<div dir="ltr">Thanks to you as well for getting it going back then and for your assistance today. You are certainly welcome any time you would like to stop by. I only wish we had found more time to chat. FYI, there are a few of us who often go to dinner afterwards if you are interested in that.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Kaoru Wilbur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.kaoru.wilbur@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kaoru.wilbur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:serif">Nice seeing all of you today.</span></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:serif"><br>
Well, I wanted to do a little research going back to the beginning installfest. Actually, and this is really interesting history- It was September 2003! Yes. It was 10 years ago this month!</span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:serif">The person we helped organize the installfest with was George Gambill. Myself and Rares Marian worked with him in organizing the event and assisted users on the Debian installations. Good times!</span><br>
</div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:serif"><br></span></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="serif"><span style="font-size:15px">There was great turn out today. A lot of great work you are doing!</span></font></div>
<div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="serif"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#000000" face="serif"><span style="font-size:15px">Here's to another 10 years!!!!</span></font></div>
</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 11:38 PM, Kaoru Wilbur <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m.kaoru.wilbur@gmail.com" target="_blank">m.kaoru.wilbur@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Hi, </font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">I
don't know that I can make it out so here are some suggestions:</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.2in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">If
it is Ubuntu then that is easy going, really, seriously - I even tried a local install
tonight to test it out. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Install
Ubuntu</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.2in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"> Depending
on machine all will go well with wireless (had some issues with
HP/Compaq Broadcom in the past)</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0.2in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Check
out these instructions on Moodle - really makes it smooth.
<br><a href="http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu" target="_blank">http://docs.moodle.org/20/en/Step-by-step_Installation_Guide_for_Ubuntu</a></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">open
a terminal</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">install
tasksel if you don't have it</font></p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><span style="font-family:FreeSans,sans-serif">install
lamp (wow, that was so easy... enter passwords, you know the routine)</span></p>
<pre style="margin-bottom:0.2in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"> sudo tasksel install lamp-server</font></pre><p style="margin-bottom:0.2in">
<font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">install moodle</font></p>
<pre style="margin-bottom:0.2in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"> sudo apt-get install moodle<br><br></font><span style="font-family:FreeSans,sans-serif">Seriously, no dependency issues, nothing. Really clean on this end.</span><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"><br>
</font></pre><p><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Now for the fun part - go to
localhost/moodle</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Did
you get a 404? I have gotten this... </font>
</p>
<p><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Easy fix with a link</font></p>
<pre style="margin-bottom:0.2in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif"> cd /var/www;sudo ln -s /usr/share/moodle</font></pre><p style="margin-bottom:0in">
<font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Now try it – Yeah! Works! or should!</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Follow
the instructions. Don't worry if you get 1 or 2 yellows...</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Greens
are awesome!</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Select
email display, town, basic info.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">*** Don't
forget the admin pwd because otherwise you/he will have some fun in
MySQL to look forward to in the future to reset that.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Enter
the Front settings and wow! There it is!</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">MOODLE! Yeah!!!!</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Now
the fun part – don't know if he wants this done tomorrow because
this is actually the “really” fun stuff. </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Site
Administration </font>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Add
users, courses, etc... Works with SCORM Compliant courses. </font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Paypal
or other payment methods. Some work here - Setup IPN in Paypal. Setup enrolments in Moodle. Setup enrolment price in course in Moodle once the course is added.<br></font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Change
appearance – all these are really fun and can take time depending
on what configurations are requested/required.</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br>
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">You
might catch me on Skype at aicra_ if you have any issues and I'm
awake!</font></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in">Sorry but sometimes, I don't sleep on a "normal" schedule. (more or less pass out after trying to keep eyes open....)
</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in">Also, Dave (?) can always contact me via skype or email with any future questions if I don't make it.</p><p style="margin-bottom:0in"><br></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in"><font face="FreeSans, sans-serif">Marcia</font></p>
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