On 06/14/2012 06:02 PM, Barak Azulay wrote: > On 06/14/2012 02:41 AM, Mike Burns wrote: >> Hi Leslie, >> >> On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:14 -0700, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I'd like to collect feedback from everyone on last week's oVirt workshop >>> at LinuxCon Japan. [0] Please reply back with comments by close of >>> business this Friday, 15 June. >>> >>> Once we have gathered feedback on list, I'll capture it on the oVirt >>> wiki. We can then use what we've learned to help construct the agenda >>> and other plans for other upcoming oVirt workshops at LinuxCons. [1] >>> >>> If you know that you would like to volunteer as an instructor for future >>> workshops or would like to suggest alternate content for the workshop, >>> please include that in your feedback. >>> >>> - Course Material >>> What sessions were most well received? Which ones require improvement? >>> Any additional sessions we'd suggest? >> >> All of the sessions seemed to be well received. I don't know that any >> need blatant improvement, though they could probably all take a bit of >> slide updates. The ovirt-node presentation was especially out of date >> (my fault) with it's screenshots. >> > > > I would like to add: > - a demo is a must in a workshop, as it is the most effective and > impressive way to attract people. > - I think the ovirt-engine presentation needs a bit more meat What stuff do you think we need to add to this presentation? Can you be more specific? Thanks, Yair

> - I would also add vertical presentations: > * ovirt network > * ovirt storage > * ovirt vm life cycle > Of course all the above should be presented after the arch& demo > presentation > > > > > >>> >>> - Audience Participation >>> How many attendees? How did the Q&A periods go? Would we like to prepare >>> a post-event attendee survey? (I recommend we do the survey and can >>> prepare some questions for the group if that's useful.) >> >> There were probably between 25-35 people through the course of the day >> for all the presentations. > > > I gave also an intro/arch talk also in the virt mini-summit, I actually > gave 2. > I volunteered to cover for one of the presenters that surprisingly > didn't show up on time, because of the confusion this session was rather > small (~40) > In the second one (in my scheduled slot), there were about ~80. > > > >> >> There wasn't really a lot of time set aside for Q&A aside from a few >> minutes at the end of each presentation and the breaks in between >> presentations. During those times, there generally were people asking >> questions. > > > Actually I wasn't expecting too many questions due to the different > culture of the audience, but we did get questions and people showed > interest. > Most of the interesting questions came during the breaks, and I had a > few white-board sessions with those people. > > > >> >> I think we should prepare the survey in advance of the next workshop and >> ask people to fill it out during the workshop, rather than coming back a >> couple weeks after the fact. We didn't really collect names of the >> people in attendance and I expect that a fair number of people >> registered attended the Gluster Conference. >> > > The linux foundation scanned all the participants tags, so I guess they > can supply the names. > > >>> >>> - Developer/user traction resulting from engaging at workshop >>> Did this workshop help us to gain new developers or users? Reinforce >>> relationships with existing community members? >> >> Only time will really tell here. People definitely seemed interested >> and there were a couple people already downloading and installing the >> bits during the workshop. I got the impression that most of the people >> there were more corporate focused -- Hitachi and Fujitsu were both well >> represented. They're from companies that have previously expressed >> interest in the project. >> > > > Hard to tell, > I had a feeling that there was also a none developers group that came > also to learn about ovirt, more of the consultant type that actually > considering ovirt as an option. > > >>> >>> - Promotion of the event, both before and after >>> What could be done to more effectively promote the event prior to the >>> workshops? Videos and slides from the workshop should be posted on the >>> LC Japan site tomorrow; what action would the community like to take to >>> promote this content? >> >> Not really my area of expertise -- promoting. Probably better to get >> information out there earlier that the workshop is happening. It seemed >> to be a bit of a fire drill getting things together for this workshop >> since it was only about a month before that we decided to run it. >> Future workshops shouldn't be as big a deal. >> > > > I would say we need a lot of promotion, I was actually accessed by a few > people after the into presentation, saying they had no idea that ovirt > is so mature and feature reach. > This message should be conveyed before the workshop. > > > >> Probably an email announcement to users@ with a link to the >> presentations/videos is the right next step. >>> >>> - A/V and Room Set up >>> Did the seating arrangements work well for the workshop format? Did the >>> A/V work well, including the videotaping process? >> >> Our room was setup with 5 round tables seating 10 people each. I'm not >> sure that it was really the right layout. I expected either rows of >> chairs or long tables with chairs all facing the presentation screen. >> >> A/V worked seamlessly. It was all setup already when we arrived. >> > > > I would agree with Mike on the room setup. > I would prefer facing the presentation rather than having to look aside. > > In addition and related to the preparations for the workshop, > Since it was setup so late, the linux foundation thought that setting > the workshop means canceling the mini-summit presentation slot. > So all the handouts& schedule boards hanged around the summit did no > include this talk, anyway eventually they hanged a hand written schedule > update, but I assume more people would have come if they knew. > > The web schedule was updated. > > >>> >>> - Food and beverage >>> Did the catered in lunch help to keep the flow of the workshop >>> productive? Was the food of good quality and in keeping with the needs >>> of attendee dietary constraints? >> >> I had no issues with the food. People seemed to take the opportunity >> more to step out and take a break, rather than sit and continue >> discussing. >> > > I agree > >>> >>> - Give aways >>> We did not produce attendee gifts for the oVirt workshop. Thoughts on >>> whether this would be a welcome addition in the future? Suggestions for >>> type of gift also welcome. >> >> It would have been nice to have some sort of SWAG to give away, whether >> just fancy handouts or stickers. It would be even better if we could >> have some sort of appliance with ovirt pre-installed and configured on a >> usb stick as well, but that's probably a year or 2 down the road. >> >>> >>> - Any other feedback >> >> It's probably better if there are people from a wider range of the >> sub-projects than we had in Japan. I think that between Barak and I, we >> managed to cover the majority of the project, but I think it would be >> better to have someone from each major subproject there. >> >> I expect that either myself or someone from the Node team will be >> attending at least LinuxCon NA, LinuxCon Europe and the NetApp >> workshops. We'll certainly handle the Node presentation for each of >> these workshops. >> > > > It looks like ovirt& gluster workshops will happen side by side in the > near future. > I don't know if this is possible but I would do the workshops in > different days (of the summit) so people that want to participate in > both workshops can do it. > I know for sure that in Japan many registered for both workshops > > > > Barak > >> Mike >> >>> >>> If it is preferable to discuss this feedback real-time, I will ask Mike >>> Burns to give us more time for this topic during next week's oVirt IRC >>> meeting. >>> >>> [0] - >>> https://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-japan/ovirt-gluster-wo... >>> >>> [1] - http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_Global_Workshops >>> >>> Cheers, >>> LH >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Arch mailing list >> Arch(a)ovirt.org >> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Arch mailing list > Arch(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/arch