Karl Widmer

Swiss German VMUG Meeting on 8th of June 2017

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Today we proudly announce our first VMUG meeting! Please mark this day in your calendar!

Our VMware User Group existed for some years but wasn’t really active. Now we try to push it again to a new level. We already had an inital meeting to set the goals of our VMUG and discussed what we can do like events, meetings and so on. Actually we have only one leader, but a very competent management committee. Without the help of you guys it would not be possible to organize and manage everything itself. Thank you very much!

But now to the real thing. You probably wanna know more about the when, where and what of our first meeting. Here we go!

Date / Time

  • Date: Thursday, 8th of June 2017
  • Starting Time: 17:30 / 5:30pm (CET / Swiss time)

Location

  • Digicomp Academy AG (Google Maps)
  • Limmatstrasse 50, 8005 Zürich

Agenda

Time Topic Speaker
17:30 Welcome
17:45 Tales from Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery for VMware
vRealize Suite		 Daniele Ulrich, Swisscom
18:15 vRops Bits and Bobs Edgar Carvalho, vMan.ch
18:45 Apero / networking

Registration / More information

Please sign up on Meetup.com for this event.

We recommend using the parking „Parkhaus Hauptbahnhof Sihlquai“ (Sihlquai 41, 8005 Zürich / Google Maps). It’s only about 200 Meters from our meeting location. More information about parking is available here (parkingzuerich.ch).

Partners

We like to thank our partners for making this meeting possible. We’re hosted at Digicomp, a Swiss provider for all kinds of IT related trainings and certifications. We are pleased to have Swisscom Enterprise aboard which is represented by a competent speaker. Also a thank you to Edgard Carvalho, one of our freelance speakers with indepth knowledge about vRops and many other technologies. And last but not least a great thank you to VMware which takes care of the catering.

Hosting

Speaker

Catering, organizational help

Swiss German VMUG Website launched

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Today we launched our own website. As nearly every company or organisation today has it’s own website so we do too. We can now communicate and inform our members and people all around the world on nearly every channel. We’ve got our VMUG community site, we’ve got social media channels on Facebook and Twitter too, and now we’ve got also our own website.

We hope to reach our audience so they can catch the latest bits and bytes from our VMUG. We’ll inform you about our meetings, when the next events are planned and we publish also an agenda for those events. So you can prepare your trip to our events as you need. You’ll find information about the location (like parking information, information about public transportation to and from the location), you’ll find informations about the speakers and many other things.

We are already planning the first event, so make sure you don’t miss the official announcement shortly. Stay tuned!

VMUG Kickoff Meeting

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On the 22nd of March we had our Swiss German VMUG kickoff meeting. The committee members were hosted at VMware Switzerland HQ in Zurich. Many thanks to you guys! It’s always a pleasure to be there!

But we weren’t just there to drink coffee and have a nice afternoon. We did some serious work. We discussed many different topics, ranging from our community goals over events to the next steps to keep the ball rolling. The main target we had today was to have a roadmap and an agenda for our very first event. And we’ve got it! So we can now move on with the next steps of planning our very first event. We will target a date somewhere in June this year at a location with hopefully enough space to host a good amount of people. Don’t forget about catering, and of course interesting topics and great speakers!

Let’s talk about history

The Swiss German VMUG was not very active the last few months and years. When i registered at vmug.com to search for a local user group i found out that there is a VMUG in my region, but it’s not very active, no events nor discussions were there. Last year at VMworld Barcelona i had some good chats with people, VMUG leaders and co-leaders about many VMUG (and for sure VMware) related things. They all encouraged me to become a VMUG leader.

I had many nights with less sleep, thinking about this. How would it be to be a leader? What areas of responsibility are there coming ùp to me? How will people react to this? So i contacted the VMUG HQ and asked how to become a leader. This was not a short-term thing. It took some weeks, having some phone calls, writing mails, doing trainings. And now we brought back new life to our local VMware user group!

Swiss German VMUG on social media

To make sure you don’t miss any bits and bytes we invite you to register on our Swiss German VMUG community site if you’re interested to become a member of our user group (and if you’re located in the German speaking part of Switzerland, which would make sense). We’re also present on Twitter and Facebook! We thank you for a follow, and don’t hesitate to spread the word 😉