Those events support the local community, what I'm talking about is an injection of enthusiasm that non-CF people will get excited about attending. (not necessarily the same event as above)
In the early 2000's there was a groundswell of excitement around this tech, just wanting to work out how to get it rolling again. Adobe has the cash from the product, just needs to put money back into promotion of the product at grass roots and management levels. Dawesi On Monday, 26 November 2012 17:31:30 UTC+11, Barry Beattie wrote: > > easy. > > form an organisation with a catchy name and/or grass roots. > Find a training venue (QANTM Sydney in Surry Hills?) > > Tap into interest for people wanting to change careers or hitting a > wall with their current one: > > "What does a career in Ruby look like in the Sydney area? > Ruby on Rails is a cool technology. In Australia, the average starting > salary for a Ruby on Rails developer is about AUD80k. The high > Tech/Start-up community is booming down-under and we all need skilled > Ruby developers to turn Sydney into the next Silicon Valley!" > > charge tuition to cover it (you gotta at least pay the trainers and > venue for the training space - we've all got mouths to feed) > > "The cost for the semester is AUD 8,000. However, we will give you a > AUD 1,000 discount if you pay the entire tuition upfront as we want > our program to be affordable for everyone" > > $8k is either expensive or reasonable - depending on how valuable it > is personally and if you get any recognised certification at the end > of it. I've paid too much for the IIBA courses I've done but felt I > had no choice. > > Please don't think I'm being cynical - I've just learned to read > between the lines when it comes to training. There's no such thing as > a free lunch. I've taken a job delivering "free training" (really: no > monetary cost to the participant) - but the tab is being picked up by > the Federal Govt (sorry, not CF). > > If you want "Passion, enthuisasm" then supporting cf.Objective(ANZ) > comes to mind. Or WebDU for that matter. Or, dare I say it ... the > local CF user group? > > I'll shut up now and crawl back into my hole. > > Barry Beattie > > > > > > On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Dawesi <daw...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > Passion, enthuisasm > > > > events like this: > > > > http://www.sydneydevcamp.com/ > > > > Adobe needs to stop just collecting money from the 'ATM that keeps on > > giving' are share it around to reboot the community and therefore > increase > > sales! > > > > Just a thought. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > > "cfaussie" group. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cfaussie/-/beuwurQMw5MJ. > > To post to this group, send email to cfau...@googlegroups.com<javascript:>. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > cfaussie+u...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/cfaussie/-/_ac50i1-e2MJ. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
