One side-effect of posting this workshop announcement myself that I hadn't counted on was the opportunity to hear from some Dutch friends and acquaintances, and they've reminded me of something that I wanted to stress. I'll keep it short.

This really IS a workshop for beginners, with the specific intent of working with those fine people who have little or no experience with Max/MSP/Jitter. It's our goal to encourage that specific audience [I tell my workshop groups that my expressed goal is to help train a new generation of Max users who don't make the beginner mistakes we read here all the time, and thus to make life more interesting for the Max list and for customer support]. There are various workshop-like things that attempt to serve a variety of levels of understanding at the same time, but this isn't one of them. When we have these workshops domestically, my colleague Jill has a chance to talk to prospective attendees and let 'em know what we're up to and why. It'll be a little tougher to do this long-distance, so I thought I'd err on the side of disclosure.

At some point, we'll be doing workshops that center on what I would think of as more "intermediate" skills [scripting/advanced plug-in design and building/Java and Javascript/Open GL and slabbery], but we're not doing that this time around.

The Dutch have a great saying: "Een goed begin is 't halve werk" (A good start is half the work). *That*s* what we're going for here.

with regards, gregory