Hardcore GWT Hands on Training?

It's the new year, and I've been mulling an idea recently that I'd like to get some feedback on from the community.

The GWT Conference was a blast, and it appears my Deferred Binding presentation was well received. Since then, a number of people have encouraged me to offer some sort of training or mentoring for GWT, either in classrooms, or in the form of corporate on-site training. I hesitate to get too distracted from working on Chronoscope and Timepedia, but after thinking about it some more, I do think it might be worth pursuing, perhaps one 2-day course per month.

What I don't want to do is some token GWT course that glosses over the core of GWT and shows one how to create some cute widgets and stuff them into a web page, without understanding what's going on under the hood. Rather, I'd like to teach, on Day 1, GWT from the ground up exploring in detail what is happening: Java vs JS Output, Deferred Binding, JSNI, Widget attachment, Widget event processing, RPC/Serialization vs On-the-wire representation, the Bootstrap/Selection process, Hosted Mode, debugging, testing, etc.

On Day 2, I'd then delve into more idiomatic patterns: Creating custom widgets, creating your own modules/libraries, Localization, image bundles, integrating with back-end frameworks, RPC and RPC customization, optimizing size and speed, etc

I'd require people to write code in short labs during the class, give personal help in troubleshooting, setting up Eclipse/IDEA/Netbeans environments, and ask that others who have completed labs successfully help participate in helping those having trouble, because I believe a good way to learn something is by in-class participation and trying to help someone else. Who knows, it might be a fun, campfire type atmosphere!

I'd risk losing a lot of newbies doing this, and also risk not getting any advanced users who are self-taught, but hopefully, there are a lot of people in the middle with some GWT experience, who would like a more in depth tutorial hands on. Perhaps I'd do a more marketing oriented/newbie introductory course later.

Ultimately, I'd hope that people who come away from the classes with not only enough knowledge to write code to cover their own use cases, but also have enough knowledge to fix bugs and contribute to GWT itself. The GWT compiler and core libraries should no longer be 'magic' to those taking the course.

Obviously, the course wouldn't be free, especially in offsite training where I'd have to rent the event space and also given the opportunity cost for me, but I would offer discounts if space is donated, charge less for the first 'beta' class, and given some steep student discounts, especially if students would arrive early and help me with class setup.

I'm working out the course material at the moment, and pricing out some meeting spaces. I haven't decided on a per-student price yet, but feel free to email me suggestions, course ideas, and most importantly, whether or not you'd be interested in attending, or your company would. Private replies can be sent to cromwellian / gmail.com

Oh, this would be for the SF Bay Area, hopefully BART/Caltrain accessible.

-Ray