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FOSS Group formed!

by Admin User (Syndrega) -

Dear students

At the end of the Open Source modules for this year the Linux enthusiasts formed a FOSS Group on our site. The motivation is the recognition that by passively consuming courses will not take you to the next level. It starts by doing things, actively taking control of your path. The group already formed a sub-group documenting how they installed their Linux desktop and are willing to help newcomers who adapt to "their" Linux distribution. Another sub-group is on to creating a distributed network of "satellite" Moodle instances on Raspberry Pi, which gets content from a main Moodle site and merge their data back to the main site. For those who love teaching, as the saying goes, "teaching is the best way to learn", there's another sub-group forming to create course content for schools in the local languages and at the same time improving the Sinhala and Tamil language support in Moodle.

Our meeting point is https://edunet.lk/course/view.php?id=109. You need an account on the site. If you don't have one, drop a mail to info-at-EduNET.LK. We had to close the self-registration due to spam.

(Originally posted on the OpenLearn.LK site.)

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Available courses

After this year's workshops on FOSS and Linux a solid group of enthusiasts stayed back here on EduNET. So we created this meeting point for anybody who wants to join.

Currently we have three areas of interest: Linux desktop including live-systems, Linux on Raspberry Pi and Linux distributions for schools. You're welcome to bring your ideas on these subjects, discuss FOSS and Linux matters here.

Here is the instructor-led workshop December-January 2025 now in self-learn mode.

This multiple-session workshop is your first encounter with the Linux shell which is at the heart of any Unix machine. In six units of 2 to 3 hours of work each, this workshop enables the novice to speak the most basic commands and understand its logic.

This module, like the first one, was an instructor-led, fully on-line workshop with multiple sessions where the participants learnt to set up a web development environment their your PC or laptop running the Linux operating system in a virtual environment and start developing for the web - naturally all with Free and Open Source Software!