kaphc Posted June 22, 2011 Posted June 22, 2011 Anyone who is an ICT Technician in a primary or secondary school in Derbyshire (or the surrounding locality) is welcome to attend Derbyshire ICT Technicians Meeting on Friday 1st July 12 noon at The Meadows Community School, Highstreet, Old Whittington, Chesterfield, S41 9LG Basically, a few of us thought it would be a good idea to network once a term, exchange information and experiences, and keep up-to-date with the latest developments. We need to establish how best to do this, what speakers people would be interested in, what structure we need to have etc. so that we can set up something that's useful to us all in our jobs. There'll be no formal agenda for the rest of the meeting, and will cover whatever topics are of interest to those attending. Last time, that included IT qualifications, Windows licensing including the new EES scheme, Hyper-V, and more ... If you are planning to be there, please reply to this thread or drop me a PM so we can work out numbers to seat (and also how many refreshments to provide!) Many thanks to eduGeeker PyROm's school for hosting this event. 1
kaphc Posted June 23, 2011 Author Posted June 23, 2011 I know of 5 of us so far then, that's 1 more than last time already! Have just e-mailed out to some secondary school IT mailing lists (thanks robk) and expect to get more responses from that too. 1
tom_newton Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 Anyone interested in having a visitor from Smoothwall at this tech's meeting? Seany would be happy to pop down and say hello if any of you are thinking about switching away from EMBC filtering (and of course there's the chance for us to bring good things and have a chat with our old mate robk!) 1
robk Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 I beleve the site of the meeting is a smoothwall customer.... Its not a meeting I am organising, but having having heard smoothwall present at others they are good for a laugh, and usually even have some good info and that doesnt have to be directly smoothwall related. @kaphc if you have space I would suggest taking up Tom's offer. 1
tom_newton Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 My apologies for not recognising one of the clan. We should have a secret handshake or some such. Let me know if there's room for a small one at the back 1
GrumbleDook Posted June 23, 2011 Posted June 23, 2011 Typical ... in Reading that day! Will see if anyone from Northants is free to pop up and say hello. 1
kaphc Posted June 23, 2011 Author Posted June 23, 2011 My apologies for not recognising one of the clan. We should have a secret handshake or some such. Let me know if there's room for a small one at the back No need to apologise, I don't work at the school we are meeting at - that's fellow eduGeek-er PyROm who has kindly organised the venue. By all means come along, it looks like we could get a bit more of an agenda going as I've had another offer of a talk from someone else who looks good as well. Will PM you to discuss further - thanks! 1
kaphc Posted June 23, 2011 Author Posted June 23, 2011 Typical ... in Reading that day! Will see if anyone from Northants is free to pop up and say hello. That's a shame ... next time! It would be good if someone from the Northants network can whizz up the M1 to us, we might be able to get a few more ideas. 1
Lorfarius Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Having never been to one of these before how long do they last for? 1
kaphc Posted June 27, 2011 Author Posted June 27, 2011 Having never been to one of these before how long do they last for? You're asking a bunch of ICT people how long something is going to take? Seriously, I think we'll be done by 1.30ish, though it's fairly open-ended. We have two visitors from companies coming in to talk, plus whatever topics anyone wants to discuss, plus a bit of planning for the 2011/2012 year to make sure we have some idea of what folks will find useful. 1
russdev Posted June 27, 2011 Posted June 27, 2011 Just to let people know @kaphc has kindly invited Impero along to event.. Russell
kaphc Posted June 27, 2011 Author Posted June 27, 2011 ... and Impero have very kindly accepted! And the other visitor is from Smoothwall as per the messages from @tom_newton above. So hopefully that should make for a good mixture of subjects and some interesting information. 1
Guest Cutler Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 Hi all, i have tried to send a private email but with no success, i have taken over all of the eductaion sector for Bt within the region, over the past few months since being in post i have in the main been talking to Business Managers but would welcome the opportunity to meet with you. i would like to attend your meeting on Friday not for a sales pitch but to understand the problems you go through but also as i have an understanding of Bt's solutions etc may be able to answer any questions etc. please let me know if you mind me attending?.
seanlaz Posted June 29, 2011 Posted June 29, 2011 Hello everyone, I'll be attending from Smoothwall and I've managed to snag our Head of Pre-Sale's Rob Faulkner (robef) for the meeting, so have your most technical questions at the ready! This was just a quick note as I was wondering what attendee's were looking to get out the Smoothwall slot during the meeting. Myself and Rob were looking to put something together for you tomorrow, so if there is a particular theme to follow, just let me know. If you can give me an idea of numbers I'll make sure mugs are brought for all. Cheers, Sean 1
kaphc Posted June 30, 2011 Author Posted June 30, 2011 Hi all, i have tried to send a private email but with no success, i have taken over all of the eductaion sector for Bt within the region, over the past few months since being in post i have in the main been talking to Business Managers but would welcome the opportunity to meet with you. i would like to attend your meeting on Friday not for a sales pitch but to understand the problems you go through but also as i have an understanding of Bt's solutions etc may be able to answer any questions etc. please let me know if you mind me attending?. As it's your first post on the forum, you may not have been able to send a private message until you've made a public post. I've sent you a PM just now, as this is something we may be interested in for the future, but not for tomorrow. Many thanks. 1
kaphc Posted June 30, 2011 Author Posted June 30, 2011 Hello everyone, I'll be attending from Smoothwall and I've managed to snag our Head of Pre-Sale's Rob Faulkner (robef) for the meeting, so have your most technical questions at the ready! This was just a quick note as I was wondering what attendee's were looking to get out the Smoothwall slot during the meeting. Myself and Rob were looking to put something together for you tomorrow, so if there is a particular theme to follow, just let me know. If you can give me an idea of numbers I'll make sure mugs are brought for all. Cheers, Sean Hi Sean I've dropped you an e-mail, if anyone else who is attending tomorrow has any thoughts, please feel free to reply to Sean on this thread. Many thanks and see you tomorrow. 2
Lorfarius Posted June 30, 2011 Posted June 30, 2011 (edited) This will be my first meeting and I suspect the same for others, so I think it's best if we keep it informal for the first one. We could easily extend these out into a more regular thing with talks from comapnies etc in future. For me I'm really interested in learning more about how other people work and what systems they use. We currently run RM CC3 and the biggest consideration for us at the moment is whether or not we should be looking towards vaniila or CC4. Edited June 30, 2011 by Lorfarius 2
kaphc Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Thanks to everyone who came today. Hope everyone enjoyed it and found it useful. We even managed to promote edugeek to a couple of new potential members! We'll definitely be doing another meetup / meeting again in October 2011. 1
kaphc Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Yeah, I think so. It's hard to tell whether it was useful for everyone as we've all got different backgrounds, but it seemed to go well. And we all came away clutching Smoothwall mugs and full of choccies and bics from Impero. So on a totally shallow level I'd say yes as well 1
russdev Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 Glad Dan & Karen brought chocs and didn't eat them on the way . Hope people found it useful.. Russ
kaphc Posted July 2, 2011 Author Posted July 2, 2011 Thanks @tom_newton and @russdev for setting up really good demos / talks - both were very interesting and I hope will have been of use for all. 1
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