Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-15 Thread Ben Okopnik
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 09:18:52AM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 11:23:55PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:14:44PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > > > Now, can we *>PLEASE<* stop with the semantic games? > > > > I'm not sure who you're speaking to her

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread _brian_d_foy
[this is will the last thing i post about this] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Hicks) wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, _brian_d_foy wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Hicks) wrote: > > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Prince-Colbath wrote: > > > > Allow custom

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread David N. Blank-Edelman
Howdy- Not sure this issue is worth the time this would take, but perhaps something like the trust metric system found at http://www.advogato.org/ would help with these concerns? Peace, dNb

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, _brian_d_foy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Hicks) wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Prince-Colbath wrote: > > > Allow customers to post anonymous ratings/reviews of the trainers on > > > the list and be done with it. > > Open public feedback has worked quite well

RE: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Chris Prince-Colbath
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 11:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Perl Training Directory In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Hicks) wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Prince-Colbat

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Hicks) wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Prince-Colbath wrote: > > Allow customers to post anonymous ratings/reviews of the trainers on > > the list and be done with it. > Open public feedback has worked quite well for Ebay, Amaz

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Smylers
Chris Prince-Colbath wrote: > It would be more important to have a larger list of trainers that > people could call and investigate from than to only list a few people > that have been "proven" by some group who can't completely agree on > what "proven" even means. Why can't both exist? Gabor i

RE: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Chris Prince-Colbath wrote: > Allow customers to post anonymous ratings/reviews of the trainers on > the list and be done with it. Open public feedback has worked quite well for Ebay, Amazon, imdb and many others. Providing some sort of rating system would seem to be pretty

RE: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Chris Prince-Colbath
P:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:15 PM To: Ben Okopnik Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: Perl Training Directory On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:52:04AM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:22:46

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Ben Okopnik
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 07:14:44PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:52:04AM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > > > > Hmm. Not trying to start a war, just curious; does "proven" mean "vetted by > > you"? I'm sure you're amply qualified to judge the quality of instruction, > > etc.,

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-13 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Adam Turoff [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>Now, can we *>PLEASE<* stop with the semantic games? It's not that *>difficult of a problem. I know that brian and I are not the only *>ones here who have issues with listing "Perl Trainers" who are *>incapable of locating a syntax error or haven't see

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-12 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 08:52:04AM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote: > On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:22:46AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote: > > 'proven' means just what it means when i said it - to determine the > > truth of a statement. there are plenty of people who claim to be > > Perl programmers or trainer

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-12 Thread Ben Okopnik
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 12:22:46AM -0500, _brian_d_foy wrote: > > 'proven' means just what it means when i said it - to determine the > truth of a statement. there are plenty of people who claim to be > Perl programmers or trainers who don't use or teach Perl. some > of them even write books ab

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Smylers [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>brian d foy wrote: *> *>> if you don't beleive me, look at how many people recommend Matt *>> Wright, for instance. *> *>[Um ... I was actually joking when I started writing the above, but now *>I'm not so sure. Certainly "avoid Matt's Script Archive" is somet

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread Johan Vromans
Elaine -HFB- Ashton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Maybe trainers could submit their course evaluation results or > something? Good idea. Can you read dutch? -- Johan

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread Smylers
brian d foy wrote: > if you don't beleive me, look at how many people recommend Matt > Wright, for instance. I'd recommend Matt Wright's code -- it has many pedagogical uses: * demonstrating how working with Perl rather than against it can make code much simpler and easier to understand (

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elaine -Hfb- Ashton) wrote: > _brian_d_foy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>> and you can simply say 'comes highly recommended' or somesuch and add a > *>> few nice comments/feedback from actual students. > *> > *>anyone can find a few nice

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
_brian_d_foy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>> and you can simply say 'comes highly recommended' or somesuch and add a *>> few nice comments/feedback from actual students. *> *>anyone can find a few nice comments, so they are hardly useful. In the perl community? Perhaps a bit overly optimistic.

