[Concordia] Feedback on Concordia workshop at RSA Conference?

[Eve Maler]

While I agree that there was a dropoff, I just want to note that most  
"interop demo" events these days involve a trade show floor type of  
experience, where there is no speechifying at all and just people  
wandering around...  The first hour was intended to introduce people  
to Concordia, given the large number of signups.

I wonder if we should even have had the "amplified" demos after that  
point; it might have sent a clearer signal to do them all at the back  
of the room after the first hour.  ??

	Eve

On Apr 24, 2008, at 11:27 AM, Beach, Michael C wrote:

> As a member of the audience, +1.
>
>
> Mike Beach, CISSP
> Chief Security Designer
> Information Security
> The Boeing Company
> michael.c.beach at boeing.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ashish Jain [mailto:ajain at pingidentity.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 9:28 AM
> To: cantor.2 at osu.edu
> Cc: 'Concordia Community list'
> Subject: Re: [Concordia] Feedback on Concordia workshop at RSA
> Conference?
>
> + 1.
> I think it was distracting both for the speakers as well as the
> attendees. Additionally, attendees had no reason to stay till the end.
>
>
> On Apr 23, 2008, at 6:50 PM, Scott Cantor wrote:
>
>>> I heard a lot of excellent feedback from general participants, press
>>> and analysts who attended in terms of caliber of material and depth
>>> of
>> knowledge
>>> of participants.  People generally liked that they could either  
>>> "sit,
>
>>> listen, and learn" or go to the rear of the room and dig in deep on
>> specific
>>> topics of individual interest.  I also know that the "competing
>> discussions"
>>> was distracting for some.
>>>
>>> So....feedback on the event and format?  Wish list for future?
>>> Lessons
>>> learned?
>>
>> Well, I can't say I was very fond of the format, no. It was very
>> distracting both for me, and the people I was talking with in the
>> back, and I didn't feel like as though the split focus enabled the
>> people present to learn what we were doing and why. It also seemed to
>> give people license to leave earlier than they might have if they  
>> felt
>
>> that more content would be forthcoming.
>>
>> -- Scott
>>
>>
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