Mike,
I've offered Eclipse IDE classes at Portland Community College (PCC) three times over the past to years. Not one person enrolled in any of these course offerings. Hence PCC sees no need to offer Eclipse classes again. At the same time, I see four to six Microsoft developer certification courses going on each term, which are many times oversubscribed.There's no perceived demand for Eclipse courses--hence they are seldom offered unless someone like me comes along and ask for a class to be offered.
The only people who need/want Eclipse IDE training are those developers who work at an enterprise where use of Eclipse is mandated. Outside of the enterprise, there are many off work and computer hobbyists who use Eclipse, but they are not about to fork several hundred dollars for a class. Yes the enterprise is looking, but the general population not.
We need to get Eclipse in more of a critical mass--which I sense is happening big time. Then the availability of Eclipse training will be widespread.
Pete Mackie
Seaquest Software
--- mike_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: Mike Taylor <mike_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: eclipse.org-membership-at-large@xxxxxxxxxxx, eclipse.org-member-marketing@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: bobby.clark@xxxxxxx, vibha@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [eclipse.org-membership-at-large] Barriers to Eclipse: New Working Group
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 09:12:19 -0700
The recent Evans Data study of the global Eclipse market
identified several barriers to Eclipse use (see below). For the
second year in a row, "lack of Eclipse training" was
identified as the number 1 barrier. Not much farther down the list was
"lack of training for Eclipse plug-ins".
I'd like to organize a new working group to gather some deeper
information on these barriers and it would be great if you and your
organization would participate. Using the Survey Monkey market
research tools available from the Eclipse Foundation I'd like to put
together a more in-depth study of the training barrier and possible
ways to remove it.
Participation doesn't require a lot of time and there will be no
costs for doing the research. We need input on research topics,
questions, and potential solutions. We have the resources to
construct, deploy and analyze the questionnaire...what we really need
is your input on content. The results will be freely shared with
Eclipse members.
Are you interested in helping? Just send me an email and I'll add
you to the mail list for the working group. If there's someone else in
your organization that this message should be directed to, please pass
it on.
Best,
MikeT
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President and CEO
Instantiations, Inc.
Power Tools for Professional Software Developers
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mike_taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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