for all
4.  Quality of work suffers; companies staff IT departments with 
    morons

Part of the reason I gravitated away form the MS world and to the Linux
world was that the barriers for entry with Linux were really only the
ones that were self-imposed; if you want to learn it, it's there and
readily available to be learned, and the people who know it share their
knowledge.  

By the way, one of my former employers - a self-styled "premier" IT
education company - was going to start teaching Linux classes and when
they had me look at the training materials, they were a joke - full of
things like how to use the Red Hat GUI for adding user accounts.  I
couldn't find anything about the Linux directory tree, history,
structure, compiling, disk partitions...basically, nothing you'd need to
fundamentally understand the first thing you were doing was there.

- Jeff


On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 15:45, Dylan Northrup wrote:
> A long time ago, (22.09.03), in a galaxy far, far away, Crawford Rainwater...:
> 
> :=The limitation is due to the classroom size available to us for those
> :=dates.  In addition, we do have probably a better student to instructor
> :=ratio that most (including one who wishes to tech as many as you can
> :=fill in a room).
> :=
> :=Also we have an instructor already for this course, one of ITEC's
> :=employees.
> 
> I don't want to seem like I'm raining on your parade, but this list is full
> of people that, I'm sure, would gladly take $1000 to provide an Introductory
> Linux preparation course to someone.  I've taught technical courses to
> groups and 15 seems like the upper-bound for a subject such as this.  And,
> while the additional money would be nice, I wasn't actively pimping myself.
> 
> I was pointing out that $1000 is a lot of money for an Intro course.
-- 
Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net>