Ruby Training / marketing
Paul Wilson
I'm looking for a bit of help and advice marketing some Ruby courses
Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien are giving in Edinburgh in November: two
day Ruby and a three day Rails course, 9-13 November. Part of the
problem is that those most likely to want these courses are those
that I can't reach and don't know who JIm Weirich is, because they are
not yet in the Ruby community.
What I think we need to do is to try and reach other communities
(Java, .Net, PHP, etc) and persaude some of them that learning some
Ruby and/or Rails would be enriching in some way.
Does anyone here contacts in those other communities in the Ireland?
Or different ideas?
Alternatively, if anyone would like, or knows someone who would like,
Ruby and/or Rails training here is a discount to code to use
IRUGDISCOUNT at http://edgecase.com/training).
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Paul Wilson
http://edgecase.com
http://merecomplexities.com
http://scottishrubyconf.com/
PS I'm posting similar messages to other RUGs - I'm hunting
alternative contacts in different regions.
SteveQ
Re: Contacts, you could try
- Barry Alistair at http://irishdev.com. He's organised a number of
irish developer conferences.
- Martha Rotter from Microsoft Ireland (http://blogs.msdn.com/
martharotter/default.aspx)
- Sean O'Donnell from Python Ireland (http://blog.odonnell.nu/
contact/)
I'm sure the others could chime in with more contacts for Java, PHP,
Linux etc.
Hope that helps,
Steve
P.S. Tell Alan C. Francis I said Hi :)
On Oct 22, 10:47 pm, Paul Wilson <merecomplist...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a bit of help and advice marketing some Ruby courses
> Jim Weirich and Joe O'Brien are giving in Edinburgh in November: two
> day Ruby and a three day Rails course, 9-13 November. Part of the
> problem is that those most likely to want these courses are those
> that I can't reach and don't know who JIm Weirich is, because they are
> not yet in the Ruby community.
>
> What I think we need to do is to try and reach other communities
> (Java, .Net, PHP, etc) and persaude some of them that learning some
> Ruby and/or Rails would be enriching in some way.
>
> Does anyone here contacts in those other communities in the Ireland?
> Or different ideas?
>
> Alternatively, if anyone would like, or knows someone who would like,
> Ruby and/or Rails training here is a discount to code to use
> IRUGDISCOUNT at http://edgecase.com/training).
>
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