My timing in joining Intellient is impeccable. The first week that I am with them just happens to be the same week that Todd Bleeker and Bill English from MindSharp are hosting their SharePoint Summit in Atlanta. So Intellinet ponied up a big chunk of change to get me some training during my first week on the job. Of course, I'll immediately be able to put some of this knowledge to work when I go to my first billable task next week.
So the Summit seems very well done so far. We have covered a quick intro to Windows SharePoint Services 2007 and now we've started working on some real SharePoint dev topics. We've looked at a lot of UI customization and some minor functionality tweaking. We're getting into the heavier lifting in the coming modules.
The Summit is actually split into two 5 day courses, an Admin course (taught by Bill English) and a Dev course (taught by Todd Bleeker). Several other MindSharp employees wander around and assist the main presenter when memory lapses might otherwise cause us to miss some tidbit of information. So much information is flying around these rooms that I'm not worried that I'll not learn enough, I'm worried that I'll forget too much!