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This page aggregates publicly available educational materials from the
FutureGrid community that have been used in courses, tutorials, and
workshops.  If you plan to use FutureGrid in your educational and
training activities, you can benefit and build upon class materials
developed by other FutureGrid users, contribute your own to the
community, and disseminate your work - see instructions below on how to
add content.

**Links to Material:**
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-  FutureGrid Massive Open Only Courses
   (`MOOCs <https://fgmoocs.appspot.com>`__) (Project led by Geoffrey
   Fox)

   -  `Intro to FutureGrid <https://fgmoocs.appspot.com/project>`__ by
      Geoffrey Fox and Gregor von Laszewski
   -  `IP-over-P2P (IPOP) <https://fgmoocs.appspot.com/ipop>`__\ by
      Renato J. Figueirdo

-  Cloud computing full-day tutorial given at SC12 (`PDF
   slides <http://www.nimbusproject.org/docs/sc12/>`__) (\ `Project led
   by John Bresnahan <https://portal.futuregrid.org/projects/265>`__)
-  Cloud computing tuturial given at XSEDE 2012
   (`slides <http://www.nimbusproject.org/docs/xsede12/>`__) (`Project
   led by John
   Bresnahan <https://portal.futuregrid.org/projects/229>`__)
-  FutureGrid half-day tutorial given
   at CCgrid 2011 (`SVN repository <http://futuregrid.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/futuregrid/presentations/tutorial-half-day/>`__,  `PDF
   slides <http://futuregrid.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/futuregrid/presentations/tutorial-half-day/ccgrid2011-tutorial.pdf?view=log>`_)
   (`Project led
   by Gregor von Laszewski <https://portal.futuregrid.org/project/124>`_)
-  Videos from CloudCom 2010 tutorials: FutureGrid, Nimbus, OpenStack,
   OpenNebula, Microsoft Azure (`CloudCom 2010 Web
   page <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csmediacenter/cloudcom2010/tutorials>`_)
-  `Cloud computing course at University
   of Piemonte Orientale <https://portal.futuregrid.org/contrib/cloud-computing-class>`_ (`Project
   led
   by Massimo Canonico <https://portal.futuregrid.org/project/122>`_)
-  Workshop: A Cloud View on Computing (`Project led by Jerome
   Mitchell <https://portal.futuregrid.org/project/120>`_)

**How to Add Your Content:**
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If you are a FutureGrid user with an active educational project and
would like to contribute your own materials with a page hosted on the FG
portal, please go through the following steps to have your material
linked here:

-  Select "Add a Community page" from the Community tab of the top menu
   (`or follow this direct
   link <https://portal.futuregrid.org/node/add/page-community>`__) to
   create a page
-  Edit the page with your content. The FutureGrid portal supports a
   browser-based Web page editor; `refer to our
   FAQ <https://portal.futuregrid.org/faq>`__ for more information on
   using the editor.
-  Send a help request
   via :portal:'help <help>' including in the subject of
   your message "Request for class materials page", providing a link or
   the name of your FutureGrid project in the body of your message, and
   a link to the page you want to be linked.
-  In case you like to have your own FG community hosted
   `forum <https://portal.futuregrid.org/forum>`__\ either for your
   class or a different topic, please submit a help request
   at :portal:'help <help>'