announcing the classes seems like a good idea to me. i agree with rick: no binaries, no attachments in email to groups. use ASCII inline as a courtesy to readers (and administrators). note i've tried to improve readability in the items below (got rid of newlines within blocks).
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 13:42 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Valerie Dow (vdow@unex.berkeley.edu):
I'm fairly new to UC Berkeley Extension. We have a cluster of intensive Linux short courses that start this month. Is it appropriate for me to post an announcement about the courses on the BALUG-TALK list? I've attached a press release. Let me know if it's possible to announce these courses to BALUG and the best way to do so.
Oh, I think that would be fine. I'm cc'ing the balug-admin mailing list to solicit other comments if any.
Please strongly consider copying and pasting the substantive contents of your MS-Word file inline into your posting's body text -- or in some other way post real ASCII -- as opposed to file-attaching an MS-Word document to the mailing list. Posting binary-format attachments to mailing lists is, in general, a bad idea.
(If my point is unclear, please say so, and I'll be glad to clarify.)
In fact, I've just run the press release through a filter that extracts plaintext from MS-Word files, so here y'are:
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, [1]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 [2]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 [3]www.unex.berkeley.edu/it.
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References
- http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/
- http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/cat/cis.html#openos
- http://www.unex.berkeley.edu/it
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