Re: [thePILOTS-dev] thePILOTS-dev Digest, Vol 1, Issue 14

2007-10-14 Thread Richard Rothwell
On Sunday 14 October 2007 02:02, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 14/10/2007, John Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There seems to be little reference to virtualisation as a whole (VMWare > > is mentionned as an item on a topic after the survey) but the use of > > virtual servers is just exploding -

[thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread Richard Rothwell
Hi All, I've tried to make a very simple summary of where we are at: http://www.thepilots.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PostSurveyOverview Can we move to this page to construct something coherent? I'm hoping I've not missed anything major. For now if we can restrict is to one or two points pe

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread Richard Rothwell
On Sunday 14 October 2007 12:01, Ian Lynch wrote: > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 11:30 +0100, Richard Rothwell wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I've tried to make a very simple summary of where we are at: > > > > http://www.thepilots.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PostSurveyOverview > > > > Can we move to this pa

[thePILOTS-dev] additions

2007-10-14 Thread ptaylor
I think most things are covered on the web site, but Ian's suggestions make sense in terms of tying it in with school's overall requirements for CPD (using existing entry level, levels 1-3 etc). One thing that seems to be missing is applications, i.e. how and what to run on the servers in

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] additions

2007-10-14 Thread Richard Rothwell
On Sunday 14 October 2007 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think most things are covered on the web site, but Ian's suggestions > make sense in terms of tying it in with school's overall requirements > for CPD (using existing entry level, levels 1-3 etc). what do you think about raising each o

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] additions

2007-10-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 15:04 +0100, Richard Rothwell wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2007 14:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think most things are covered on the web site, but Ian's suggestions > > make sense in terms of tying it in with school's overall requirements > > for CPD (using existing ent

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] thePILOTS-dev Digest, Vol 1, Issue 14

2007-10-14 Thread John Harding
Richard, Just as a thought could we not have a section called "Virtualisation and thin clients" and include virtualisation and LTSP as they are both important technologies and would compliment each other very well. On 10/14/07, Richard Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sunday 14 October

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread John Harding
Having skimmed through at that document, I can see little overlap. This is almost a gentle introduction to non-computer literate or technophobes to basic computer-based operations - from office suites to using a GUI and even talks of password security (someone should tell my users because they won´

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread John Harding
Would it not be possible to have the Bronze award as "I understand basic IT administration concepts" - Networking, Whats in a Computer? Basic OS architecture, How to list running processes? How to install an OS (or run a Live distro)? etc This can be skipped by those who have this knowledge either

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread Alex Hudson
Richard Rothwell wrote: > Hi All, > > I've tried to make a very simple summary of where we are at: > > http://www.thepilots.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.PostSurveyOverview > > Can we move to this page to construct something coherent? I'm hoping I've > not > missed anything major. For now if we

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 20:09 +, John Harding wrote: > Having skimmed through at that document, I can see little overlap. > This is almost a gentle introduction to non-computer literate or > technophobes to basic computer-based operations - from office suites > to using a GUI and even talks of pa

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread John Harding
On 10/14/07, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 20:09 +, John Harding wrote: > > Having skimmed through at that document, I can see little overlap. > > This is almost a gentle introduction to non-computer literate or > > technophobes to basic computer-based operation

Re: [thePILOTS-dev] Trying to bring it all together

2007-10-14 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 21:49 +, John Harding wrote: > Would it be possible/worthwhile to maintain the Bronze award as a > non-accreditated cert as a stepping stone for the Silver (and higher) > awards for those that need it? Otherwise there would surely be little > point if the Bronze is never