[Foss4g2009] Workshop Logistics

[Bruce Bannerman]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 06:34 -0700, Paul Ramsey wrote:
> I'm not sure if 2008 did any workshops in computerless rooms, but if
> they did I'd like to hear how that went. The "low impact" workshop is
> a category we haven't had before, but it allows the organizers to add
> a workshop without the overhead of handling machinery.
> 
> Another option for workshops which it might be time to explore is the
> BYOLaptop + Virtual Machine approach. With VM players like VMWare
> free-to-download, this is potentially a doable thing. Just have to
> make VM images small enough to burn on a DVD.  Only downside is, we
> generally want to teach on Windows, to keep it "real" for the majority
> of attendees, but we can't burn 300 copies of Windows VMs onto DVDs.


If we have to go down this route, I'd prefer to see Live DVDs with a
Linux distro e.g. Ubuntu.


Bruce
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