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Course scheduling and Geekmas - are they traditions yet?
How many years does it take to establish a tradition?
Can I say that this is the time of year when, traditionally, we schedule next year's training program? It's something that we've done here at Well House Consultants since the Summer of 2000, and prior to that it's something I used to be involved in every August (see here and here) at First Alternative. Anyway - next year's course dates are all up on our web site - see http://www.wellho.net/course/index.html and can be booked at 2006 prices if you confirm by 31st December.
Is Geekmas a tradition?. It certainly feel as if it's becoming one, even though this is just its third year. It started in Novermber 2004, with us throwing open our doors for a free two-day series of Open Source talks, lectures, seminars, discussions - and coffee, food and a curry too - on the last weekend of November. Although primarily intended for course delegates who want to catch up on the latest developments, we welcome any and all technical friends, but we do ask you to let us know if you'll be attending ahead of time - there's more details here
This year, our Geekmas celebration moves from our current training centre in The Spa in Melksam to "Well House Manor" - our new business hotel which opens its doors at the end of next month, just a few hundred yards up the road towards the town centre. We'll have space for more people to attend, an additional conference room so that we can run two tracks if need be, and overnight accommodation available (that has to be charged for, I'm afraid) for people who are travelling a distance. (this article written on 2006-08-26) |
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A little more about this newsletter ...
At Well House Consultants, we run niche IT training courses ... and we run a hotel for delegates on those courses and other visitors to Melksham too. And we make a lot of friends - have a lot of ambassadors with whom we want to keep in touch. So every day Graham (that's me, writing this piece) puts together an article or two which might include the latest sample programs that I've written during the current course, new information about
Well House Manor - our business hotel, tips on search engine optimisation,
announcements of upcoming public courses, pictures of local places, and even (on occasions) rants and whimsical pieces to keep those friends up to date and in touch. The feeds are available directlt via the Blog -
"The Horse's Mouth", they're on our
Twitter Feed and you can find me at my
LinkedIn profile.
But most people just want to look us up occasionally - every month or two, and then to catch up on the latest news just for their particular subjects of interest ... and that's what this newsletter is about
You'll find above the titles of ALL the new articles written in the last two months, listed by major subject area, and showing as
(new) with their date of publication. You'll find additional articles in each category too - topping each category up to a minimum of five articles. And you'll find a link at the end of each section which lets you expand that section to show the titles of every article that's been published in that section. After all, "the old ones are often the best ones", aren't they?