There is a new project in the works called Arch Classroom, and it needs lots of planning and volunteers! The idea is that we use a section on the wiki for class material like lesson plans and tutorials. Then anyone can use that to have a class in real life or online.

The project would be similar in scope to Ubuntu Classroom: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom but probably more arch like.

The project idea was brainstormed in an Arch Women meeting. (for some context see here: http://archwomen.org/index.php/2012/june) We were coming up with ideas to increase the contributions of women to Arch Linux, and thought teaching people how to create and maintain packages would be a great start. Then after more discussion with the devs and other users, we realized it would be more useful to have a separate project for anyone and everyone to use to create their own classes. Arch Women specifically wants to host/sponsor some classes, and we'd like to start with a package maintaining class.

A package building / maintaining class could have sections on bash scripting resources, how programs are installed in a Linux system environment, what variables are used in PKGBUILDS, how to handle special case PKGBUILD like cvs, git, python, ruby, etc.

A few things up for discussion:

could we get an official mailing list for teachers/project planners? Is using the talk page on wiki or in the forums better?

class ideas!

what is the best way to go about organizing/implementing this?

constructive criticism

Anyone want to volunteer to head this thing or contribute?

LETS DO THIS!!!!1111

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For more information on Arch Women please have a look at our site or IRC channel. http://archwomen.org #archlinux-women @ irc.freenode.net

I'm going to make a request that no one post replies expressing disbelief or contempt for Arch Women in this thread. Go to the Arch Women site or IRC channel for Arch Women discussion. Lets keep this thread on topic and plan out Arch Classroom.