Faculty Unix Minutes of Meeting 25th Nov 2002

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[edit] General Motions

  • We should do a small bit of wiki at the end of each class to document the class and teach wiki
  • Syllabus consisting of beginning and end
  • A GNVClue at the end
  • lottie motions that injokes should bring injokes and not become one.
  • curriculum needs to be set out week by week.
  • installation has to be a separate section of its own because it's a too deep deep end.

[edit] Ten things that you need to know to understand unix

  1. week 1 (for example): disks, master boot records, files, directories etc. Performance write actions.
  2. week 2 needs to be filled in later.

[edit] Things to do next week

  • improving the material conditions of this room. Sofas.
  • all the computers have to be along one wall so people can confer
  • ergonomics of this room.

[edit] Projects

  • special projects. coursework.
  • project comittee
  • we can depend on the basic abilities of human beings to decide whether things are a good idea or not
  • shit scenarios are good. You are working for a productive new media ltd. Your line manager has asked you to prepare a report etc...
  • assignments are quite good. Better scenarios
  • so if you join, you get coursework.

[edit] Tours

  • we had a field trip on the internet on IRC
  • we can do tourism
  • your assignment this week is to hack the shit out of Nairobi
  • public places on the internet.

[edit] Naming the University.

  • University of unix and art works because it's not accurate, but it scares off the new age people.
  • we can recolonise the word art
  • anything is better than the "University of Openness".

[edit] Should there be a domain name for the UUA?

  • yes because it's easy and practical
  • no because it means we're part of the ICANN system and that's fucked
  • should we use donated crap domains that people have used at various time but are no longer in use?
  • no, we should buy a domain, but take note of the fact that we've had this discussion, and still encourage everyone to have their own uua.whatever.whatever.

[edit] Stories can be extended

  • illustration stories to hang your learning on should be extended into proper narratives
  • Paula gets called a goat. What does she do? And how do her unix skillz help her get revenge?
  • Crypto system's Bob and Alice are really annoying
  • the narrative should develop in different ways, key moments and key frames.
  • unix soap opera gets syndications.

[edit] Dates and days

  • are we sticking to monday?
  • we will have to do mondays until the magic circle meets.
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