Lernid @ Ubuntu Open Week

Ubuntu Open Week is the time when the long-distance learning application Lernid comes to the fore. Today I attended three sessions, the first was the tail end of a discussion on translating Ubuntu. Next up was how to help the Ubuntu Community, followed by an excellent Inkscape for beginners tutorial from DoctorMo in which I discovered the joys of drag 'n drop in a graphic application which is steadily developing into a power package. Just having some online interaction, with a mentor putting up pages does wonders for learning and I can see lernid being used in other pedogological /educational situations.

Lernid finally educated in Karmic

Jono Bacon's solution to long distance learning and user participation in Ubuntu Open conferences has finally arrived relatively bug-free in Karmic with less than three weeks to go before the  inaugral March 1 Ubuntu Opportunitic Developer Week. Which all sounds a bit like an infection? Earlier releases of the programme  had simply refused to run on my machine so I took the rash move of  copypasting the error message directly onto Bacon's blog. Sorry mate. No time to file a bug report, but I expected a fever and this could just be the antidote.  Bacon says: "While at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Dallas I mentioned in one of the roundtables about how wicked-cool it would be to have a desktop client for ... online tuition events that we run."

"One of the challenges we face every time we run these events is helping new community members figure out how IRC works. Ideally this should be as simple as running a program, selecting an event and connecting."

" On the flight home I hacked up a little quickly app to get started on this. It is called Lernid."

http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/11/25/introducing-lernid/

To install:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lernid-devs/lernid-releases
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lernid

There is also a ppa for daily releases

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/lernid-devs/lernid-daily/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/lernid-devs/lernid-daily/ubuntu karmic main

More info

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lernid