Many of you know me, but some do not. I have been training people how to use Mikrotik's RouterOS since before Mikrotik had it's first training class (at least in the US) back in 2004. In those early days, we could not hold enough classes to satisfy the needs of the user base. We were turning people away due to over full classrooms.

Fast forward to 2009 and we see far smaller classes and MANY more trainers in the marketplace. I see some good training events and some that are not worth attending at any price. (Don't ask, I will only tell you MINE is good. I won't tell you which are bad.) I would like to see what kind of training Mikrotik users would like to see. I am willing to put together some training events, but want to offer courses that cover the specific needs of the end users. (I have an online course coming up next week, which you can view details at http://www.butchevans.com/ ).

My questions:
1. If you have attended a training course (any training course), do you feel that it covered the information you were looking for when you signed up?

2. If you could pick the top 3 topics you'd like to see training offered for, what would it be?

3. Given a choice of "live and in person", "live and online" and "recorded online or otherwise", which would you pick (and why)?

4. If you have NOT attended any trainings on RouterOS, what is the primary reason you have not attended?

Feel free to post your opinions here or direct email to butche@butchevans.com. In case you are wondering, I am planning my next year's training schedule and want to get some feedback (in advance) for what topics the users are looking for in a training event.

On Czech MUM of 2008, there were a mikrotik idea of making some groups with different topics to discuss with.. the "birds of feather" they called it..
The group that had a QoS, packet flow, shaping and related, had something like 40 ppl in...
MPLS group had 6 ppl in (I was there and we talked all the time about mikrotik's changelogs)
Antennas selection group never started..
So, i think one of the most interesting topic is QoS and the different way to shape a traffic.
I would find interesting a lesson on RF (LOS, fresnel) and how you can recognize problems regarding RF interferences using mikrotik.
Another interesting topic is scripting, with some monitor script (like latency monitor or voltage monitor) with mikrotik

Just my 2 cents (and i apologize for my bad english)

Thank you very much for your feedback. It just so happens, that I am teaching a QOS course next week!