On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 06:08:12PM -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Collyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Stephen> Will do. However, I have been unimpressed with the quality of
> Stephen> most of the free training material I have seen, so my expectations
> Stephen> won't be high.
>
> The problem there is that it really is expensive to do even average
> material, let alone great stuff. We usually budget about a day or two
> of work to get an hour's worth of material. And that's not including
> research time... just pure "dump" time.
Having done a good bit of development of educational material, I'd have
to agree with you - although my own ratio these days is around 15
minutes of material out of a day's work <sigh>. Perhaps snarling at
people who interrupt me may be productive, although it may have
undesirable side effects. :)
> Hats off to people who can donate that much "free" (as in Free Beer)
> time and give it away for others to use. As much as I'd like to do
> that with Stonehenge material, the problem is that I'd be creating my
> own competition then. {grin}
Hmm. I don't see things as being quite that static; if somebody wants
the stuff I was using, say, two years ago, they're welcome to it.
Ben Okopnik
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