[volunteers] [Mailman-owner] Permission to post announcement about Embedded Linux courses

[Rick Moen]

Hullo again.  (I've just spoken to Valerie in the same capacity for
BALUG.)


Quoting Valerie Dow (vdow at unex.berkeley.edu):

> I'm fairly new to UC Berkeley Extension. We have a cluster of Embedded Linux
> Short Courses that start this month. Is it appropriate to post an
> announcement to your members? If so, can you advise me on the best way to
> proceed?  

Oh, I think that would be fine.  I'm cc'ing the SVLUG Volunteers mailing
list to solicit other comments if any.

> I've attached a draft of a press release in simple text.

MS-Word turns out to output a really awful variant of plain ASCII text:  
It puts each paragraph in one single line, which is considered obnoxious
by most technical users, if used in postings to online fora.  (The
standard is that lines should be kept to less then 80 columns, with some
functional exceptions.)  Also, MS-Word tends to use MS-Windows-specific
(i.e., non-standard) high-bit characters in place of standard
punctuation characters in its alleged plaintext ASCII output, e.g.,
dashes, quotation marks, apostrophes, and a number of others.

I have cleaned up your text manually, below.  Please be welcome to use
it.  (Please also be aware that, if you import that text into MS-Word,
it's rather likely that MS-Word will re-damage it.)  You also were
missing a closing quotation mark, which I've supplied.  <grin>



UC Berkeley Extension Announces Embedded Linux Short Courses
January 7, 2009, Berkeley CA

UC Berkeley Extension announces four new intensive embedded Linux
courses in its spring line up starting January 26 in Redwood City taught
by Dr. Kevin Dankwardt, an author, speaker, and instructor who has
specialized in embedded Linux for the last 10 years.

"Unlike most of our other courses," says UC Extension Program Director
Jim Connor, "these are short, intensive courses lasting one to five
consecutive days that are designed to provide software developers with a
very efficient, accelerated learning experience. The courses are very
hands-on with a wealth of practical exercises so a developer or an
entire team could take all four of these courses in January and early
February", says Connor, "and have a rapid ramp up working with embedded
Linux."


The short courses, held in Redwood City, are:
Linux Application Program Design and Development
January 26-30, 8 am - 3 pm
EDP 326223

Linux Device Driver Issues Design and Development
January 26-30, 3 pm - 10 pm
EDP 326321

Real-time Linux Design Development and Measurement
January 31, 8 am - 6 pm
EDP 326249

Embedded Linux Design and Development
February 2-4, 8 am - 7 pm
EDP 326215

Students should have some experience with UNIX/Linux fundamentals and C.
"These four short courses complement each other," says Extension's Jim
Connor.  "Developers who work at the application level or kernel level
will benefit greatly from each of them.  We're very excited to have
these short courses as part of our program this spring," says Connor.

Dr. Dankwardt earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from The Center For
Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana (Lafayette),
and held a professorship at Louisiana Tech University where he served as
Chairman of the Computer Science Department. Additionally, he chairs the
Education committee of the Embedded Linux consortium, and serves as
contributing Editor to LinuxDevices.com.

Founded in 1891, UC Berkeley Extension, www.unex.berkeley.edu, is the
continuing education branch of the University of California Berkeley.
Today, Extension offers 1,500 courses each year, including online
courses, along with more than 30 certificate and professional programs.

To find out more about these Linux courses and other open source courses
offered at UC Berkeley Extension this term, visit
http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/cis.html#openos or call 510.642.4150.
To find out about the computer technology and information management
program at UC Berkeley Extension, visit www.unex.berkeley.edu/it.