EMBC IT Conference

[GrumbleDook]

Evenin' all

Just to give you all advance notice that on March 10th EMBC and Synetrix will be holding a Conference for Network Managers, IT Co-ordinators, companies providing support for schools and other stake holders. This will be full day conference in Loughborough.

Full details and booking forms will appear on the EMBC portal soon, but I just wanted to make sure you book the date in your dairy. There will be presentations and some workshops (full details to follow) but there should be something for everyone (primary and secondary / large schools and small schools).

For Northants members, this will replace the IT Managers' Meeting for March.

[SpuffMonkey]

Full details and booking forms will appear on the EMBC portal soon, but I just wanted to make sure you book the date in your dairy.

A date in a dairy - sounds cheesy!

[GrumbleDook]

embc Regional Technical Workshop - 10th March 2008, 9.30 Imago, Loughborough University

This partnership event provided by embc and Synetrix is for all Network Managers and Technical Support Providers, ICT co-ordinators or anyone in an embc school responsible for ICT infrastructure and support. It will provide you with an opportunity to learn more about current embc services and future strategy, indeed contributing to the improvements of current services and development of future strategy – it is the network for all schools in the EM and you are essential to its continued success and future development.

Learn about Shibboleth, single sign on, Active Directory and join in Workshops on a range of technical topics concerned with managing school networks. If you are a Network Manager or a third party company managing a schools network at an embc school whether primary or secondary, then this is the event specifically for you. Free to attend with a hot lunch. The day will start with presentations from Becta, LA colleagues, Synetrix and embc followed by an afternoon of workshops run by embc and Synetrix.

Workshop topics will cover:
Open network and delivery of third party services, Intrusion Detection, Filtering, WAT, Passwords for primary pupils,MIS integration and SIF, Layer 3 switching, Optimizing Network Configuration, VC, Deployment Tools.

Full details to follow shortly.

I'll let people know when booking is open.

[wagnerk]

Hopefully, I'll get to go. Already marked my calendar and e-mailed my manager

-Ken

[russdev]

Booking is now up..

EMBC Portal

Russ

[kmount]

It'd be better if they bothered spending time on creating a questionnaire that doesn't allow you to select more than one answer on questions that only require one answer.

A quick check would have stopped that happening, oh and the the blatant typo in one of the earlier questions.

Sloppy.

[FreeWill]

Looks like this would be quite useful.

Someone forgot the year though!

[sparkeh]

Bah clashes with the LEAMIS SIMS event that I am attending.
Shame, would have useful, and nice to meet people.

edit: scratch that, I just can't read a calendar.

[sparkeh]

So I guess there will be a few Edugeekers there.

We should get together at lunch to chew the fat (metaphorically, I am not commenting on the standard of the lunch)

[russdev]

I will make sure I where my edugeek lanyard then (can't get away with the shirt due to going on behalf of the school).

So easiest way is find me and say hello.

Russ

[kmount]

Not that we don't know what you look like

[russdev]

You see there is a reason my pic is my avater it is for this very reason.

So edugeekers can come and say hello to me when I am to various events etc

[kmount]

Yes, because saying hello is top of our list

[russdev]

Ok maybe hitting me and then say hello better to talk to me than those LA bods...

On serious note made mission while back any time I go anywhere to events etc to talk to at least one edugeek member. Sometimes I manage that sometimes I don't..

Russ

[sparkeh]

Russ has a good point.

If you use a silly avatar like mine then you could give Russ a lift to the RM conference, spend most of the day talking to him then get a PM then next day on here asking why I hadn't said hello to him