Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: Peter Passmore Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: About the short course. Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 15:34:42 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 32 Message-ID: <35C47902.1490@mdx.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: staff-dialup1.mdx.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04 (Win95; I) The first short course went really well and the feedback was very positive. The week was supposed to start at 9:30 on Monday but everybody arrived en masse at 9:15 and got straight onto the kit. The week ended on Friday at 8 o'clock with a marathon 5 player multitapped Micro Machines 3 session using the data projector (12 feet x 12 feet image). I'm glad to say the Middlesex man (Robert Swan I mean) came out ahead. DEnis will be putting up some web pages which might cover the bits between Monday and Friday. BTW DEnis is not a regular guy, more like a primal force. When we met him he told us about all the people he had buggered which seemed to include most of SCEE from the MD down, and the BBC. The range of people seemed improbable. However it turned out that what he meant was bugged not buggered, and it was just a temporarilly worrying speech anomaly of his which I hope we managed to correct. What made the course was the enthusiasm and creativity of all the people attending, working in groups turned out well, and we all learnt a lot. Half of the people attending were already Yaroze members and it was great to meet everybody and put faces to names. It was also international, we had Sam Gharabally come over from the US, DEnis from Holland, Karl Sigiscar from France, and John Tynan and Alan Colohan from Ireland. It was also surprising to see the number of MAC and CW users. It was amazing how far people got just over a few days and I look forward to seeing the completed projects. A few people were asking about a follow on course which I may try to organise but don't hold your breath. Depending on demand we may try to organise one more intro course for September (& I think there are still a few places for August 17th). Anyway it was a fun week, and all power to you guys. Peter.