Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course
“OK folks the long awaited Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course is ready, waiting and all yours for the taking!”
Oficial : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-desktop-course
Mark Shuttleworth recently announced the release of the “Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop” Course. Created with the help of the community to create a complete course to help companies train their staff and so on.
Licensing under open terms (CC-BY-NC-SA) , check the Wiki for more info : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
How to get the manuals ?
They are avalabe at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training : Student – Instructor
To get the latest version you need bazaar and dblatex to help create the pdf: bzr e dblatex
sudo apt-get install bzr dblatex
Get the source:
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~billy-cina/ubuntu-desktop-course/ubuntu-desktop-course
cd ubuntu-desktop-course
Create the PDF:
Student Guide: make booksg
Instructor Guide: make book
Q&A for Student Guide: make questions
Have fun 
Well, this is really good news, and I’m glad about this.
The only thing which I’m wondering about, not sure what to think of it, is the NC part of the CC license. looks like I’m not allowed to use this course materials to teach my customers and ask them for money?
Strange, as I’m perfectly allowed to to this when installing Ubuntu.
In Mark’s blog you can read :
“The license is copyleft and non-commercial, so that it is usable by any person for their own education and edification with the requirement that commercial use will involve some contribution back to the core project.”
But I think the best is to write them and ask.
But you can also teach using the docs in help.ubuntu.com
Hummm…
Been running the bazaar branch command (like svn checkout…?) for four hours and downloaded circa 250 Mb!!
What I am supposed to do?
How many megas do I have to download
it is very big, just let it download.
it is about 250 Mb sort of, so its almost