Laurent and me live in Paris. We work for a big international french company.
We were aware about these formations since last year because we are tapestry followers. Last year, in may 2009, our client wanted to migrate from struts 1.x to tapestry 5.x. We started to learn Tapestry by ourselves. After that, we followed an external formation in June 2009 (Paris), 3 days with a similar cost. Our company had no problem to send us despite of the price. Later, we knew you where coming to Paris and we even thought on a second formation as first one was very light. Our company was ok to send us to a second formation with you. Despite of the cost again! Small freelancers might see the cost as problem... but not companies. Migration was in standby and finally we didn't do it... (we where sad). We where very disappointed and we had the felling that Tapestry was not known in our company. So we coded a Tapestry Demo and we started to do an internal tapestry publicity. We did a presentation in order to make people know Tapestry. We arrived to make somebody to choose Tapestry as the presentation framework on a internal project. Workers making other people inside their companies to know Tapestry - despite on their actual missions - it's mandatory. Globally speaking, we have noticed the name "Tapestry" is known by several people in France, but in general we have checked that people don't know the framework at all. The point is that in France nobody has already done a JUG conference about Tapestry (neither Paris JUG or a smaller JUGs). We can't say the same thing about JSF 2 and Wicket, for example; jsf 2 and wicket people have done several presentations all over France Jugs during the last couple of years. Publicity, not only in big conferences where not everybody can go, is mandatory. Experts giving conferences and presentations in their countries and cities make people's interest to grow. Obviously there are probably more factors. :-) 2010/8/5 Howard Lewis Ship <hls...@gmail.com> > I'm once again partnering with SkillsMatter to teach my full Tapestry > workshop. This is an expanded version of the class, which is growing from > three days up to four; the additional day will ensure that we have time for > all the existing materials, and add a new section on testing using TestNG, > Selenium and Groovy. It will also give us more time to explore student > directed ideas, such as security and meta-programming. > > The class will be taught at SkillsMatter's offices in London, from October > 5th through the 8th. > > I'm curious how many people are aware of this training, and how many people > are located geographically to take advantage of it. I've done the 3 day > version of the class twice at SkillsMatter, and I'm looking forward to the > full 4 day class. > > I'd like to start a discussion about what it would take to get more people > to attend the class, and/or what's keeping people from attending (cost, > location, etc.). > > Two other notes: > > - There will probably be another teach in Paris, in December > - The workshop is normally taught on-site for a specific company (I do such > a teach 2 - 3 times / year) > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > Creator of Apache Tapestry > > The source for Tapestry training, mentoring and support. Contact me to > learn > how I can get you up and productive in Tapestry fast! > > (971) 678-5210 > http://howardlewisship.com >
