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By: Open Source Strategies, Open Source Personalities, Ubuntu Documentation, SugarCRM CEO interview: links 28-12-200 | Commercial Open Source Software

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:09:28 +0000

[…] and Taking - Digium’s strategy on licensing unleashed. A community approach to commercial training materials - Mark Shuttleworth on Ubuntu’s approach to create training […]

By: shirish

shirish — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:56:37 +0000

Does anybody know where I can get the ‘daily pdf’ . I just want to take a snapshot so I know what’s in it. Downloading 700 MB is a big pain then 70 MB. Atleast in the beginning when one isn’t sure if this is something where one can contribute. I’m sure there are many others like me.

By: Justin Clift

Justin Clift — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:27:33 +0000

Still a few weeks away from a first usable release, but soon there will be a free software tool for creating multimedia training.

Like RoboDemo, Captivate, CamStudio, as mentioned by Carlo Gandolfi above:

http://www.flameproject.org

The project and website will be renamed to http://www.salasaga.org before this release, as “Flame” is used by other (trademarked) products it turns out.

By: César R.

César R. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:59:51 +0000

So if I want to run a course in a public university/school for training some people (teachers, administrators, students) to use Ubuntu, and no one pay for being in this course (but the school fees) and the school pay me because I work in the institution in many different computer related ways (say technical support, maintenance, etc.)…

…am I violating the license for doing the training and offering the material free as in beer (trough internet or other inexpensive ways)?.

I commonly understand the CC licenses but this one confuse me some times.

Anyway, for personal learning this is a huge contribution by Canonical for us. Thank you so much.

By: Une approche communautaire des supports de formation commerciaux

Une approche communautaire des supports de formation commerciaux — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:07:42 +0000

[…] française de l’article “A community approach to commercial training materials“. Auteur : Mark Shuttleworth - Traducteur : Bernard […]

By: Cripto

Cripto — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:55:25 +0000

Nice nice nice,
thats why Ubuntu will be the greatest Linux ever, it is isnt there already..

Documentation free of a master piece Linux is wonderful. It will permit
those in countries with no access to $$$ schools to lean and become after
very good professionals and maybe ( i hope so ) to return some of the
investment to ubuntu.

Mark, Canonical, volunteers, congratulations for making the best linux ever,
even greater.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:03:23 +0000

Some friends and me have been teaching Linux courses at the University for years. We used Debian before and now Ubuntu since the first release. The content of our Linux introduction course is quite similar to the Ubuntu desktop course. Can we use Ubuntu’s material in our course? I am afraid that the NC clause will prevent from that since instructors get paid, and for the other reasons already mentions.

Is the NC clause intention to prevent the use of the course by instructors, or just to stop book re-selling?
What if I do not like my contributed material to be NC?

All in all, it is a great step for Ubuntu and Linux training in general.

Mark Shuttleworth says: I don’t think this prevents you from using the materials, but it will probably require you to check with the folks running the materials. They may decide that the way you are using the materials means you need to license them commercially, or they may not.

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Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:55:08 +0000

[…] Chez Canonical, Billy Cina a réalisé des progrès constants afin d’obtenir un portfolio complet d’options de formations pour les utilisateurs commerciaux d’Ubuntu. Les entreprises qui souhaitent voir leur personnel formé de façon rigoureuse, et les individus souhaitant voir leurs compétences sur Ubuntu formalisées, ont besoin d’une architecture sûre et certifiée pour attester de ces compétences. Ces formations sont en général vendues aux entreprises qui ont adopté une plate-forme ou des outils et qui souhaitent assurer un niveau homogène de compétences pour toute leur organisation. Beaucoup d’entreprises migrent sur Ubuntu, tant leurs serveurs que leurs postes de travail et la demande de formation augmente en conséquence. Un système pour construire des cours et les administrer est maintenant disponible pour des fournisseurs de formation autorisés. En utilisant une approche communautaire, les supports de formations sont disponibles dans un format ouvert (Docbook), le contenu des cours est disponible dans un dépôt Bazaar public et sous license CC-BY-NC-SA. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/134 […]

By: era

era — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 20:43:37 +0000

This is the Gnu FDL debacle all over again. I think it’s valid and fruitful to view technical prose as quite different from program source code, all the way to having different licensing requirements and therefore a different license. The purpose of the documentation is to help people learn, and a lot of the contributors would probably feel betrayed if a third party was able to make money off of publishing their book commercially.

By: penguin

penguin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:31:35 +0000

Mark Shuttleworth,

Thank you for holding out this long against Microsoft.

Please NEVER sign any agreement with them.

The key to Linux success is AVOIDING THEM AT ALL COSTS!

The only reason Linux is becoming heard is because of YOU and YOUR EFFORTS with Ubuntu Linux! Someone had the strength to push ahead with a vision.

Keep the penguin beak afloat, never give in. I don’t care what love lotion offer appears, refuse, resist.

We believe in YOU.