| Summary of Feedbacks (CAST) |
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| April 2012 | |
 CAST was held on 16 April 2012 with 19 persons attending. The atmosphere throughout the seminar which took 8 hours was pleasant and productive for all. Feedbacks from peers were entirely positive with most rating the seminar top at 5 out of 5 for valuable and wanting to come back for a refresh within 2 years and the remaining people rating it at 4 for valuable and will recommend it to colleagues. In fact, half of the class were 1st timers and the others have attended CAST for up to 10 times previously for the last 10 years. An angry cat was watching us like a boss. It is a slide shown in the opening of the seminar and this may have helped everyone to concentrate. Is this true? Smile. We have processed the feedbacks collected at the end of the seminar and taken all inputs on board. For example, we will definitely provide hot chocolate next time if not hot coffee from an Espresso machine (thanks to Jason). We will stop turning on a huge ventilation fan which is very noisy and will rely on other means of quiet ventilation (thanks to Juno). We will repeat a few sessions in our monthly CPD program for 2012 to revisit some very useful contents (thanks to Jeff, Allan, Dave and JC). The tentative plan is to repeat Windows Diagnostic in May, IPv6 in June, Diagnosis Tools in July, and Hyper Visor in August. Some contents of System Architecture, Graphics, RAID and IPMI will be incorporated in standard CPD sessions. We will arrange with the respective speakers for their availability. The CAST manual has a new format this time. It has included more introductory and background notes for each session. These notes are expected to help focussing during the seminar and finding related information on our website after the seminar. In order to save paper and reduce the time for manual binding, the manual did not include all slides presented in the seminar and those included were rather small to read. We apologise for this short-coming but otherwise we would take 10 more hours and 2000 more sheets to prepare and bind the manuals. Thank you speakers, advisers, and peers for making this knowledge transfer event a success. Click here to return |