Just sharing my personal experience... I had the same idea last during beginning of my fourth semester. I started it free as in free beer. A good number of students gathered to hear me in beginning. probably 50 of them in couple of classes. I use to take one class weekly, on saturdays (not holiday here) after the class use to be over. After that in third n fourth week the number decreased pathetically, dont know if I was poor at my presentation or they just loosed interest.
Then I changed the entire plan. Just kept a gap n informed all the students including juniors n seniors (before took only for classmates) and kept registration charge (very minimal) and fixed number of attenders to 25 mentioning that if more are interested an additional day in week can be arranged for them in different time n day. worked well. Many registered n started coming for class :) :) as they pay they feel like coming. when they dont they can anytime make mind to leave. In a couple of week had to ask my fellow to take another class for additional 20 students who came along. Now since we are having exams we had a break and will continue the classes again in new sessions :) Thought my experience would be helpful here so wrote. Pleases suggest me too how to improve this. Thanks, Chandan On 7/14/10, Jwalanta Shrestha <[email protected]> wrote: > i have my big 'yay' on this. however doing it "free as in beer" is perhaps > not a good idea. we can take nominal fee *just to* cover refreshments, etc; > also helps filter out the real interested ones. foss nepal community still > lags in real code contribution, perhaps these kind of classes might fix > that. > > also, running the class everyday continuously might be hard on both trainer > and trainee end. why dont we spread the classes over holidays > (saturday/sunday) and treat each class like hackathon. then till next class > everybody can code on the ideas generated during the class. > > ~jwalanta > > > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:31 PM, pravin joshi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Walking on the road this evening, I came across an idea. How many >> takers would I get if I were to run a set of python classes (for >> free)? My plan is to run classes in what I call "from Idea to code" >> style, where everyday we take an idea, design the program (outlines, >> algorithms, etc.), then research on what are the pieces of python that >> we would use and then finally write the code to get the final product. >> So I could run 10-15 classes and then Jwalanta or someone else can >> enlighten us with git and/or other versioning tools for few classes. >> And then as a grand finale the entire group will try and build a small >> product to be released as open source. >> Also we will record each of these classes to be made into video (with >> screen capture) for later use. For whatever 2cent idea I have of >> python I am thinking this just might be good. >> Again any takers for this??? >> >> -- >> FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] >> http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: >> [email protected]<foss-nepal%[email protected]> >> >> Mailing List Guidelines: >> http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines >> Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ > > -- > FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > Mailing List Guidelines: > http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines > Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
