training

Hey, just in case you weren't aware, there's an IRC (group IM) channel specifically for Drupaldephia folks . . .

you can find it through Freenode.net with the moniker #drupaldelphia:
irc://irc.freenode.net/drupaldelphia

you can access it with any IRC client. It's easy if you have Firefox by using Chatzilla
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/16/

There isn't one for Chrome but you can use a web-based client like Mibbit
http://www.mibbit.com/

I'm there as BeWhy . . .usually you select the same name that you use for drupal.org

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I'm pleased to announce some of Chapter Three's upcoming classes, to be taught in the Financial District in San Francisco. We are offering two classes on basic site building in August, and a beginning Theming class in September. We're looking forward to growing the number of Drupalists and Drupalistas across the globe, so come join us! (save 15% by booking more than one class)

I'm seriously considering investing in myself by buying some training, taking a few days off my job and going on a course for such things. I've done a bit of google searching but I thought I'd ask here for recommendations, durations, price guides/ranges.

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I run an intensive IT program for university business students (in accounting, marketing. management, etc.). The program has special IT courses, plus project work for companies.

I plan to move the program towards Drupal (currently pure MS tech). I'm looking for suggestions. There's a longer post at http://drupal.org/node/812754.

Kieran

Any suggestions for a provider of in-a-classroom PHP and/or JavaScript trainings? So far I've looked at Global Knowledge, Westlake, and HOTT.

Related question -- Global Knowledge has a 2-day Intro to PHP course that seems decent (especially for the price), but only "virtual classroom" options. That is, UNLESS I can say that more than just me would be attending.

Here's the course info:
http://www.globalknowledge.com/training/course.asp?pageid=9&courseid=940...

I'm reposting this here from http://drupalkata.com/curriculum/node/466 at Gus Austin's request.

Inspired by the IRC discussion on 3 May, here are some notes on criteria by which we could judge the success of a curriculum design project. Sorry, it's all very sketchy and provisional but perhaps can serve as some sort of contribution to the discussion.

A useful/good curriculum will have the following properties (sort of a unit test for the curriculum):

http://www.lullabot.com/ideas/videos

Inspired by another post by an obvious academic: how many of you would attend a weekend training session that included accommodations, recreation (surf camp with training and equipment) at reasonable cost? Would $750 be reasonable for three days, including luxury room on weekend at beach and one free drink per day, mixers...