A discussion of using git (in particular on github) is one of the items for next week's meeting. I suggested it after realizing that I didn't manage a change properly with an R package I'm developing with a colleague I've never met but have been sharing development with for the last couple of years. Your input would be most welcome. JN On 2019-10-28 8:40 a.m., Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > I hope I'm not straying too far from the mandate for this list, but > I'm going to take a chance as it's the opportunity for some folks in > town to get some free seminars or some of my Git training at no > charge. > > As a way to promote my Git classes (and other training courses), I > thought one way to get some attention would be to just offer some > presentations at absolutely no charge, and I'm considering the > following two possibilities. > > First, I'm willing to give free lunchtime presentations to > corporations that can put together enough people who are interested. I > can easily talk on intro Git for 40-50 minutes just to give attendees > at least a basic understanding of Git. Obviously, the end goal would > be to then eventually sell the full courses, but the short > presentation would be no charge, and no real limit on how many people > could attend (short of violating a fire code of some kind, of course. > :-) So, there's that. > > I'm also considering a slightly more ambitious promotion, wherein I > would offer my full 1-day Introductory Git class at absolutely no > charge, but it would be limited to just one person per distinct > company. The idea here would be, naturally, that a company could pick > one engineer to get the instruction, then go back and recommend the > course to the team. > > I'm intersted in list members' feedback on either of these ideas. > The lunchtime seminar thing is basically available right now, the free > full-day course would make more sense, say, early January since it > would take some organizing. > > Thoughts? If you and your company are interested, by all means, drop > me a note. If you know someone at another company who might be > interested, let them know. > > Rob Day > > P.S. I'm currently designing some Docker/container courses, and am > thinking of doing the same with those. > > P.P.S. I'm currently on contract out in Kanata, so interest out here > would be ideal. > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org