Training day at Computerbank

Just thought I'd take the time to post about the training session we had at Computerbank today.

All of the trainees were newly arrived refugees (from three different countries). A bunch of really nice people/kids. Keen to learn and able to pick up Linux/KDE/Openoffice basics pretty quick.

One of the littlies found it a bit hard to cope with three hours of being quiet. Despite some of the hiccups (late arrivals, young children) our new and old trainers were able to deliver a great training session.

I helped a 10 year old. He was interested in the internet, games and word processing. He used MS Word at school. When I asked him if he thought OpenOffice Writer was similar he replied it was the same to him. We experienced a problem with yahoo mail. I have posted about the problem on the Computerbank Victoria issue tracker.

When his younger brother wasn't being disruptive, he was able to work out how to use SuperTux on his own. At the end their mum thanked everyone, I even got a big kiss on the cheek from her! :)

There were also two teenagers (brother and sister). They were pretty interested in the internet. I didn't notice them having any issues accessing different kinds of media.

The last person wanted to know how to get Sinhalese language support going for web pages. We were not able to work this one out until after he had left*.

All in all...the training went really well. I enjoyed the session a lot. I think all the participants did too!

*For those looking for the answer... it turns out you need to add "si," at the start of the intl.accept_languages option from the about:config page. Type about:config in the url location bar. Thanks BK for that info. I plan to ring/email through this info next week. Another one for the issue tracker (temp knowledge base). :)