Post-Mortem Notes (was: Re: Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop)

[Leslie Hawthorn]

Hello everyone,

Thank you for your detailed feedback. I have captured it on the oVirt 
wiki [0] for later reference. I have also shared these notes with the 
Linux Foundation Events Team.

I believe we have sufficiently detailed feedback to help us plan the 
next workshop. I'll address this item during this week's oVirt IRC meeting.

[0] - http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/LC_Japan_Workshop_Post-Mortem

Cheers,
LH

On 06/13/2012 03:14 PM, 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?
>
> - 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.)
>
> - 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?
>
> - 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?
>
> - 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?
>
> - 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?
>
> - 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.
>
> - Any other feedback
>
> 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-workshops
> [1] - http://www.ovirt.org/wiki/OVirt_Global_Workshops
>
> Cheers,
> LH
>


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