Request for Comments/Suggestions/Improvements (and an initial "hello all!")

[Itamar Heim]

On 04/12/2012 03:27 PM, Piotr Baranowski wrote:
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> Hello list!
>
> I've been pointed to that list by Karsten Wade himself as the best
> place to discuss my plan.
>
> I'm Piotr Baranowski, RHCA instructor/examiner working for Red Hat GLS
> in EMEA region. As I deliver RHCVA classess as well, I know oVirt/RHEV
> pretty well :-)
>
> What I wanted initially from Karsten was to get some info regarding
> the workshop in Beijing.
>
> I'm going to deliver a technical workshop at the infoshare conference
> this year (19-20.04.2012 - www.infoshare.pl)
>
> I'm looking for some suggestions/inspirations for my workshop and
> Karsten suggested that the list will be probably the best place to
> look for that info.
>
> My initial plan is to conduct a BYOL session with Fedora 16 LiveCD
> custom spin running on participants' laptops.
>
> My idea is to prepare a bootable livecds (livecd-tools) and maybe a
> PXE boot env to be launched on atendees laptops with ovirt-engine
> preloaded and ready to be configured.

sounds good - please do share the recipe later for others...
if people would boot this on physical machines, I'd consider using this 
as well:
http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/Feature/AllInOne

>
> LiveCD would contain ovirt-engine and the audience would follow me
> configuring their first datacenter, cluster, storage domains and maybe
> use a tiny bootable.iso to run an initial VM.
>
> How is that different from your approach in Beijing?

we did lectures and demo's, not a BYOL, and could not assume network 
access for participants.

>
> What do you think about my idea?

very nice!

>
> Feel free to comment. I'm really looking for your more or less
> constructive input.
>
> best regards
> - --
> Piotr Baranowski
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