Workshops for 2014 May, June, July Batch

[balupton]

Discuss possible workshops to be held at Hacker Retreat between May, June and July.

Workshops are listed here: https://github.com/HackerRetreat/meta/wiki/Workshops

Proposed Workshops:

• NodeSchool Berlin
• Noflo.js training with @bergie
• Keystone a framework for building node.js based content management systems
• web rtc - building real time communication applications (video, camera, peer 2 peer networking) with html, css and javascript
• web components - building reusable standards based components for the web with html, css, and javascript — with modern web technologie
• error handling and flow control in javascript and node.js — learn the best practices for building robust applications in javascript and node.js
• state of the stack — what are the latest best practices and technologies for javascript

Open to suggestions.

With enough +1s for specific suggestions, I'll create the necessary pages for the event so we can start publicising it.

Workshops while I'm at the retreat can all be recorded if desired.

[balupton]

Possible workshops and prices

€5 - Monday 23rd: DocPad, night workshop
€5 - Tuesday 24th: KeystoneJS, night workshop

€15 - Wednesday 25th: Browserify & Web Components, night workshop
€5 - Thursday 26th: Web Components & Web RTC, night workshop

€5 - Saturday 28th: NodeSchool, day workshop

€15 - Monday 30th: Professional JavaScript Error Handling and Flow Control, night workshop
€10 - Tuesday 1st: ChainyJS, night workshop
€15 - Wednesday 2nd: Javascript+Node.js Performance & Debugging, night workshop
€15 - Thursday 3rd: Node.js Command Line Interfaces, night workshop
€99 - Saturday 5th: Professional Node.js Desktop Apps, day workshop

Will finalise prices and do up pages for them this weekend.

[balupton]

Here's an idea for a 10 week workshop, week by week:

1. JavaScript
2. Node Basics
3. Application Flow
4. Browserify + HTML & CSS
5. Server & Rendering

Then we split the team into backend and frontend programmers. Backend programmers get:

1. Server Structure
2. API Server
3. Database
4. Scaling
5. Tying it together

Frontend programmers get:

1. DOM
2. Forms
3. Model Driven Views
4. Responsive Design
5. Tying it together

They all work on the same project, which will be a real world useful FOSS thing, built from the ground up.

[Rob-Morris]

I think it would be good to work unit tests and automated build & deploy in there... and some process stuff: requirements analysis, solution design, release management + how to leverage open source & NPM.

[balupton]

+1