Comments on: Amusing Open Courseware request http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/08/01/amusing-open-courseware-request A permanent record for what's interesting today - this is my live journal Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Jonathon http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/08/01/amusing-open-courseware-request#comment-129023 Jonathon Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:45:20 +0000 http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2007/08/01/amusing-open-courseware-request#comment-129023 The courseware was good for its time, but as you say is very outdated now. Is it worth updating? If you are still planning to be in that line of work maybe, but I doubt MySQL has much interest in it ;) Also, with the OpenOffice.org documentation project, much of the materials that were missing are now available in free downloads or can be purchased cheaply in book format to help sponsor the project. Does it include slides for training - not currently, but others are working on that and will see them become available. There are a number of sites that offer free OOo training slides for non-profit use and many of them are in the same state - still based on 1.x versions rather than the updated software with new features, interface etc. All up, a good resource for its time, but probably not really needing to be updated as it is. Maybe donate them to the documentation project as a starting point for training slides to be publicly available and have the acknowledgment guaranteed then. The courseware was good for its time, but as you say is very outdated now. Is it worth updating? If you are still planning to be in that line of work maybe, but I doubt MySQL has much interest in it ;)

Also, with the OpenOffice.org documentation project, much of the materials that were missing are now available in free downloads or can be purchased cheaply in book format to help sponsor the project. Does it include slides for training - not currently, but others are working on that and will see them become available. There are a number of sites that offer free OOo training slides for non-profit use and many of them are in the same state - still based on 1.x versions rather than the updated software with new features, interface etc.

All up, a good resource for its time, but probably not really needing to be updated as it is. Maybe donate them to the documentation project as a starting point for training slides to be publicly available and have the acknowledgment guaranteed then.

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