[Announce] Poll for hands-on XML training offerings in Europe Q1'2010 (X

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Please ignore the following if you have no interest in XML-related training.

In Q1'2010 I will be in Europe a couple of times for some standards 
meetings (OASIS and ISO) and conferences ( http://www.XMLPrague.cz 
and PEPPOL) and I like to take advantage of my presence there by 
offering Crane's hands-on training classes in the week before or 
after each of the events, open to public subscription.

I'll be in Copenhagen in February and in Prague and Stockholm in March.

But it is a gamble to decide on which training class to offer and 
find no-one is interested in that particular topic, because of hotel 
and event obligations that need to be paid in advance or reserved 
with the risk of forfeit.  We realize not many people in these 
economic times have money for training, so we are now trying to 
target our offerings specifically where we learn there is demand and 
availability of students.

Last year's http://www.XMLPrague.cz conference was great and we did 
our training adjacent to the conference and our students were 
conference attendees.  The venue we have chosen again in Prague next 
year has room for only 6 students (a large 14th century hotel room), 
so if XML training at this time of year and in conjunction with the 
conference is of interest to you, it would be important to sign up 
your interest soon.

To address this urgency to start making plans, I am polling the 
various XML lists for any interest in training in these cities early 
next year.  If you are interested in hands-on training on any of 
XSLT, XQuery, XSL-FO, the Universal Business Language or code lists 
in XML, and you would be interested in attending, please let us know 
and we will figure out what we can do.  To see the proposed dates, 
please visit:

   http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/forms/interest.php
   (the page has links to syllabi)

On the form, please indicate all of the offered dates that you would 
be interested in, and we'll make a decision based on the response 
level we get for each class and date.

Thanks!  Please direct any questions to me off-list.

. . . . . . . . . Ken

p.s. it hasn't been decided but I might be in Perth Australia in 
January or February, so you won't see it on the form, but if you are 
in that area, please let me know in a mail message if you are 
interested in training on any of our subjects and we'll see about 
setting up a publicly-subscribed class.

cc: XML-Dev, XSL List, XQuery Talk, XML-Doc, UBL Dev, CLR Dev, 
Antenna House list, RenderX list, MarkLogic list

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