Not to echo the exact same thing as the post above me...

+1 on the wi-fi.
+1 on breaks between session being a bit long.
+1 on lunch being delicious.

I would also note that the First Ave party was far better than the party last year.

I would like to echo what Steve Wood said about calling out early for presenters, as well as the need for a JAMF Nation type poll to see what exactly The Nation is looking for. This is after all, a celebration of the Jamf Nation users. I found myself presenting on a topic close to me, and while the presentation appears to have gone very well, it would be nice to be able to focus in on a topic I knew several hundreds of people would be looking for information on.

Lastly, I would like to talk about the EDU vs Enterprise users. While I tried to keep my session very neutral, it is very apparent that some sessions are extremely one sided in that regard (due mostly to the topic being presented). If at all possible, I would make sure that both groups are represented in any one time block, and possibly mark the session with some kind of icon to let JNUC2015 users know what type of session they will be seeing (edu vs enterprise).

Just a few +1's and a few ideas :)

Alright... so

+1, need for better wifi (May I recommend Xirrus Rapid Deployment Kits, they're great for events where you can't influence infrastructure)
+1 for shortening the period between sessions

As for every JAMF event; the food, snack and caffeine (+beer) allotment was spectacular. It's so easy to become distracted and far less social when you're hungry.

Beyond that I thought that the web based signup tool was a good transition (having never attended a JNUC before), yet many folks changed tracks as the conference went on and didn't change what they signed up for. This caused a few of the conferences to be a little out of kilter with the venue though, not horribly. Also, if there was a way to associate slides, notes and media into such a tool that would be spectacular for a quick recap after the trip. Right now some are posting up their materials in a number of threads named "slides" or other generic term making them difficult to find as they are posted. Not that it's that hard. It just could be easier.

... and onto EDU vs Enterprise. I like @lucid772 idea regarding a far more obvious signifier and focus. Yet I find myself (Brewster Academy's Technology Coordinator) following mostly enterprise tracks regardless. Many edu's are very new to large scale IT infrastructure and simply don't have the same kinds of issues (legacy IT and compliance issues) to bring up yet. That will eventually change as the educational IT market continues to mature. I'm not sure exactly what I'm pointing out here. Perhaps edu focused tracks might focus less on compliance, reporting and mixed environments? I would love to hear thoughts on this!

Regardless, I'm sure I'll be back in 2015. What a great conference!

First off, I've been part of the JNUC since 2011 and I'm never disappointed. Great sessions/food/people/atmosphere/bacon/etc.... Even if I go to a session that has no bearing on what we're trying to accomplish, I pull a morsel of something I either didn't know or hadn't thought of to implement.

+1 WiFi
+1 breaks between sessions to 30 minutes
+1 lunch break was great, food as well
+1 Nation-tailored sessions, what issues are folks seeing and/or would like to see demo'd

ASKS
--Maybe a series of sessions (B/I/A)? I know it may eat into some of the additional services revenue, but it would be beneficial to see the workflows of some of the daily JSS tasks. Best practices on some of those menial tasks might be a lifesaver to someone.... (Scoping/Policy creation/Pre-stage imaging/etc.)

--Have we outgrown the Guthrie?

Thanks much and see you in 2015!

One addition to my previous would be for better projection capabilities if possible. I know we're not going to be able to provide excellent viewing from the balcony or the back of the room, but even fairly close up the screens were pretty blurry. Not sure what can be done about that, but it would be nice if a solution could be found.

That one may be a bit more on the presenter's shoulders, @stevewood. When we get those slide templates it gives a certain dimension, and I think the inclination is to use up as much of that space as possible. It may be a good idea for presenters to blow up text/terminal/etc. to make things easier to read.

I don't think it was just on screenshots @emilykausalik it seemed to me that even some of the other text was a bit blurry. Of course that could just be my age and I need to go get my eyes checked. ;-)

Thanks for a wonderful JNUC. I had a blast!

I would be interested in longer sessions (maybe we call them classes - 2 hours long) that would be more "real-time" rather than walking through a keynote slide of a particular enterprise setup. It's great to see a an example of a successful solution in action, but I think it would be very beneficial to get down to the "nuts & bolts" and build/see a solution from beginning to end (with some editing of course).

Perhaps having a small ad hoc network with a local JSS and a few test machines (VM's) to use for demonstration.

I really liked some of the automation sessions and would have liked to see more of it in depth (real time as opposed to screenshots).

1. Wi-Fi
2. Charging stations
3. Swag. :)

I agree with @donmontalvo and many others but here's is my 'list':

1. Better Wi-Fi
2. Designated areas w/ charging stations
3. JAMF branded swag and other gizmos for puchase (I love tinkering around w/ my Geohopper iBeacon;)
4. Maybe some short, technical, hands-on sessions during breaks to go over certain JSS maintenance type tasks, tips & tricks or other interesting Casper stuff.

JAMF sponsored New Feature sessions might be nice. I would like to see some of the new features in action and how examples of how I might want to use them.

+1 for more advanced "advanced" sessions.
+1 for more sessions overall, with shorter breaks between
+0.01 better wifi (no need to beat a dead horse. Everyone knows the wifi was insufficient. ;)

Lunch was better this year, but it was still very crowded the first day. Running it in shifts with an "early lunch" and "late lunch" while sessions are in progress would naturally thin out the dedicated lunch period, since not everyone would have a session they are interested in attending during the "early" and "late" periods.

Better publication of mini-events would be nice. If you went to the dedicated JNUC page from jamfsoftware.com they weren't even mentioned, and it wasn't pointed out explicitly during the keynote. You had to know that there was the extra hidden section here on JAMF Nation to discover them. The one mini event I attended had all of four people show up. Even the organizers of the event itself didn't bother attending.

