+16Thanks to everyone who came to Minneapolis last week to create the best JNUC ever! While the event is still fresh in everyone's mind, we'd love to hear your ideas for making it even bigger and better next year.
Also, thanks again to the presenters who put a ton of effort into all the amazing sessions. It wouldn't be the JNUC without you!
cam
+26They were able to stream the Keynote in the McGuire stage for overflow. I don't think hooking up GoToWebinar or uStream would be that much of a reach. I don't think it would be a bandwidth issue, as the bandwidth at the Guthrie was fine, it was just the IP pool and wifi interference causing issues (from what I could tell).
+11Sign me up for more technical sessions, in-depth, and maybe even required pre-reading (or understanding). If a presentation is flagged advanced, so it should be.
This year, some presentations were rather short.
I have no problem with getting another session in during the day, at least in the afternoon. When you travel the world, you want to max the outcome. Starting at 8am and finish at 5pm or even 6pm would be no problem, rather advantageous. That way, we could have 6 sessions a day, or make way for longer, more in-depth sessions spanning several hours.
JAMF should really look into the idea of @mhasman. A "what's new" and "best practice"-session would be awesome.
Success-stories are nice, but there should be more time allocated to really show off any smart solutions so that we all can benefit. If they are proprietary and not shareable, so be it, but otherwise, that would really be great thing to bring back home.
+12A few thoughts, unrelated to each other...
It was my first JNUC and I thought it was superbly organised. As for what I would like to see ...
As said previously a distinction between EDU and enterprise (maybe even so on attendee badges) that way if I wanted to find someone to chat with from Enterprise at lunch, they would be wearing a different colour badge. Also a tag on the session to say the session would be better suited for EDU or enterprise might help first timers.
Demos/Best Practises. They would be great. EG, walk up to a station they can demo imaging workflows/ some cool scripts (anything really).
It would be great to have the session videos immediately, this may be a little too much as but would be really helpful to recap and the end of the day in the hotel.
Personally for me Wifi isn't a priority, yes it was nice when it worked but not a game changer
It was my first JNUC as well and I thought it was very well done.
I kept wondering how many attendees were .edu versus enterprise, it would be nifty to get a sense of the crowd, maybe some stats during the keynote.
+20As a new Casper Admin and first-time JNUC attendee, I was hoping for:
• Presentations by JAMF Employees
• Hands-on workshops
• Posting presentation resources on JAMF Nation before the session
Also, the Wi-Fi could be harder, better, faster, stronger.
The Mini-Sessions were awesome—thank you JAMF for hosting the Beer Swap—and I also got to connect with a local admins group from Southern California.
+11Two quick ideas:
+1My two cents are:
A better wifi would be great, some of us had to do work while at JNUC. Maybe a vendor would want to setup wifi at the Guthrie as an advertisement ( though that would be bad if it all falls apart though)
8th floor could be used for Smaller sessions. The hallways and other areas were actually fairly quiet enough during sessions.
Shorter sessions for quicker items - longer ones for more complex or time consuming items - more time slots - 5pm isn't that late is it?
Possibility of using Aloft meeting rooms or the Mill Museum meeting rooms? Maybe for the Vendors / Sponsors? JAMF's Update or info meetings? Not all of us knows everything about JAMF and it would give us a reason to go to another building to see the Vendors.
+27We all agree with the WiFi requests but I like the sponsor idea. I know that I mentioned some of the Xirrus arrays that could easily handle the traffic so long as the rest of the infrastructure can. That said, it may be time for the conference to broaden out a little bit. I do mean a "little" though. I like kind of having to bump into folks and have conversation start up simply by overhearing some tidbit or other.
As for the separation of EDU, Small Business, Gov/Corporate tracks I'm a bit torn. I certainly understand the difference of opinion and focus, however I don't think that they are as opposed as so many seem to think. I tend to spend a lot of time listening to large corporate concerns as they expose me to ideas that I may not have otherwise considered and apply them within our space. At the same time, I see just as many schools and corporations dealing with large scale, nepotistic cruft (i.e. fighting with AD, InfoSec, etc). So, I'm in favor of sticking with the defining of broader topics to be discussed (Imaging, deployment, DEP, Security, etc). That way, all concerned can mix and match easily based on interest. However, I wouldn't mind different colors of badging if that would help some. Yet, I still encourage everyone to break out of your comfort zone and stop making silos of your experiences! We all have a LOT to learn form each other!
+23The main difference between corporate and edu is that edu (particularly higher ed) has guidelines we must stick by. We are a university, so we have other guidelines that we must go by (TBR policies, HIPAA, HITECH, NOAH, State of TN, etc.). Corporate "writes their own" policies when it comes to computer management (on/off domain, software security, etc.).
I feel that the EDU spectrum could benefit from having their own JNUC, just my $.02
+24Corporate "writes their own" policies when it comes to computer management
Not necessarily. Often times companies fall under regulatory or statutory requirements due to the industry that they're in. FINRA, NISPOM, PCI DSS, DISA, HIPPA, DOD directives, Presidential Directives, Homeland Security Directives, Intrinsic Safety... The list goes on.
+23While what you state is true for EVERYONE, the EDU spectrum has different directives and policies (government related) that corporations write on their top end (non-government) such as FERPA. I've been in higher ed for 10 years now after moving out of the corporate world, so I have a good feel of both "realms".
+8My suggestion:
I had some frustrations with the Intermediate/Beginner/Advanced designations for the JNUC presentations this year -- I thought they weren't very accurate. I went to several that I would have classified as beginner topics that were listed as advanced topics. As a result, some of the sessions, while helpful for some I'm sure, were somewhat a waste of my time.
I think listing prerequisites of knowledge (or experiences) would be more effective than having presenters self-judge how advanced their material is. And it would make it so JAMF didn't need to gauge that either. I've talked with several other admins around my area that attended JNUC 2015 and they seemed to express some of the same frustrations. The folks I bounced this off of seemed to think this was one possible was to resolve that.
Maybe there's a better way to achieve this, but it feels like the current way things are rated is somewhat broken.
+27@betty02 If by "goody bags" you mean some swag and a lot of food and available adult beverages, then they've got you covered. Honestly, I can't believe that the conference is free. There's an absolute ton that goes into it. Then again, it is a user community conference so... Regardless, it's still the best Apple centric conference I've ever attended (Yes, that includes MacWorld).
Enter your E-mail address. We'll send you an e-mail with instructions to reset your password.
