This questionaire helps asking the right questions:
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How does the course room look like?
- How many seats and PC-screens are available?
- Is there a "Presenter PC"?
- Is it possible to plug in Laptop? HDMI?
- Which kind the "projector situation" (1 or more, need to have a key)?
- Do you need an adaptor for the projector?
- Which is the OS for participant PCs?
- Which is the software to log in? (putty, mobaxterm, powershell or plain ssh via Linux - or a terminal on demand)
- Is 2FA enforced? Is so: How?
- ssh-keys - are they to be prepared?
- Does the site require course accounts?
- Is it possible to do paired programming?
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Cluster Specialties
- May the course use shared file space for the setup to be copied to? E.g. a workspace? Which are the quota limitations?
- Which editors or IDS are provided?
- Will the course require and / or get a SLURM reservation?
- How long will the course run (number of days)?
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Misc
- Do colleagues on site want to be trained as trainers?