Help us choose the sessions for BriForum 2008 Chicago

Warning: Not sure if it's what you intended (text above suggests not), but for me the survey only allows one tick per column / per section.  ie if you say yes to row 1 and yes to row 3 the yes tick moves to row 3 implying it's going to register only that vote. Same behaviour in ff & ie.

Brian,

 If the VDI sessions are going to start taking over, I'm going to have to start re-thinking attending BriForums.   We're going on year three on the VDI discussions and lets look at big picture...nothing's changed.  XP on VMWare, a connection broker and a client device.  Citrix is still talking about there end to end turnkey solution that still isn't available yet.  VMware released a VDI solution that sucks and the only solid players are the ones that have been around from the last 2 years - VMware and Provision.

I'd rather see you focus on what made you, well, you....Application delivery and Terminal services.

Hey Tony,

Thanks for the post.  I think you pointed out some things that I need to clear up about this survey:

The topics listed in the survey are the presentations that were submitted during the Call for Papers period that ended April 1st.  So it's not that VDI sessions are taking over, it's just that these are the topics that were submitted.

We'll use the results of the survey, plus our own ideas, to generate the actual session list next week.  Our goal is to have a conference with an even mix of SBC, Virtualization (platform and application), and VDI, since those are the topics that fall under the Application Delivery arena.

Members of the community can have a great influence on the content at BriForum by submitting their own sessions and/or completing the survey.  Please make use of the "Other" fields or the text box at the end to submit more ideas.  They don't have to be full-blown presentation ideas - just thoughts about what you'd like to see covered.

Hope that helps.  BriForum is all about the community and what their wishes are (if it wasn't, nobody would come!), which is why we reach out to everyone for some guidance from time to time.  The better the feedback, the better BriForum can be!

Thanks,

Gabe 

One more thing...

After we use this information to put together a list of breakout sessions, we'll probably create another survey to get some potential attendance numbers so that we can make the actual agenda.  We use the information from that survey to decide which presentations go into which rooms, so we don't run into situations where 200 people try to cram into a 50 person room at the same time a presenter is speaking to a 3/4 empty 200 seat room.

Just because it's listed under VDI doesn't mean thats all that presentation is about. The presentation I submitted is listed under the VDI section but I will only talk about VDI maybe 1/3 of the time. Mine is the "Case Study: Public Schools Dynamic Desktop". We are using terminal servers, application virtualization, and VDI to create our working environment. While I do talk about VDI, it's really about a whole lot more. I think you should take the time to look at each presentation and choose based on it's merits. Please don't dismiss it just because it's listed under VDI.

Robbie Perdue