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Due to overwhelming demand on the waiting list, a second section of the Introduction to CouchDB Development course has been created. The enrolment is:

David Markvica, Paul Hirst, Garren Smith, Laszlo Zsolt Kiss, Marco Monteiro, Simon Metson, Daniel Pfile, Miles Pomeroy, Erik Pearson, Alon Keren, David Pratt, Delyan Raychev, Sung Chiu, Maciej Małecki, Brad Midgley, Bhaskar teja Yerneni

To confirm enrolment, please follow the instructions emailed to you to register on this site ASAP. Class has started as of today.

Thanks to the overwhelming response, enrolment is now closed. The class roster is:

Timothy Chen, Matt Adams, Bryan Green, Sean Copenhaver, Pete Vander Giessen, Dave Cottlehuber, Roman Geber, Clifford Hung, Jay Zamboni, Kai Wong, Marty Schoch, Travis Paul, Alexander Shorin, Miles Fidelman, Daniel Bryan, David Pratt, Maggie Meng, Nathan Stott, Robert French, Jonathon Mah, "CGS".

To confirm enrolment, please follow the instructions emailed to you to register on this site. This must be completed by 2011-12-18 2359 UTC.

If your name is not listed, you are on a waiting list, prioritized in the order of receipt. You will be contacted on 2011-12-19 with any open spots.

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Introduction to CouchDB Development
- Teacher: Joan Touzet
Based on an informal survey of CouchDB users who are interested in contributing to the project, two key items tend to hold people back:
1. Knowing Erlang (and the CouchDB coding style)
2. Knowing the CouchDB code base
This won't be a traditional classroom course! Through a constructivist, collaborative learning model, students themselves will be shaping the direction of the course, the topics covered, and will be expected to lead at least one week of online discussion.

By the end of course, participants will have learned enough Erlang to have basic competency, and enough about the CouchDB code base to contribute patches and add-ons. The final assignment will be a small-group effort to commit one or more medium-sized patches to the code base.