Hey Wes -- Travel and paper is so 80's bro. Have you considered an online format? I think a five day session where 2-3 are basics and the remaining 2-3 are advanced topics would be flexible. This way you could price the two separately and allow clients one or both enrollments. As far as course materials goes, I think S2iA and your S2iP would be great resources, and hey, they are already written and have labs! The marketing piece is outside my area of expertise. I was a corporate trainer for several years and would be interested in pair-teaching with you if this pans out.
Peace, Scott On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Wes Wannemacher <w...@wantii.com> wrote: > Hello fellow-struts-ers, > > I have been toying with the notion of hosting a struts training, but > I'm not convinced that it is a good business move for me. I am > wondering about a few things and figured who better to ask than the > community... Questions / Discussion Topics - > > 1.) I'm in Ohio, US, so naturally this is where I would want to host > it, but I'm not sure if there would be enough interest to get people > to actually fly here. I have been working out of Dayton which has a > large airport and plenty of hotels (that I could probably work out a > deal on a discount), is that enough or is there another area (SF, NY) > where I might be better off traveling myself to host something. > > 2.) What topics would you guys pay to learn? I think there are a few > what I would call basic struts2 trainings available I've seen... If I > (as one of the committers) were to host a training, would basic be > okay, or would you guys want something more advanced? If so, what sort > of topics would you guys want to see? > > 3.) How should I advertise something like this? Obviously there are > google keywords and an announce list (I think there is an announce > list), but I think there are more than a few large-ish companies using > Struts 2 or WebWork and I would want to reach into there and I don't > think a lot of those users don't participate in the mailing lists, > etc. > > 4.) Training format... I've been to training in classrooms where all I > had was a notebook (actual paper, not laptop/notebook) and other > trainings in classrooms with PCs. For a Struts training, which would > people prefer? > > Anyhow, I'm invoking the lazy friday and hopefully no one gets too > angry about my off-topic spam. > > -Wes > > -- > Wes Wannemacher > Author - Struts 2 In Practice > Includes coverage of Struts 2.1, Spring, JPA, JQuery, Sitemesh and more > http://www.manning.com/wannemacher > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@struts.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@struts.apache.org > >
