Re: Foundation sponsored training (was: Some perspective on...)

[Ted Gould <ted gould cx>]

Davyd Madeley wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 02:13 -0400, Nat Friedman wrote:
> > Work to make the GNOME web site better, work to market GNOME better and
> > explain it, work to solicit sponsorship and endorsement of governments,
> > work to organize global training seminars like Trolltech does for Qt.
> > And on and on and on.  Jeff Waugh has summarized this work nicely a
> > number of times.
>
> I want to point out that the idea of developer and user training is an
> excellent idea. I would love to be given the opportunity to be involved
> in delivering this sort of training, as I'm sure would many others.

I think that there is a good template for this from the 
Trolltech/Linspire/KDE camp here:

http://www.osdw.org/

I asked them about doing GNOME based desktop trainings, and they weren't 
entirely against it.  I'm not sure that they have the expertise.  I 
volunteered, but perhaps someone from the board contacting them would 
have more significance.

I think one of the most expensive parts of doing something like this is 
the facility.  I believe the Sun office here by LAX has some training 
rooms.  I'm more than happy to volunteer facilities I have no control 
over or responsibility for :)

		--Ted