Sydney is one local chapter of VMUG — the VMware User Group, independent and customer-led since 2010.
What happens at a meet-up
Three hours, no pitch deck.
Sessions are built by the community. Sponsors keep the lights on and the food coming, and they get a slot rather than the stage.
Technical presentations
Deep-dives on VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, vSAN and everything around them — from engineers in the field and, often enough, from the product managers who own the roadmap.
Open floor
Bring the thing you are stuck on. Someone in the room has almost certainly hit it already, and the fastest answer is usually two seats away.
vBeers
Sessions wrap and the conversation carries on somewhere nearby. A fair few people rate this as the most useful part of the evening.
Free to attend. Register so we cater the right numbers — that is the only reason it exists.
Between meet-ups
Follow along.
Dates, speaker call-outs, recorded sessions and photos from the night. LinkedIn carries the announcements, X carries the last-minute changes.
Announcements
New dates and speakers go out on LinkedIn first, then everywhere else. Follow that one if you follow nothing else.
Sessions on YouTube
Talks go up when the speaker is happy for them to. The Q&A rarely does, which is a decent argument for turning up.
Photos and the rest
Instagram and Facebook for the room and the people in it. Linktree keeps every current link one tap away.
Get involved
The best sessions come from the room.
If you have migrated something painful, broken something interesting, or built something you are quietly proud of, that is a talk. Twenty minutes is plenty. First-time speakers are actively welcome.