Don't they curl up north? We could get a game of curl going, not that I have a single clue how any of that stuff even works or the rules.

Dodgeball


Sure that too! That Gold Medal Park next door seemed prime :)

Paintball.

Paintball

You, sir, are talking some sense.

Nothing like talking shop while trading rounds down range!

Well, I would feel sorry for the "Casper Imaging" guy if we had a paintball outing. He would get shot to pieces!

"If you can't dodge a wrench, you can't dodge a ball."

Paintball +1

PaintBall +1!

However, the idea of curling sounds REALLY cool... The St. Paul curling club just across the river is where the US olympic team trains. Not far from the Guthrie!

I really enjoyed all of the user-created content sessions. There was a great mix of JAMF announcement-type sessions and user-run sessions where we all got to see what other Casper Admins are up to. Great conference. We've got a great group here and it was great to hear all of the sessions! I'd love to have them recorded and made available later for the ones we weren't able to get to.

iOS app like Apple's WWDC app, closing session (feedback forum?), a bit better scheduling to try to avoid conflicts (way too many sessions I would like to have gone to that conflicted with 1-2), recording/slides on line, et. al.

Someone also mentioned more Sys Admin stuff. WWDC I guess got rid of the System Admin section. So perhaps next year there could be some presentations and maybe some lab work on being a System Administrator with Casper.

I imagine I won't get a fancy CCA badge since I'm technically expired? Perhaps I can get an honorary JAMF badge instead. ;)

As for feedback about the conference:

1) If you haven't planned on doing a formal follow-up survey so you can more easily tabulate data, you should. We've done it for our conference and its a very valuable resource for planning.

2) The Guthrie, although beautiful was not totally ideal for this conference, look at a conference hotel better suited. I like planning these things so if Crystal needs any help she's welcome to ping me. Let's hear it for Crystal!!

3) I had several pieces of bacon, but I think it was because I was sitting at a table where they were being set down by the servers. I also have the privilege of eating the very last piece, and there is a picture somewhere to prove it. I'm sorry if you did not get bacon. I enjoyed the event at the Triple Rock!

4) The sessions were good, if you could get into them. I'm glad they were so popular. Did Apple not want to have a more visible presence at the conference? I know they had people there, but I figured they might actually want to participate and present something, perhaps along the OS X Lion Server lines the system admin people were talking about.

5) I agree with trying to record the sessions and making presentations available.

I'm sure I'll have more to add later, but this was what I had on my mind. JAMF did a bang up job, and I'm looking forward to next year!!!

3) I had several pieces of bacon, but I think it was because I was sitting at a table where they were being set down by the servers. I also have the privilege of eating the very last piece, and there is a picture somewhere to prove it. I'm sorry if you did not get bacon. I enjoyed the event at the Triple Rock!

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The conference was great - I really enjoyed it! This was my first exposure to JAMF, since we actually just purchased the Casper Suite a couple weeks prior to attending the conference. It was great to get a feel for the company and its people as well as other users of JAMF products. I was really impressed with the conference and the content of the sessions. Here are some thoughts and feedback:

1. The Guthrie is a wonderful location -- even though it's not the perfect fit for a conference, I'd MUCH rather deal with the quirks of a beautiful theater space (only 2 elevators, really?!) than attend a conference in a dull (but admittedly more functional) hotel/conference center. Staying at the Aloft hotel was great too.




2. The birds-of-a-feather meetups (or at least the one I attended) were a disappointment. The topics sounded worthwhile and I headed to a venue expecting that JAMF would have reserved a room for mingling and chatting and perhaps a guided discussion on the designated topic (Lion Deployment, in the case of the one I made it to). Instead I found a packed, loud pub (and venue staff that didn't seem to know about the JAMF event), with a few vaguely familiar faces scattered throughout the crowd, and no possible way of carrying on a productive conversation. So there's room for improvement there!




3. Organizers did a great job seeing to it that folks like me with dietary limitations were taken care of at lunchtime. Thanks very much for that!




4. I like the idea someone above had for a mini-schedule on the back of the badges. That and/or a simple iOS app (or at least a webpage with a mobile-optimized map and schedule of sessions) would be really handy.




5. The format of the sessions was cool -- real world application of the JAMF tools, presented by real customers of JAMF. Unfortunately it wasn't clear up front that this was how it was going to work... Add to that the fact that in almost every session presenter introductions and "who I am, where I'm from" slides were nearly nonexistent. It was a little frustrating (for a newcomer to the JAMF world, as I am) trying to figure out who was who and where the information was coming from! So I'd ask for a bit more focus on clear and concise introductions, with names, titles, companies, etc at the front and end of each session -- that would be nifty.

I hope some of that is helpful to y'all. And here's hoping that I can attend again next year!

Many thanks to all of you for the excellent suggestions! Please keep 'em coming. We are taking all of these to heart as we plan future events and next year's National User Conference. Hope to see all of you again soon!

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Fun party, good bacon if you could get it. The Guthrie while a nice venue was not the most conducive to large classes, or the classes need to be pre registered for and switched to the bigger theater spaces.