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First MSP Adria workshop
From 4th to 6th of June, Microsoft organized first MSP Adria workshop that was held in Split, Croatia. There was 15 MSPs from Serbia, Slovenia and Croatia on this first workshop. With them came ADE from their country, Zoran Subic from Serbian sub, Oliver Zofic from Slovenian sub and Marko Sever from Croatian sub. Here is a report written by Marko Sever…
The idea for organizing this workshop came a year ago, but this was the best time to organize this event. Reasons for which Microsoft wanted to do so can be put in several points:
- Our three countries share the same cultural and historical heritage, we also speak the same language. It seems natural to make a connections between best MSPs from Adria countries, because they are dealing with very similar challenges, on their own original way. We need to mix all those experiences in order to get the best possible effect on student bodies in all countries.
- Educational systems in our countries are also very alike.
- It is good to reward our best MSPs, at the end of a very long academic season, and take them to see other countries and to have some networking with their peers.
- ADEs could share their experiences also, and get to know each other a little bit better.
- If we make this gathering traditional, it could be a motivation for younger MSPs to get involved even more, and “earn” their trip abroad
Like I have stated already best case practice examples were the main reason that we wanted to organize this event, which I will try to explain in a few words for each country:
- MSPs from Serbia talked about organizing Student Tech Clubs by which they stated that it was their best case practice. They are organizing STC as student community. They are organizing workshops for STC in their institutions for students. They have reached approximately 100 students with STC. Also the best practice is that with STC all of the students have learned more about MS technologies.
- MSPs from Slovenia have talked about two best practices. One was regarding School of the future program that they have started with Gymnasium and economics high school in Trbovlje. In the past 3 years they have renewed hardware for the school through government and EU grants, and they are managing to make this school the first example of the School of the future program by Microsoft in Slovenia. They managed to implement Single Sign-On on all applications with Microsoft Active Directory integrated with school information system, MSDN AA, Live@EDU, billboard school TV with calendar and restricted wireless access (EDUROAM). The other was about sharing best-practice on how to build MSP community and what does Slovenian MSPs do to address more students. The presentation was about events, community site, workshops and good engagement of MSPs in companies.
- MSPs from Croatia talked about organizing events on institutions, Open Days, Student Technology Days and Install Fests. Through this events they are reaching students to get informed of the presence of MS technology on their institutions and all Microsoft programs that their institution is involved with
This was a great opportunity to put together MSPs from the region and to see what we can do together. One of the ideas that came during the workshop was to organize together student community portal and video portal, and also to bind together MSPs for discussion through live group and SharePoint that we have in Croatia. Each country is unable to achieve desired amount of content, but if we work together we could manage to have always updated and rich content portals. This is the first combined program that we will get involved with.
Some thoughts from MSPs that were on the workshop:
“We met differences about approach to our target group and attitudes in project realization. Now, we have a picture how far we are, comparing us with our colleagues from Croatia and Slovenia, and we settled base for further actions. Best practice workshops were as valuable as exchanging experience about mistakes and failures. Now we know at which points to pay attention, which are crucial ones, and which are less important, in the context of our region. I’m looking forward to develop our cooperation, make it deeper and stronger, and hope that results we reach will be recognized as successful and valuable”, from Jelena Milicevic, MSP in Serbia.
“MSP EX-YU Summit was important to me because of the best practices presented by others which I was able to get to know during the group lectures which were held by other MSPs. Also, I am convinced that the personal contact established with other EX-YU MSPs (from Croatia and Slovenia) during the course of the summit will be an awesome benefit in any future joint projects that are bound to happen. P.S. I had an ok time too.”, from Dejan Dimitrijevic, MSP in Serbia.
“I really learned a lot from my colleagues, so I’m eager to use this new found knowledge in real time situations (in the next school year) and pass it to other colleagues in region. Through the whole workshop, our cultural „barriers“ didn’t make any problems for us to comprehend and work with one another, and I look forward to meeting with them again, to exchange new experiences!”, from Miloš Duric, MSP in Serbia.
“Cool place, inspiring talks, great people! Unforgettable! We have to repeat that.”, from Ales Rosina, MSP in Slovenia.
“It is fascinating to see fellow MSPs having the same problems as we. I got a handful of ideas in dealing with certain problems and I hope we meet again next year.”, from Tadej Žlak, MSP in Slovenia.
“I had lots of fun and gained new knowledge and friends. We should do it again A.S.A.P.”, from Andrej Šlegl, MSP in Slovenia.
“It was a nice trip. Next time we should take one week off.”, from Jernej Kavka, MSP in Slovenia.
“This was a summit to remember and it cheered everyone, and helped everyone to come to a lot of new information and to meet many new people! Definitely, we all agreed that it would be great if this continued, and become a practice. We came to a lot of information and ideas used by colleagues from neighboring countries and we hope that some of them will be implemented here so that we could make the MSP program better.“, from Silvio Šagovac, MSP in Croatia.
“I had really great time at EX-YU MSP workshop in Split, because I met Microsoft student partners from other countries who are doing fantastic job promoting Microsoft and it’s technologies to the students. „Best practices“ lectures were very useful, because I learned about some great activities that I could do on my University. And I’ll organize them! Three days were filled up with great lectures about Microsoft’s technologies, and this was very cool way to share knowledge. I am very proud that I was at the first EX-YU MSP workshop, and I hope Microsoft will organize more workshops for Microsoft student partners.”, from Ilija Brajkovic, MSP in Croatia.
“Well, I think this summit was a really good job. That was some kind of integration workshops and rest. At the first sight I thought that would be too much busy for that three days, but we were organized very well. We emended our knowledge, and at the end of every day we made some kind of best practice lesson where we opened discussion and where we tried to find solve of our worse practice. It is so good to hear good things from your coevals and suggestions. I need to say that I am so glad for our conclusion that we need, can and must do something together in close future. This was the best way to introduce MSP fellows and beginning to built something new and special.”, from Marko Gulan, MSP in Croatia.
We all think this kind of events are very useful for small subs and countries because in combining efforts we can do much more then by ourselves. When we did not work, we had relaxing time. We went out to the city together to socialize. Also during Friday’s afternoon we had a Split city tour with a tourist guide so all MSPs could know a little history of the place where we had our workshop.
In the behalf of Zoran, Oliver and me I wish to specially thank Andrey Terekhov for supporting this event, especially making it possible with financial aid. Also I would like to thank Zoran and Oliver that have contacted me with this idea, and that they have managed to come with their MSPs to Split so we could organize this great event, which have gave all of us more enthusiasm, great ideas and started new projects so we could do even better work in our subs.
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As you can read in my comment, for me this event was great, and I’m looking forward to attend more events like this.
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