Steve (and all you lurkers out there...) No specific technical knowledge is required. Serving as a session chair is a great way to become more involved at SHARE. If you're planning to attend, and plan to be present in a session anyway, please consider volunteering!
The toughest requirement is that you be willing to stand up at the front of the room to introduce the session and speaker, ask any members of The Media to identify themselves, and to beg, plead, wheedle or otherwise harangue those attending the session to submit a session evaluation. Beyond that... the job amounts to taking care of the speaker. Plan to show up at any session you volunteer for a few minutes early in order to meet the speaker, ask whether they'll take questions "in flight" during the session or prefer to have Q&A at the end of the presentation, and remind folks to please silence their phones and mute their laptops. During the session, be willing to count how many people are in the room, and to turn that count over to Program / Project management volunteers after the session. That's about as complicated as it gets. In extreme cases, one of the "ribbon wearer" Program / Project management types will likely be in the session or near to hand if unlikely complications (like an A/V equipment failure or a tardy speaker) develop. For Linux / VM (LVM) session chairs, there's an organizational meeting on Sunday at 5:00 p.m. in the Virginia room of the venue. If travel and hotel check-in keep you from that meeting, and you haven't served as a session chair before, don't let that keep you from volunteering. Instead, consider signing up for sessions that are scheduled late Monday or later in the week. Arrangements can be made to go through the orientation process and put you to work! (OK... Mark Post beat me to it. Don't be scared away by "As the session chair you have the power to ask them to stop, and to ask them to leave if they won't." (a) This hasn't happened in a very long time, (b) We Have Ways To Deal With This Sort of Thing, and (c) Nobody talks about what happened to the last guy...) The world is run by the people who show up. Please, show up and get involved! -dan. On 2/10/2015 3:35 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
I know one or two Linux commands, after all, I run Linux desktops at home and have been since 2002. I kinda remember CMS commands and CP commands, seeing how I am transitioning back to VM after being gone since about 1991. So what would you need me to know and do, and what is the earliest meeting that would be required (I'm getting in on Sunday about 3PM). Regards, Steve Thompson 972-983-9430 cell 502-476-0117 Humana, Inc. Tech Architect Performance & Capacity Management/Large Systems Architecture- z/OS, z/VM, zLinux Technology Solution Services The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
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