Hi Leslie, On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 15:14 -0700, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: 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 The ovirt-node presentation was especially out of date (my fault) with it's screenshots. There were probably between 25-35 people through the course of the day for all the presentations. 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. 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. 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. 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. Probably an email announcement to users@ with a link to the presentations/videos is the right next step. 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 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. 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. 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. Mike

On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:59 -0700, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: If you think it's worth it, then go for it. Feedback is always good. Mike

On 06/14/2012 02:41 AM, Mike Burns wrote: 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 - 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 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. 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. The linux foundation scanned all the participants tags, so I guess they can supply the names. 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. 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. 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. I agree 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

On 06/19/2012 01:16 AM, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: Thanks for setting it up. BTW the videos from the VDSM sessions were not uploaded (the VDSM session mentioned is another ovirt arch session that I gave in the mini summit). Do you away to check with the Linux Foundation ? Thanks Barak Azulay

On 06/21/2012 09:22 AM, Barak Azulay wrote: I checked in with the Linux Foundation and it turns out that the audio from this VDSM session was very poor so the video was not usable. I have asked the LF to take down the incorrect video. Would you like to see the mini-summit session linked from the oVirt workshop page? I don't know if it's possible, but it cannot hurt to ask if this is a desired outcome. Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat identi.ca/lh twitter.com/lhawthorn