Thread by @XenoKovah

There’s one week left to register for the first-ever in-person #OST2 all-you-can-learn buffet class on x86-64 assembly, OS internals, and firmware: hardwear.io/netherlands-20…

There’s a lot of open questions around this experiment, most notably “will students be interested in coming to an in-person training to get direct support instead of just taking the free online version?” And so far the answer seems to be yes

The fact that I have multiple attendees, even while we’re in the midst of the pandemic, and everyone’s still a bit skittish about in-person conferences and trainings makes me very optimistic about the format for the future

My hope is that if I can show other instructors that they can still teach paid in-person training if they want to, that they’ll be more interested in putting their material up on OST2

(My personal hypothesis is that the set of folks who have the money for paid training, vs. have the time for free at-your-own-pace online training, is actually disjoint. But I won’t be able to fully test that until I replicate my circa 2015 training circumstances

I.e. I have to be in the public eye a bit more having given multiple conference talks. Then I’ll be able to compare attendance from back then to attendance in an OST2-B (ost2.fyi/Thoughts-on-OS…) class.)

I think it will also be interesting to eventually start teaching hybrid OST2-B classes with other instructors. E.g. a class that starts with me on x86-64 assembly but ends with someone else on reverse engineering or exploits

If I can show the interest in OST2-B classes it will also enable other OST2 instructors who perhaps are not in the public eye as much (perhaps because they work at companies that won’t let them do public talks) to team up and put together multi-instructor classes on more topics