Re: marketing a perl class

>>>>> "j" == joseph  <[email protected]> writes:

  j> On 20 Mar, Elaine -HFB- Ashton wrote:
  >> Also, I wouldn't call a class of 50 small. Sun runs a class out in
  >> Burlington for $1500-$1900 but the class is 5 days and the
  >> enrollment is limited to 15 people.
  >> 
  j> $999 for a 2-day class of 50 is reasonable, I GUESS, but anything
  j> larger than 20 pretty much rules out serious individual
  j> student-teacher face time.  Seems like being lectured to for 2 days
  j> should be cheaper than that, but people pay $2500 to go to 5 day
  j> lab classes taught by people who don't know their material, so
  j> there would seem to be no shortage of potential takers from the
  j> money perspective.

i get the point about 50 being a large maximum. i think i will lower
that to 35-40. even so, i think this will afford decent interaction with
damian. he claims to be able to teach many more than that at once. and
if it is oversubscribed, i am not sure what to do. that may depend on
how many extra students there are.

  j> Being "in the presence" of someone is a lot less fulfilling than
  j> actually having time to interact if you choose to.

that depends on the way the class is run and the teacher. i generally
don't like large lectures myself. they run too slowly for my taste and
there isn't much interaction. too small a group doesn't work
logistically with overhead and expenses. i am still trying to figure out
the best way to produce this. 

  j> The additional $600-1200 for a room is just obscene, but I guess
  j> there's nothing that can be done about that.

unless you know a place where you can set up a class for 35 people and
not have to pay for it. :)

uri

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