Outreach: Workshops

Workshops and demos

Tips

When organising an Ansible workshop or giving a demo, there are a couple of things to consider

• Be prepared
• Do you need an internet connection
• Do you really need an internet connection
• Can you do without an internet connection
• What is the level of the audience
• Keep the audience interested, you loose them all to quickly
• Communicate what is needed to attend the workshop (laptop, etc)

As you can see I'm rather hammering on the presence or absence of an internet connection. Always be prepared for a not working or not performing internet connection. I have seen the most crappy connections with a throughput nearing 0.0bps being advertised as 'Broadband Internet Connection'. Do not depend on the connection being up and running.

Starting points

For those planning to give the workshop and are developing their own, some starting points

• https://github.com/ansible-provisioning/workshop-provisioning
• https://github.com/bbaassssiiee/vagransible

When you are planning to give a live demo, during a presentation, make sure that you are selfsupporting.

Some of the demos given in real live:

• https://github.com/danvaida/Ansible-Berlin-Meetup

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