Your Survey Answers and the Future of OSTraining

• Advanced classes: We will publish a large number of more advanced classes in 2014.
• A new class release schedule, with live chat: Next week, we going to start a new publishing schedule:
  • Every Monday we’ll launch at least one new class.
  • Every Friday we’ll have a live presentation and Question-and-Answer session on the new class. For example, if we release a new class about jQuery on Monday, you’ll have 5 days to watch the class and then ask us questions on Friday.
• Other purchasing options: We’ll have a trial run of a new, affordable subscription, with videos but no forum support.

We offered prizes to a random selection of survey takers. Here are the main prize winners.

• Nexus 7 tablet: Ellen Rothwax
• 2 annual memberships to OSTraining: Neil Robertson and Scott Staffiery
• We’re also emailed winners of 5 biannual memberships, 3 copies of Joomla Explained and 3 copies of Drupal Explained.

Overall, about three-quarters of OSTraining members believe that the experience was great. 20% think that membership is of  acceptable quality and 3% think that it isn’t good enough.

There was a similar split when it comes to whether OSTraining is good value for money. Most people think that membership is good value, but 1.5% don’t.

Just over 70% of our members have recommended OSTraining to someone else:

80% of you said you would probably take part in live chats.

Because so many of your are working for client or bosses, you told us clearly that you wanted more advanced training you can apply to your work.

Here’s a very typical overview of some of your training requests:

• More detailed tutorials on popular but complex Joomla extensions
• Classes on creating Drupal modules and using the Drupal API.
• More Joomla 3 content. Especially building new modules. More template creation with advanced design features.
• More into custom WordPress design. Breakdown the page and explain how all the code is working.
• The teachers are really good. But I fell I need something more advanced, especially in PHP.
• Drupal Commerce and building stores with Drupal.
• More courses about programming and web applications.
• More in-depth courses on PHP, HTML, CSS and responsive webdesign.
• An advanced level or level 3 certificate for WordPress.
• I would like to see a course in SASS and Compass.
• Bootstrap, intermediate and advanced lessons on Joomla 3.

Starting with this week’s book on AngularJS, we are going to branch out into more advanced topics.

We’re not going to leave behind our roots of offering simple and clear explanations, but we are going to take that approach into new areas.

Thanks to all of you who took our survey. We take your feedback really seriously and it directly impacts the future of OSTraining.