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-11 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elaine -Hfb- Ashton) wrote: > Gabor Szabo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *> > *>I can do this but I am a bit worried that it is too unscientific. I could > *>even add a way to add comments but that could make even more problems. > Well, trainer f

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-10 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Gabor Szabo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I can do this but I am a bit worried that it is too unscientific. I could *>even add a way to add comments but that could make even more problems. Well, trainer feedback would be almost exclusively subjective, not objective so there's no way around that

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2001.12.10 17:38 Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote: > > I will be happy to add it to the CPAN FAQ trainging section. I appreciate that ! >One thing > you > might consider is encouraging people to send either to you directly or > via > the web page recommendations based on personal experience..mayb

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2001.12.10 19:51 _brian_d_foy wrote: > > if you are really motivated, you could build a small database > (maybe even XML based). From that, you can generated all sorts > of different lists -- by country, by language, by course > offerings, and so on. local Perl user groups could then list >

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-10 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo) wrote: > My point is exactly giving a better opportunity for the local companies > as well. I belive that no matter how good Stonhenge or TCPC are a > course delivered in the local language (and not in US English) can be > superior

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-10 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Gabor Szabo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>I thought that perl.org would list such companies as well. It takes a lot of work...:) *>Anyway I'd be glad if you added a link to perltraining.org with the *>disclaimer *>that you feel proper. I think it would benefit the Perl community. I will be ha

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-10 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2001.12.10 07:54 _brian_d_foy wrote: > no. proven just means that you actually teach Perl, which is very > different from will-teach-Perl-if-i-get-paid-to. on this one we agree. > as far as www.perl.org > goes, you should also be able to satisfy more than just a local > customer base. >

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-09 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo) wrote: > I have also added an explanation to the site that sais people should do > their own > research before buying. that's the sticking point. i think any company that is listed should be reputable, safe, and provide a good pr

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-09 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Benson) wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:43:13PM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > > > > i actually mean proven - as in there is evidence that they actually > What sort of evidence are you thinking of? I was very afraid 'proven' > meant:

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-09 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2001.12.09 20:52 Chris Benson wrote: > On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:43:13PM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > > > > i actually mean proven - as in there is evidence that they actually > > What sort of evidence are you thinking of? I was very afraid 'proven' > meant: 'has been to all the conference

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-09 Thread Chris Benson
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 10:43:13PM -0800, brian d foy wrote: > > i actually mean proven - as in there is evidence that they actually What sort of evidence are you thinking of? I was very afraid 'proven' meant: 'has been to all the conferences (and bought rounds)', 'written books', 'got lots o

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-09 Thread _brian_d_foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo) wrote: > On 2001.12.08 03:40 Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > D'oh. Why did you write to? If you are still interested then write > > to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we can get you set up. > > > BTW who exactly should I contact at perl

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-09 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Elaine -Hfb- Ashton) wrote: > brian d foy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: > *>everyone on http://www.perl.org/phbs/training.html has > *>a proven record of training and i would not hestiate to > *>recommend any of them. i can't be so sure of other

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2001.12.07 23:05 brian d foy wrote: > > I have setup a directory of Perl Training companies and Perl Trainers > at > > http://www.perltraining.org/ organized per country. > > this might violate perltraining.com's service mark since it would > create confusion in the marketplace by using a ver

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
brian d foy [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *> *>> I have setup a directory of Perl Training companies and Perl Trainers at *>> http://www.perltraining.org/ organized per country. *> *>this might violate perltraining.com's service mark since it would *>create confusion in the marketplace by using a ver

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread Gabor Szabo
On 2001.12.08 03:40 Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > > D'oh. Why did you write to? If you are still interested then write > to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] so we can get you set up. > > > BTW who exactly should I contact at perl.org for this ? > khm, khm, I guess I wrote to the wrong address as I scrol

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo) writes: [...] > I offered to do this on a voluntary basis under the umbrella of > perl.org replacing the current page on www.perl.org ( > http://www.perl.org/phbs/training.html ) which has not been > maintained for while - but has not received any reply yet. D'oh.

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread Dave Cross
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 01:24:25AM +0200, Gabor Szabo ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I offered to do this on a voluntary basis under the umbrella of perl.org > replacing the current page on www.perl.org ( > http://www.perl.org/phbs/training.html ) > which has not been maintained for while - but

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread Elaine -HFB- Ashton
Gabor Szabo [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: *>So right now it is voluntary on my own :) *>BTW who exactly should I contact at perl.org for this ? Looks nice :) brian d foy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ask Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> are the best people to contact about perl.org. e.

Re: Perl Training Directory

2001-12-08 Thread brian d foy
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gabor Szabo) wrote: > I have setup a directory of Perl Training companies and Perl Trainers at > http://www.perltraining.org/ organized per country. this might violate perltraining.com's service mark since it would create confusion in the marke