[suws-members] Reminder: Doodle Poll for SOWN workshop

[David R Newman]

Hi All,

Just a quick reminder, if you have not already done so (and are 
interested in attending), to fill in the Doodle poll to choose a date 
for the first SOWN workshop of the academic year.  We will be deciding 
on a date at tonight's meeting.

http://doodle.com/poll/7x3mmbqn2ditr2s4

Regards

David Newman


On 15/10/2015 00:58, David R Newman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> As mentioned in the introductory meetings, we are planning on having a 
> SOWN workshop towards the end of this month or early November. This 
> will take place on either a Saturday or Sunday from around 11am until 
> mid to late afternoon.  I have created a Doodle poll so people can 
> list which days suit them best.  I will endeavour to schedule the 
> workshop for the most popular day but we need a minimum of SOWN 
> 'veterans' to help run the workshop.
>
> http://doodle.com/poll/7x3mmbqn2ditr2s4
>
> A typical SOWN workshop consists of collectively working on various 
> aspects of SOWN.  What we work on tends to focus on whatever issues 
> are pressing at the time.  At the moment one of those things is 
> reflashing and reinstalling some of the SOWN[at]Home nodes so we have 
> enough available for deployments. We are also working towards 
> rebuilding some of our physical servers on our new Virtual Machine 
> (VM) server.  Both of these tasks I think will be good for a first 
> workshop of a year, as they will help new people to get an overview of 
> what SOWN does and how it works in a reasonably hands-on way.
>
> No prior knowledge is required as we will explain things as we go 
> along.  If you are new person coming to the workshop, please feel free 
> to tell me or others if we are explaining things too quickly. It is 
> sometimes difficult to appreciate how much you may have learnt over 
> time and how much time it took to understand it yourself.
>
> Anyway, once I have a decent number of responses to the Doodle poll, I 
> will send round another email confirming the date and location of the 
> workshop.  It is likely to be either the Zepler CLS room we also use 
> for Thursday meetings or the Zepler level 3 computing labs.
>
> Regards
>
> David Newman
>
>