Personal Telco University

Schedule

Inaugural classes to meet September 2004. Second class to meet January 2005.

Courses

• PersonalTelco Model, Operation and Organization

  • History and mission
  • Leadership
  • 501c3 status

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501c3 What is a 501c3]

  • Selling free
  • Communication
    • Wiki

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki Overview]

      • PTP Specifics
    • Email

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email Overview]

      • PTP Specifics

        • [http://lists.personaltelco.net/mailman/listinfo/general General MailingList]

    • IRC

      • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irc Overview]

      • [http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/IrcChannel PTP Specifics]

    • Request Tracker

      • [http://bestpractical.com/rt/features.html Overview]

      • PTP Specifics
    • Face to face
      • Meetings
        • Monthly
          • Every month we try and get together for some face time at our monthly meeting. They are informal events; anyone interested in learning more or helping out is welcome to come and ask (or answer) questions. We try to keep the meeting agenda page up to date so people can come informed with some idea of what to expect. Monthly meetings are normally held on the last Wednesday of each month, but occasionally vary due to space availability. Times are announced on the general and announce mailing lists, on the news page, and on the monthly meeting page.
        • Weekly
          • A small group of core members gather almost every week at our weekly meetings. We get together to work on problems that need to be solved. If you are just looking for help getting started your best bet is the mailing lists, but if you're looking to get seriously involved, this is the best way to meet the team. Weekly meetings are normally held every Tuesday, except the last week of each month, in which case the monthly meeting takes precedence. Times are normally announced on the general list a couple of days before they happen.
        • Playdays
          • Playdays are a time and place for all interested people to gather, listen to some presentors, exchange ideas, break up into focused groups and work at building up each others knowledge. Often the Playdays have a focus of one particular topic.
        • Workshops
          • Workshops are set up to work on particular projects. They tend to be very hands on and often produce items of use by the participants or the PTP in general.

        • AdHoc

  • Information management
  • Local responsibility
  • Community defined and operated
  • Creating and maintaining business relationships
  • Raising funds

• Installing and Maintaining DebianLinux

  • Definitions and overview
  • Getting and installing Debian GNU/Linux
  • Compatibility issues
  • Software available in the Debian system
  • Debian package management system
  • Keeping your Debian system up-to-date
  • Debian and the kernel
  • Customizing your installation of Debian GNU/Linux
  • Getting support for Debian GNU/Linux
  • Contributing to the Debian Project
• TCP/IP Networking

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission_Control_Protocol Overview of TCP/IP]

  • Delivering the Data
  • Network Services
  • Basic Configuration
  • Configuring the Interface
  • Configuring Routing
  • Configuring DNS
  • Local Network Services
  • Network Security
  • Troubleshooting TCP/IP
• RF and 802.11

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_propagation Introduction to Radio Propagation]

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLAN Introduction to Wireless Networks]

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/802.11 Overview of 802.11]

    • The 802.11 MAC
    • 802.11 Framing in Detail
    • Security
    • Management Operations
    • Physical Layer Overview
    • DS, CCK, OFDM Techniques
    • Using 802.11 on Linux
    • Using 802.11 Access Points
    • 802.11 Network Deployment
    • 802.11 Network Analysis
    • 802.11 Performance Tuning
• Network Maintenance
  • Nagios

    • [http://www.nagios.org/about.php Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • Cacti

    • [http://www.raxnet.net/products/cacti/what_is_cacti.php Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • AIDE

    • [http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • SNMP

    • [http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/cisintwk/ito_doc/snmp.htm Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • SVN

    • [http://svnbook.red-bean.com/svnbook/book.html Overview]

    • PTP Specifics

  • SmokePing

    • [http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/smokeping/ Overview]

    • PTP Specifics
  • Scripts

• PortlandOregon TopoGraphy

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Oregon Portland]: Rivers, Valleys, Hills and Mountains

  • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS GPS]

  • GIS Tools

    • [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIS Introduction to GIS]

    • [http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=10&n=5041152.76267904%20&e=525286.394249737&u=7&datum=nad83 Topozone's Portland Maps Online]

    • [http://www.cplus.org/rmw/english1.html Radio Mobile for Windows]

  • City of Portland

    • [http://www.portlandmaps.com Portland Maps]

• Final Project

Faculty

• DarrinEden

• TomHiggins

• KeeganQuinn

• RobertPetersen

• AaronBaer

• ...and special guests

Location

• PersonalTelcoUniversityCampus

Tuition

Nominal

Scholarships

Fifteen scholarships will be awarded to first incoming class. Three selected by each RegionCaptain.

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