Posted by uniforce on April 16, 2008 at 4:32am
Start:
2008-05-13 09:30 - 2008-05-15 17:30 Asia/Hong_Kong Event type:
Training (free or commercial)
We have a Drupal training in Hong Kong in May 13-15 2008, as part of our Open Application Fabrication effort (www.openappfab.net)
Please see attached brochure and registration form or download from http://www5.uniforce.net/corp/drupal-training-v1.pdf
It's a living training, meaning that course fee includes one year hosting of Drupal portal that you create in the class.
This is the first class of our Open Training Series, and hope to enrich the community every month with new topic should there be enough audience to attend.
The venue is at Hong Kong Science Park.
Welcome:-)
Email me if you have any question.
Oh language, it can be all in English, or a mix of Mandarin and Cantonese.
Cheers
Francis Kam
Uniforce System
Comments
Hmm?
6900 hkd!!!
Kind of expensive to learn how to install with a web installer and get a sub-domain eh?
If you guys are going to be talking about how to use views, cck, panels etc to build advanced drupal sites then maybe that would be an ok price.
But your own site just uses a contrib theme so how are we supposed to know if you even know how to make a theme? Can we get some demos of sites that you all have built so we can know if we are interested in coming? I know this sounds a bit negative, but I am just trying to figure out if you are just trying to sell some over priced hosting. I hope I am wrong.
Craig Bertrand
Craig Bertrand
hmmm...
We are thinking of doing the same here in malaysia ..but FREE. Rather than ..us being the expert, maybe 2 way learning is the best.
Anyway, Good luck ... too bad, I don't understand any Mandarin and Cantonese
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
-najibx -
<a href="http://www.successideaweb.com>Drupal web developer | designer in Malaysia
Summary after First HK Drupal Class
Hi folks
Sorry for my late reply:-) I took 2 weeks off after teaching the class, just to recover from a soar throat and a stomach ache:-(
Craig gave good comments actually and the pricing seems a bit too high. If lowering it can get more people to benefit, why not.
Doing it free is not new. A lot of on-site and off-site materials are free already, including our own resources. Students who paid us for this class because they make their living our of Drupal and want to speed up this process and be more productive.
Other comments like CCK, View, etc are also well received. We went through developing a small hello world module, customizing a theme, etc on the 3rd day. Some of the class notes were created during the class on http://www.uniforce.net/accept
Well, 3 days are actually too short for many of the things we want to "share" in the class. Bear with us that in reality, those who come might not share the same background. To keep the same pace while making sure some juniors can catch up is not easy. The fact that the course fee comes with hosting also makes it easy for them to realize their portal in one shot.
I hope our next class can be in our office in Shanghai and then next one in Shenzhen, targetting June.
Your opinion is always welcome as I am finding the proper way through to promote Drupal and open source, and from our experience last year in Ningbo running the OpenAppFab site (www.openappfab.net), we find it not easy to "enable" young talents in China to write good PHP and Drupal modules. Out of 300+ software engineering students, I can only get 5 interested, and only 1 being able to come up with a working Drupal module, though that's far from useful. That takes time.... and I figure "Drupal class" is key.
Francis Kam
Uniforce System
Managing Director
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Francis Kam
Uniforce System