Course: NetBeans Platform Training

Start: 23 August 2010 - 27 August 2010 (Johanneburg), 30 August 2010 – 3 September 2010 (Cape Town)

Trainers :

• Mark Clarke, Geertjan Wielenga

Basic Information :

• Country: South Africa
• City/Region: Gauteng/Western Cape
• Type of training: Lecture based
• Cost of training (for learner): R5 800
• Mode of training (class room based, online, blended): Class room
• Objectives / learning outcome:

  The main course objective is to train students in the NetBeans Platform, an open source technology. The objective of the ict@innovation module will be to expose users of this open source technology to the FLOSS philosophy and plant the seed in their minds as to how they can make better use of FLOSS and take their organisaitons further along the FLOSS business model ladder.

The course syllabus for the NetBeans platform can be found here

The content for the ict@innovation module will be based on Module 1 of the course material “Advanced Training Material on Africa Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Business Models for IT-SMEs”. The content will be localised to software development organisations using floss in their products, to take them along the curve from users to contributors and finally initiators of FLOSS software.

Training Facilities :

• Physical place: Unit 3 Appian Place, 373 Kent Avenue, Ferndale, 2091 and ISS International (23 Electron Street) in Technopark, Stellenbosch

• Link to Online learning space: www.netbeanstraining.co.za also see out facebook page

• Further information as applicable