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This follows up on How should we celebrate 10 years of Ask Ubuntu?. The answer by jokerdino suggesting Ask Ubuntu Classrooms was very popular so this post is an attempt to start organising it. I have also posted about making a banner or other means of notifying people about events.

The idea is to have learning sessions (most likely in chat) about things we can do in Ubuntu, around the time of Ask Ubuntu's 10th anniversary in October.

Please post an answer here to

  • Request a session about something you would like to learn
  • Offer a session you would like to teach

If you can offer a session that has been requested, it may be sufficient to comment on the request, rather than posting a new answer.

Note: Other ideas may also be taken forward. Everyone is hereby encouraged to post on meta or in chat (feel free to ping me) about implementing any other celebration ideas.

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I would like to learn about writing a new gnome-shell extension from scratch as jokerdino suggested.

Shell extensions are used quite often and are very useful. Even the official wiki is not completed yet, and there aren't many good resources available for this. I think Learning by building a extension will be fun and insightful.

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I am willing to do a very beginner level introduction to command line and basic file permissions, if it is of interest

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    I am new to Ubuntu and would love to learn this
    – user1045367
    Commented Jul 17, 2020 at 16:02
  • Although only experience Ubuntu users care about Ubuntu's anniversary, I think this would be a great idea.
    – Abhay Patil
    Commented Jul 18, 2020 at 18:19
  • It seems that U&L has covered this fairly well: Understanding UNIX permissions and file types, Execute vs Read bit – How do directory permissions in Linux work?, What are the different ways to set file permissions, etc, on GNU/Linux?, and more.  Do you believe that AU needs a separate copy of that information?  Is there something you would add for Ubuntu that isn’t already in the U&L answers?  If so, please add it there.
    – G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica'
    Commented Jul 30, 2020 at 2:25
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    @G-ManSays'ReinstateMonica' the idea is to give an interactive lesson about the topic, not write an answer about it
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Jul 30, 2020 at 3:24
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    I tend to use line commands only when necessary, i.e. checking kernel version after an update. It would be useful for me to have a primer when I do need to use these things. File permissions like chmod, and whatever 777 means etc, and why its there - sounds useful.
    – xtrchessreal
    Commented Aug 1, 2020 at 19:37
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Learning by doing: How to host a package in PPA and Snapcraft.

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    This is awesome! I was going to ask for this as a "request" but kept procrastinating. Thank you for reading my mind!
    – Dan
    Commented Jul 27, 2020 at 9:01
  • Hi! The lessons are now being scheduled. Please check out the new meta post and post an answer to schedule your lesson, if you are still willing to teach it - thank you!
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Oct 3, 2020 at 17:03
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I would like some tips on using Vim efficiently and doing clever things with it.

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Setting up regular backups like using rsync

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    I've recently been fiddling with an rsync backup script, so I feel I could give some hints and tips to general CLI usage of rsync. However, I'm not sure I would feel comfortable by hosting an entire session by myself, but maybe I could supplement someone: 1) Teaching the graphical rsync interface or 2) As an addon to an existing CLI session. @Zanna what do you think? :-)
    – Artur Meinild
    Commented Oct 13, 2020 at 11:39
  • Sounds awesome @ArturMeinild
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Oct 14, 2020 at 9:10
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I would like a lesson on how to use the perl rename command.

-- Reddit user SpecificHat

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  • I nominate terdon to give that lesson :D
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 15:56
  • @Zanna I'm happy to share what I know. I might need some help organizing it though since i) I'm not very good at organizing and ii) I really don't have much free time these days. If it's just a question of churning out a few rename examples or fielding questions from interested users, then I can do it with no preparation. If I need to create some sort of course, I will have to ask for help on what it should cover. It basically comes down to "Here are some fancy things you can do with PCRE regexes".
    – terdon
    Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 16:19
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    Ah. Eliah is at least as knowledgeable about this as I am, most probably more, and has been known to produce a book on any given subject at the slightest provocation. Maybe I'll ask him!
    – terdon
    Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 16:20
  • @terdon anything goes! Examples and/or Q&A would be great. I could come up with some "and how do I do such-and-such?" type stuff or whatever else would help and participate. It will be done in chat I guess. As for organisation, we will take care of it. But, it's totally cool if you are too busy, I really get that!
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 16:45
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    If it's something I can do off the top of my head (it probably is, unless you need some clear structure), then it should be fine in October.
    – terdon
    Commented Aug 10, 2020 at 16:52
  • @terdon sorry not to have followed up earlier. The lessons are now being scheduled via this meta post. Please post an answer to schedule your lesson if you are still willing to teach it :)
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Oct 3, 2020 at 17:04
  • @Zanna ah, crud. I'm actually flying back to London on that Saturday, and this week looks like I'm going to have an insane amount of work. I might try for Sunday but I can't commit right now.
    – terdon
    Commented Oct 3, 2020 at 17:35
  • @terdon it's the week after, or basically whenever you feel like it :)
    – Zanna Mod
    Commented Oct 4, 2020 at 1:50
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Precautions and safety measures to be taken while running commands (that could affect our system).

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It would be nice lesson for systemd. Like make own target or service system-wide or for user associated with udev.

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I would like to learn about using Windows and Android programs on Ubuntu.

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Tricks to speed up Ubuntu ⚡🚀⚡.

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