Ross, been meaning to respond to this forever. Quick answer is: YES lets pursue this. We need more and better training materials and I would love if that stuff came as a part of the f/oss proj docs dist.
On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding creating some training materials. I met with a company > based here in the UK who might be interested in helping create some > training materials for the project. Like all volunteer driven efforts > there needs to be a number of people willing to make this happen. As a > random idea would anyone here be willing to support an activity such > as outlined below. > > For now lets assume all costs incurred, but not salaries, would be > covered and that outputs would be donated to the Cordova project for > reuse by the community in any way compatible with the ASF licence > (note I'm not saying I have secured funding for this activity, I'm > asking if those with the necessary skills would be willing to help > produce materials if funding were found). > > - organise a training event somewhere > - fly in key Cordova personel > - deliver training with video cameras present > - post produce training to make it suitable for online consumption > - video, slides, how to documentation etc. > > I'm thinking this would cover topics such as: > > Basic (user): > - downloading and installing Apache Cordova > - writing a hello world app > - deploying to each of the major platforms > - building a more complex app with JQuery Mobile (or similar) > - overview of advanced topics > > Intermediate (contributor): > - setting up an Apache Cordova development environment > - running build scripts and unit tests > - reporting bugs/requesting enhancements > - making changes to Cordova > - contributing changes upstream > > This is obviously alot of work and would not directly contribute to > the core code of the project. However, it might help attract new users > and contributors (such as those at the company I originally referred > to). Does this sound like something I should pursue with respect to > finding the resources to cover this work? Would someone here be > willing and able to provide the necessary training content? > > If there is sufficient (genuine) interest I will continue to pursue, > but if there wasn't enough community energy behind it I don't see how > I can make it work so will just drop it. > > Ross > > > > On 19 March 2012 22:47, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: >> No, tho Adobe has started creating a bunch of them lately. [1] I think >> its a good start but this content should be free, as in source, and in >> a more discoverable place (like our docs). >> >> Its been an education process for everyone. =/ >> >> And anyhow, I think this might be a different thing altogether. >> Something wherein we create an example video and add it to the docs >> ... opening up the opportunity for someone else to contribute an >> example translated. Also, we need to reopen the training materials. >> >> [1] http://tv.adobe.com/show/adc-presents-phonegap/ >> >> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Filip Maj <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Brian have we made publicly available any of the webcasts we recorded/gave >>> as Nitobi over the past two years or so? >>> >>> On 3/16/12 3:02 AM, "Ross Gardler" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>>On 7 March 2012 19:32, Brian LeRoux <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hey Ross, sorry for the delayed response! Been meaning to answer this. >>>>> The short answer is we try to be available as possible in every place >>>>> possible. We're all over twitter, irc, stackoverflow, the various >>>>> mailing lists and confs. When at Nitobi we did regular webcasts and >>>>> in-person training (monthly). Thats dropped off of late. Formalizing >>>>> our in person training would be good. >>>> >>>>As a start I'd be very interested in exploring the webcast idea. If >>>>there is sufficient momentum from Cordova devs to make this happen >>>>then I'd like to see what we can do as a trial. Is there any >>>>information about the kinds of webcasts you ran and which worked well? >>>> >>>>Ross >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Ross Gardler >>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> I was recently at an event in Sri Lanka. At this event I discussed >>>>>> Cordova with a number of employees from a large IT services company >>>>>> called Virtusa (predominantly India based but with offices in a number >>>>>> of countries). They currently use PhoneGap and were very excited to >>>>>> hear that it was coming to Apache as Cordova. >>>>>> >>>>>> The main problem they had was upskilling their developers. It sounded >>>>>> like there was the potential for widespread use of the Callback code >>>>>> within Virtusa but that training was an issue. Obviously not all their >>>>>> developers would be coming to this community but it was felt that a >>>>>> number might be interested in getting involved and addressing the >>>>>> problems their teams come up against. We therefore discussed ways of >>>>>> kickstarting their involvement. >>>>>> >>>>>> Naturally I discussed some of my own ideas with them, but before we >>>>>> discuss those I wonder if the community ever did this kind of work in >>>>>> the past before coming to the ASF? Do you have any models that have >>>>>> worked well for you in the past? >>>>>> >>>>>> Ross >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Ross Gardler (@rgardler) >>>>>> Programme Leader (Open Development) >>>>>> OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Ross Gardler (@rgardler) >>>>Programme Leader (Open Development) >>>>OpenDirective http://opendirective.com >>> > > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com
