Re: [Users] Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop
On 06/17/2012 10:00 AM, Yair Zaslavsky wrote: 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 The ovirt-node presentation was especially out of date (my fault) with it's screenshots.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 - better diagrams - code structure - go over a simple example-command work flow - from entry till DB ... and many more - 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 QA 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 QA 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
Re: [Users] Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop
On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:59 -0700, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for your detailed feedback. On 06/13/2012 04:41 PM, Mike Burns wrote: - Audience Participation How many attendees? How did the QA 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.) 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. I have an attendee list from the Linux Foundation for each workshop, so if we'd like to get the survey out this week it can happen. I believe I can also find a resource to translate the survey into Japanese, though that would mean a delay in sending it out. Some suggested questions, I'd pare down to no more than 5. - What was your favorite talk? - What could we do to improve? - Were the talks too long? Too short? - Was the presentation material clear to you? - Are you currently using or interested in using oVirt? - Are you interested in contributing to the oVirt community? Cheers, LH If you think it's worth it, then go for it. Feedback is always good. Mike ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop
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 - 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 QA 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 QA 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
Re: [Users] Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop
On 06/14/2012 04:18 AM, Mike Burns wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 23:59 -0700, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: Hi Mike, Thanks for your detailed feedback. On 06/13/2012 04:41 PM, Mike Burns wrote: - Audience Participation How many attendees? How did the QA 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.) 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. I have an attendee list from the Linux Foundation for each workshop, so if we'd like to get the survey out this week it can happen. I believe I can also find a resource to translate the survey into Japanese, though that would mean a delay in sending it out. Some suggested questions, I'd pare down to no more than 5. - What was your favorite talk? - What could we do to improve? - Were the talks too long? Too short? - Was the presentation material clear to you? - Are you currently using or interested in using oVirt? - Are you interested in contributing to the oVirt community? Cheers, LH If you think it's worth it, then go for it. Feedback is always good. I definitely think it's worth it and the Linux Foundation has graciously agreed to include our questions in their post-event attendee survey. Here are the questions we've asked, along with a request to the LF to help us word the text in such a way that it is clear to attendees who do not speak English as their first language: oVirt: Did you attend the oVirt workshop? If yes: 1) What talk(s) were most useful to you? 2) What can we do to improve the workshop? 3) Was the presentation material clear to you? 4) Are you or your organization currently using or interested in using oVirt? 5) Would you like to contribute to the oVirt community? I will collate the feedback from the survey and share it with everyone once it is collected. Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat identi.ca/lh twitter.com/lhawthorn ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
[Users] Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop
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 QA 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 -- Leslie Hawthorn Community Action and Impact Open Source and Standards @ Red Hat identi.ca/lh twitter.com/lhawthorn ___ Users mailing list Users@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
Re: [Users] Following Up on LinuxCon Japan Workshop
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. - Audience Participation How many attendees? How did the QA 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. There wasn't really a lot of time set aside for QA 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. - 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. - 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. 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. - 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. - 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. Mike If it is
