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From: Joshua Meeds <dreamer@sinclair.net>
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Subject: Re: About the short course.
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1998 23:09:27 -0700
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Um, short course?  This is the first I've heard of it.  Sounds like it
was interesting and usefull...

Peter Passmore wrote:
> 
> 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.

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