Our 3rd Birthday Gifts to You

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Yep, today is our 3rd birthday.

We’ve been providing open source training since 2007, but we only became a company called Open Source Training on February 1st, 2010.

We’ve come a long way, but rather than look back, we’re going focus on the future.

We have some gifts for you. Our gifts are four major improvements to your experience at OSTraining:

Improvement #1: Over 1000 Sessions

1000-sessionsLast month we added our 1000th video session.

Right now we have 1029 training sessions and we have some ambitious goals for the coming year:

  • Last year we added over 500 new videos. We aim to beat that number in 2013.
  • We plan to add at least two new training classes every month.
  • We’re going to add new areas beyond simply Joomla, WordPress and Drupal.
  • Many of the classes we create will be based directly on what you want to learn.

Improvement #2: Quizzes and Certificates

Since 2007, we’ve given completion certificates to people attending our live classes.

We’re now going to give completion certificates for everyone taking our online classes too.

Each online class will have a series of quizzes that leads to a final exam:

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If you pass the exam, you’ll get a certificate that looks like the image below. You’ll be able to download and print out your certificates.
The first quizzes and certificates will be available next week.
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Improvement #3: Captions

captionsThis is one of the most requested features from our members.
We’ve had a lot of members with poor or no hearing capability. It’s time for us to add captions to our videos to serve them better.
We’re going to be rolling out captions in the next few weeks.
If you’d like to be one of the first people to use our captions, please send an email to support@ostraining.com.

Improvement #4: Video Discussions

commentsWe have a support forum with tens of thousands of questions.

We also have a training area with over a thousand videos.

However, until now we haven’t connected the two. It hasn’t been possible to start a discussion about a particular video.

We’re going to combine our videos and forum so that there will always be a discussion area beneath each video. These video discussions will be available in the next two weeks.

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Thank You

Let me close by saying a huge “Thank You” to every one of over 10,000 people who have been an OSTraining member since 2010.

The daily interaction with you is what makes OSTraining worthwhile.

We love the questions you post, the suggestions you make and the feedback you give.

We love seeing your successes and the sites you build.

We love partnering with you to learn and solve problems.

Thank you!

Author

  • Steve Burge

    Steve is the founder of OSTraining. Originally from the UK, he now lives in Sarasota in the USA. Steve's work straddles the line between teaching and web development.

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walldorff
11 years ago

Congratulations on this 3rd birthday and many happy returns!

Roland

jgdiver50
11 years ago

Congratulations on another milestone.

The video training is already terrific. The support is also, well, terrific.

Looking forward to the enhancements you’re giving us for your birthday.

Thanks,

webJim

Zoldar
Zoldar
11 years ago

Congratulations guys, just glad one of the gifts wasn’t reduced membership as I just added an extra staff member yesterday and that would of made me go s**t should of waited a day lol.

Your training is really the best and we will continue to use it as the years continue.

Joseph
Joseph
11 years ago

Happy birthday!

By reading the title, I thought you are going to give out some birthday discount coupon too 🙂

blueblot
11 years ago

Congrats OS team

keep up the good work

Kris

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ErickE
ErickE
11 years ago

Hi, what are you using to do the video discussions?

Thanks,

Erick

critterdesignstudio
11 years ago

Congrats to the OS team on your milestone. May you keep growing. Your training and support is exceptional and has transformed my Joomla experience. Really looking forward to trying the quizzes.

Bev

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