Working at Infi I’m involved in several study groups, one of which is about Linux. When we started the group it turned out we had six people and six different levels of experience. And I was the absolute newbie of the group.
We decided to set up a program divided in weeks, with one subject for each week, and a “Lead” for each subject. The Lead would research a lot about his or her main topic, and ask the rest of the group to merely do some light recommended reading. This is to get everyone at a base intro level for each topic. Every week we’ll have a session where the Lead would talk about his or her research, along with some open discussion.
Obviously, the first topic would be a “Linux Basics” session. It also seemed logical that the newbie (me!) would pick up this topic, because I’d have most to gain from researching the hell out of it.
Seems legit, right!? Except I now realize this means I’ll be presenting on Linux Basics to five colleagues that know a lot more about this topic than I do. Oh, and because it’s the first week’s topic I have only a week to prepare. Whelp!
I’ll just have to focus on learning a lot from all this. No progress without failure, and no progress without taking risk, I guess.
Foot Note: The Programme
We composed the Study Plan based on whatever the group members individually found interesting enough to research. This means it’s a bit of a weird assembly, but interesting nonetheless:
- Week 1: WTF is Linux?
- Week 2: Command Line
- Week 3: File Systems
- Week 4: Screen
- Week 5: Web Servers (Apache & NGINX)
- Week 6: Ansible
- Week 7: .NET Core
- Week 8: Logging & Smart Monitoring
- Week 9: KVM, Virtualization, Containers