Planning MangoCon
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On a serious note, I've found that conferences that have an "unconference" section or session are really valuable. Those are ones where the participants select topics on the spot and break out into small discussion groups.
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I like that. And I really enjoyed the open Q&A that I did, I feel like that is great for organically taking topics of interest right there and then and running with it.
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@Nic said:
On a serious note, I've found that conferences that have an "unconference" section or session are really valuable. Those are ones where the participants select topics on the spot and break out into small discussion groups.
That is a good idea.
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Might be great for a keynote to do Q & A for a few of your more technical people (no not me).
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I think some career sessions would be good. Sessions on helping people get to the next level, understanding what the field has to offer, etc.
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Powershell by it's self as a topic, has so many possible target points, that I'd think it would be very difficult to have a discussion on what it can do, without having some pre-designed scripts to show off.
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AD Permission Auditing
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Bulk User Creation
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Security enhancements (things that can be improved on by using power shell)
Sorry for such the short list.
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I think that big "shared talks" like keynotes and stuff should be minimized. They are great for getting people together at kick off each day, but if they take any amount of time they become a huge waste.
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Virtualization and how-to get-going with changing over from a all Physical, or hybrid environment to a complete cut-over.
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Virtualization platform backup and recovery / redundancy solutions
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Unitrends?
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VoIP inception to completion
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I think a small Linux lab would be cool. Well a lab of any type, bit that would be the easiest and most cost effective.
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@johnhooks said:
I think a small Linux lab would be cool. Well a lab of any type, bit that would be the easiest and most cost effective.
A lab to do what? What would a live lab be like at a conference?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
I think a small Linux lab would be cool. Well a lab of any type, bit that would be the easiest and most cost effective.
A lab to do what? What would a live lab be like at a conference?
Well a couple machines to do tutorials on. If people have questions on how to do something they could get some help.
Just for example, setting up a jump box (trivial but just an example) or more advanced like two systems using heartbeat for HA. Just something to play around on with some instructions and the ability to get help.
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Would people really be looking for arbitrary labs like that at a conference? Maybe they would, this isn't something that I would be looking to do in this setting.
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@scottalanmiller said:
Would people really be looking for arbitrary labs like that at a conference? Maybe they would, this isn't something that I would be looking to do in this setting.
I know this is different but the idea came from this
Part of the place and time for that is getting to use their stuff in labs. Just Seeing it at a table but not having hands on doesn't help a ton.
I was just thinking of an area for when people have down time or when there are sessions going on that they didn't want to be a part of.
Just throwing ideas out there. I have an old HP laptop I could donate if you guys decide to do something like that.
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A couple of the Vendors have offered to setup labs. However the idea of the labs is for the training that will be going on for the sessions. Not sure we would want to do anything beyond supporting training that is going on.
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Hands on for a product introduction would make sense to me. But a skills lab where random training labs are set up for people to practice skills seems odd.
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VM performance monitoring, reading the results, and fixing the problems.
