Re: Growing FSFE Re: [Fsfe-uk] BBC's DRM Iplayer windows only

[Alex Hudson]

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:10 +0000, Paul Waring wrote:
> There are a number of companies offering training in free software -
> GBDirect (www.gbdirect.co.uk) is just one that I can think of.

Oh indeed, I'm not saying it doesn't happen. But for example, if you
look at their training schedule:

        http://training.gbdirect.co.uk/schedule.html

.... there's not a _huge_ amount of free software on there. I would bet
they do more training in Cisco than any of the free software stuff put
together. And I don't think, in that regard, they'll be much different
to any other org. out there. There is demand there, I just don't think
it's very big, particularly once you get out of Apache/PHP/MySQL, server
admin and vendor (SUSE/RedHat/LPI) training.

> There are other groups as well, but I think such training is generally
> offering by quite small companies who most people might not have heard
> of.

Yeah, I would tend to agree with that. I don't think there's many people
doing it, and those that are doing it are probably very specialised into
specific applications / languages / certs etc. 

Cheers,

Alex.