What does 2012 have in store for you?

[Earthling]

2012?

 

More of the same, I guess........as I said in another thread.......no money, no plans, no strategy, no direction, so....no change there, then.

 

Only plan is to replace a room full of ageing Mac Minis with new Dells.

 

Otherwise, we'll keep running on our own inertia.

 

On a more positive note, I can start saying that I'm retiring next year.

 

[GrumbleDook]

Professionally

 

Helping schools choose connectivity and services prior to the end of the existing contract and the start of the new EMBC framework ... mainly because in the future the LA will have nothing to do with it at all ... no service management, no support of Change Requests, no stopping people asking for flipping' stupid things with firewall rules ... but also no grief too.

Also doing a bit more work on Sharepoint as I plan to be doing some interesting things on that side too.

Running some more FITS courses for local schools (I'm now a trainer, along with @Stevegough, @wagnerk and a colleague back at the office) as well as collating some of the old materials and writing some more stuff to help schools manage change / plan.

 

Personally

 

Waiting to be matched with a child for adoption (and many, many thanks to the wonderful PMs I have had from folk ... I promise I will catch up with you in the near future).

Continue losing weight and start back on the exercise ... hopefully even go back under the knife to have my knee tidied up again. Until that is done I can't really set a target for my fitness.

Oh ... I can't quite work out whether taking over the world is a personal or professional goal ...

[john]

Lets see 2012, its a busy one!

 

From Feb half term my place is a building site, large amount of refurbishment is going on as we prepare to welcome Year 7 and 8 students to my school for the first time in about 35 years! In the summer we will gain a second site which is already connected to our site but all the IT will have to be re-setup onto our system.

 

Other things going with the above - complete the campus Ruckus installation on both sites, expand the telephony onto both sites, lots of new staff and users going on etc... Lots of new refurbished rooms to fit out with shiny new PCs, Casio Projectors, SmartBoards etc.... So a busy one this year with all that lot

 

We are also migrating from Serco Facility to Serco Progresso in time for the new academic year, fitting cashless catering, a computer library system and probably many other random things going on so not a quiet one really for us. Already know little time will be had off in the summer to keep on top of all this work.

 

Personally, find a bit more time for myself would be good, I need to loose my "love handles" as they were called the other day the realisation that my jeans really don't fit me anymore isn't good as I like my size so need to do something about that as I am clearly rather unfit now. Continue to do my writing work on Educational ICT and start to look at my future as I don't see my role expanding or any form of promotion in my existing school which is a shame as there would be scope but I don't expect them to offer it to me so time to look to move on once all the above has been completed

[garethEds]

Evening,

 

In Work - whatever comes our way. Virtualising the servers, pushing for more funding. Introduce more programming into the curriculum through Years 7 to 9. IMprove exam results at GCSE and ALevel and push for a new ICT Teacher to help me - a specialist would be nice.

 

At Home - Start the adoption process again and hopefully bring home another (twins would be nice this time). Spend more time with my family (work/life balance).

 

Gareth

[CAM]

Probably more of the same. Life is getting stale right now and coasting along, not really seeing anything great happen. :|

[irsprint84]

@ric @Soulfish and I are all down this way @irsprint84

 

Just shout if you need a beer break

 

I m now in Ealing, give me a PM and we ll meet up

[rich_tech]

Work - projects depend on funding and budgets I suppose, been looking at some nice stuff over the last few months though, as @garethedmondson said Virtualisation is a big one we are looking at and wireless for byod too, we have also been examining our networking infrastructure, Citrix was very impressive stuff when we looked at it and our windows 7 rollout went fairly painlessly (issues with sibelius were a headache logistically because of the bonkers file sizes) and staff took minimal time to get to grips with it. All in all makes for a good year ahead workwise with some exciting stuff to look at.

 

Home - Looking forward to becoming a dad (Wife is 10 weeks along now and all going well) though I will have to overcome my hatred of DIY to sort out a nursery here, life is great at the moment.

[jamesb]

Work - getting used to working in London (for a non-tech company) and the commute, as well as desperately bootstrapping my SharePoint skills.

 

Home - not much, moving out to my own place sometime over the next few months and that's about as exciting as it gets this year.

[witch]

Now it's time to get hitched, I suppose.

 

Not the most romantic way of saying it - don't say that to your partner, will you? Or 2012 may not be a good year!

[irsprint84]

wow first week working at a uni has been great! done 10 and 11 hour shift even though I do 8 hours because so much fun. Also live so close so when I have to be in for 9 get up at 8:20am plus doing a 10 - 6 shift today and got up at 9:20

 

Though some people dont like it, I love there is process and policies plus because I manage systems I dont have to touch other things like networks, desktops, website etc.. plus we have a dedicated helpdesk so we dont have to deal with the general public.

 

Weird thing is dealing with 2 massive datacentres, 100s of servers plus when you walk in any of them a video camera starts recording and everything is swipe cards. Also nice ot have a good team under me though I m in process of merging six forests into two