SCaLE debrief

LOPSA training classes at SCaLE were a great success!

The Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE) in Los Angeles, California was in February, so this commentary is quite tardy.

The opening of the week was quite hectic for me as my wife and I had just been out to Endicott, NY the week before, and I hardly had enough time to prepare.

Once I was at the conference hotel, I met up with some folks I knew, including fellow LOPSA instructor Chris St. Pierre. The evening involved hectic last minute planning. That really meant I wasn't sure what was going on, but everyone else knew things were well in hand with nothing to worry about.

The whole event was run quite professionally by Ilan and crew, and everything we needed was handled quickly and efficiently. I just had to show up and do my classes, as it turns out!

Reference the SCaLE-U schedule at: http://scale7x.socallinuxexpo.org/conference-info/scale-u

My first class, Introduction to Virtualized Storage Management was mostly a new course for me to teach. I took the better part of a previous storage related class I presented at another conference and expanded on it to make a full class about how virtualized storage works.

The second class was a reprise of my Disaster Recovery course. This was originally two separate presentations given at the now defunct local group MAD-SAGE back in October 2001 and May 2002.

Once again, the students really made the class interesting (and entertaining!). The students came from a wide range of experience and organizations, which is usually the case with these courses. The classes went really well, and the students supplied me with great feedback. You know who you are, and I thank you for making my next class better for those students.

If you took either of these classes and are waiting on a copy of the presentation, please remind me via email, and I will now send it to you.

I hope I am fortunate to have the opportunity to do classes or at least attend SCaLE again.