On Tuesday 17 Jan 2006 6:44 pm, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
Will not work. Most people will not configure clusters and mailservers everyday. Besides it is not easy to teach this. Most of these activities are not trivial and require specialised knowledge which is diffcult to impart in a few days. Musch of the knowledge comes through years of experience in these fields. Unleashing a group of experts on clueless h/w vendors is a really bad idea. They are hardware vendors and not cluster/farm consultants for a reason.
no reason why we shouldnt give them a reason to dream
...etc . Also organising a conference/workshop is a lot more work than you imagine.
no harm in doing some work - i will pitch in