Jeremiah T. Gray from The Austin, TX Linux and General Discussion Mailing List produced an Educational comic teaching Ubuntu called Hackett and Bankwell. You may have heard of it a while back. I was speaking with him, and he offered to send a few to the KCLUG. They arrived this morning, and I'm bringing them to the meeting Tonight! These might be interesting to hand out at the next ITEC or other event. I haven't had time to take them out of the envelope yet, but the binding, and what I've seen of the content, look professionally done.
For more info, see: http://www.hackettandbankwell.com or http://www.linux.com/feature/131068
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
Jeremiah T. Gray from The Austin, TX Linux and General Discussion Mailing List produced an Educational comic teaching Ubuntu called Hackett and Bankwell. You may have heard of it a while back. I was speaking with him, and he offered to send a few to the KCLUG. They arrived this morning, and I'm bringing them to the meeting Tonight! These might be interesting to hand out at the next ITEC or other event. I haven't had time to take them out of the envelope yet, but the binding, and what I've seen of the content, look professionally done.
Frankly, this sort of stuff scares me for its capacity to be completely wrong. Peer review is a critical component, even for HOWTOs. Thats why I prefer to place HOWTOs on the wiki, to lower the barrier to review and suggested change.
Justin Dugger
I don't disagree with your point, but I thought is was an excellent way to present the material to kids and adults alike. After all, dumbing it down for the masses can't hurt a beginner. Isn't that what google chrome did?
Thanks,
Ron Geoffrion 913.488.7664
-----Original Message----- From: kclug-bounces@kclug.org [mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] On Behalf Of Justin Dugger Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 9:45 PM To: Billy Crook Cc: kclug@kclug.org Subject: Re: Hackett and Bankwell
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
Jeremiah T. Gray from The Austin, TX Linux and General Discussion Mailing List produced an Educational comic teaching Ubuntu called Hackett and Bankwell. You may have heard of it a while back. I was speaking with him, and he offered to send a few to the KCLUG. They arrived this morning, and I'm bringing them to the meeting Tonight! These might be interesting to hand out at the next ITEC or other event. I haven't had time to take them out of the envelope yet, but the binding, and what I've seen of the content, look professionally done.
Frankly, this sort of stuff scares me for its capacity to be completely wrong. Peer review is a critical component, even for HOWTOs. Thats why I prefer to place HOWTOs on the wiki, to lower the barrier to review and suggested change.
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 21:45, Justin Dugger jldugger@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
Jeremiah T. Gray from The Austin, TX Linux and General Discussion Mailing List produced an Educational comic teaching Ubuntu called Hackett and Bankwell. ...
Frankly, this sort of stuff scares me for its capacity to be completely wrong. Peer review is a critical component, even for HOWTOs. Thats why I prefer to place HOWTOs on the wiki, to lower the barrier to review and suggested change.
Justin Dugger
Kindly submit your list of observed errata in the comic to this thread; or at your option, to "the wiki". Thanks for your contribution.
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