perfSONAR User Q&A and Other Discussion

[Casey Russell <>]

Jason, (and group)

     I'm just returning from a week of vacation, so I'm a bit slow in sending this, and although I watched the first 5 videos last week I almost didn't even think to send a response.  But I was reminded this morning of an important failure in user feedback loops.

     It's easy to spend a weeks or months on something like this video series, finish it, send it out to a group of users and think (when you hear nothing but crickets back) that it wasn't worth the effort.

     I wanted to tell you that's not the case here.  Thank you to ALL who participated.  I saw Hervey Allen, Kevin Thompson and other familiar faces who aren't even a direct part of the PS developer's group.  

     I just wanted you to know that, although I almost forgot to even say thank you, KanREN has already shared the videos internally with all of our network administrators.  These are users who normally only use PS on an as-needed basis for path troubleshooting.  I'll be watching them all, and our Director of Network Services gave high praise when they were forwarded to him, he's watched many of them himself already.

     So, we (the users) forget sometimes to tell you how much a resource like this gets used and means to us, but a video series like this is the type of entry-level, easily digestible documentation that PS has needed for some time.  Thank you so much for creating it.  I'm looking forward to the Science DMZ series as well.

Sincerely,

Casey Russell

Network Engineer

785-856-9809

2029 Becker Drive, Suite 282
Lawrence, Kansas 66047

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:29 PM, Jason Zurawski <> wrote:

Greetings All;

The Department of Energy’s Energy Sciences Network (ESnet), and the
Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) at the University of Oregon have
teamed up to create an extensive video training library to help
organizations improve the performance of their networks by deploying the
perfSONAR network measurement tools and the Science DMZ network
architecture.

The library of short videos, organized by content area, can be found
here: https://learn.nsrc.org/perfsonar

A full news release on this project can be found here:
http://es.net/news-and-publications/esnet-news/2016/new-training-videos-leverage-esnet-s-expertise-to-improve-network-performance-around-the-world/

Thanks;

-jason