[NTLUG:Discuss] NTLUG workshops

[Ralph Green]

Howdy,
  One of our members(CoryC) made a suggestion at the last meeting that
we have some workshops.  The idea is to have more of a hands on
participation than our regular meetings.  The workshops would be longer
than the regular meeting.  There are a number of options on how we would
do these and I am soliciting your feedback as to whether there is
interest and how we should do these.

 One option would be to hold these at the same location as out current
meetings, but do them in another room.  We could use the install room
starting at 11 AM, or ask NTPCUG if another room were available to start
earlier.  We can keep the rooms longer than we do now.  We need to be
out the door by 2 PM, per the contract we have with the church.

  Another option would be to replace some of our regular meetings with
these workshops.  We might, for example, have a quarterly or semi-annual
workshop instead of a regular meeting.

 Another option is to find some other location and time to hold these
workshops.  If you like this option, then please suggest where and when.

 Tell us what you think and how you think we might do something like
this.  We have other workshop idea, but really the workshops we might
hold would depend on who is willing to do the work to organize them.
Step forward if you want to do one and once we decide on our schedule,
we will see where to schedule your workshop.

 To get us started, CoryC would like to organize a workshop on setting
up VMWare esxi.  He would bring a couple of computers that could do the
install.  People would be encouraged to bring their own computers along
with the prerequisites.  For esxi, you would need the install CD, the
server machine with a clean hard drive, since the esxi install wipes out
everything and a Windows computer to install the management client on.
More detailed instruction will follow before the workshop, but I just
wanted to give you an idea of what is needed.  CoryC has not committed
to hold this workshop yet, so let him know if you like the idea.

Have a good day,
Ralph