What happened to listing all the events in the Eventbrite app? Sure I could look them up in the paper pamphlet, but that doesn't include event descriptions, and too many of the titles were cute and kitschy but devoid of actual information, or even downright misleading.

Having a dedicated location for presenters to upload their presentation and any related resources before the presentation begins, with a link in the event's description would be nice. Why should we all squint at a tiny, blurry screen when we are all carrying devices with us and can follow along? Even full-screen QR codes are simply too tiny to resolve.

Jumping on the Wi-Fi woes bandwagon. I quit trying to connect after half-way through the first day.

Jumping on @Brad_G's comments regarding advanced topics. I went to all the "advanced" sessions and unfortunately didn't leave with much to "take-away" from those sessions that could be used in my organization outside of new Netboot solutions.

Also, more panel discussions could be beneficial. Could have discussions on Deployment, Management/Maintenance., iOS, Network/Security, Enterprise, Imaging, K-12 (Small/Med & Large) etc.

My social skills aren't as polished at @bentoms so I think being able to participate in these discussions could help build relationships more effectively than the keynote/lecture style presentations. Especially being able to direct myself a group of people in similar organizations or situations. :-)

I noticed that several participants were Technology Integration specialist from many K-12 entities. Many of these people expressed to me that most of the sessions were way too technical and somewhat useless to them. I believe the conference has come to a point that it can grow tremendously by possibly offering more educational (K-12/Post Secondary) sessions. Sessions that are not needed for the majority of participants that deal with the technical end of MDM/BYOD/One-to-One, but would entice those from the curriculum/usage side in K-12 and post secondary education. Possibly run the conference Monday through Wednesday for the "IT crowd," and then Wednesday through Friday for the Education participants. Naturally you would have a nice crossover of participants and attract MANY new partners and sponsors from the educational market. The use of Casper Focus and the power of JSS in the classroom will give educators and integration specialist a greater understanding of the broad reaching possibilities they have at their fingertips. This would open the door for several wonderful sessions pertaining to K-12/Postsecondary use.

Looking forward to next year!

For folks that might want to present in the future, here is a handy guide on helping create accessibility in conference presentations. It's from the academic world but seems apt for this conference also.

https://www.academia.edu/9098718/Tips_for_Creating_the_Accessible_Conference_Presentation

It may be handy for JAMF to keep some of these things in mind for future presentation templates. In particular, improving contrast and recommended font sizing to ensure readability at future JNUCs.

Great feedback. I'll add to the WIFI part as really being the only shortcoming. I did find one spot in the theater that WIFI was always working well for me though, but I'm keeping that a secret for next year just in case! ;-) I'd agree that we could compact the between-break time down to 45 or 30 minutes to get another session in each day, but keep the long lunch. The long lunch was really great to network with people and I found it very valuable. The 1 hour between sessions... Not so much. There are lots of allotted times for networking, so break it up to 'session time' and 'networking time/food/whatever'.

I found something in all of the sessions but I wonder if a compromise between a 'call for presentations' and a 100% JAMF curated presentations as it is now might be a 'call for questions to answer at the JNUC' with a vote up/down system. Then, JAMF can curate what questions you want to answer and work with your partners/clients/others in the nation to answer those questions.

I believe strongly that mixing the EDU and Enterprise crowds is a plus. There is more in common there than we seem to think with only a few exceptions.

The screens this year did seem to be lower contrast than in the past. Maybe it's because I'm a year older but I did find several pieces of information harder to read than last year or the year before. Text just seemed a bit 'soft'. I'm waiting on the recordings for a couple things I missed because I couldn't read it quickly/accurately enough.

From the EDU side, I don't think there were enough intro classes. There are a lot of new people in the iPad space. I noticed in my presentation and in conversations with some people after that they were quite new and were feverishly trying to keep up with info I had listed in a 'matter of fact' style in my slides. It was also a note to me for the future as I'm glad I at least had those prompts for conversation during our Q & A. On that subject, keep encouraging presenters to leave ~15 minutes for Q&A, there were AWESOME questions and answers! Also, there should at least be an abbreviated or at least specified track for EDU technology integrationists. There were many of them there and I also heard that most sessions were too technical for them. They are more on the 'application of the technology' side, not the technical implementation side so finding a way to include them would be good.

For the sessions, maybe every presenter could have an 'open lab' time set aside upstairs, so you could do a "If you liked my workflow on this during the presentation, come see us in the XYZ classroom at 2pm tomorrow and you can see every detail" or something like that. At least more planful on that.

Finally, keep it at the Guthrie. Even if it sells out sooner, keep it there. There is SO MUCH to be said about not being in some conference hall somewhere...

I'm a K-12 IT director and I only manage iPads, a few macs but I don't manage any macs in my JSS. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE label classes as "applies to" OSX or iOS. A simple icon near the title would do.

Lack of IPs of course was a drag.

I'd actually vote for another venue. The Guthrie is a beautiful facility but it's theaters, not classrooms. I'd much prefer a classroom setting with tables / desks over the theater arrangement with only my lap to work on. My favorite conference site was at a building on a college campus when school was out. The space was perfect for instruction as that is what it was designed for. Not being able to easily move into or out of an in progress session and no desk space for me was a problem.

I'm very technical with PCs, amateur with Mac, intermediate with iPad. What edu admins like me need is sessions where we are shown, step by step; here's how to deal with students using cellular hotspots to bypass filtering, here's how we manage what AirPrinter users on different subnets can print to, this is how to manage caching iOS updates, how to apply policies based on what network segment an iOS device is associated to or whatever issues apply to most K-12s but we don't get out of our schools much so that's what helps us, just having time to ask counterparts, what do you do about __?

Oh and I can't imagine planning this type of event so overall, yes it went very smoothly and clearly tons of planning goes into these events. Thank you!