I'm happy to report that last week I was a guest speaker at MCC (Mesa Community College), located in Mesa, Arizona. The class was CIS240DL - Linux Network Administration. During the 4 hour class, I gave a complete presentation on Hobbit, and the instructor and I helped the students install their own Hobbit servers and configure them to monitor services both on the server and some remote clients. We had a couple of snags as all the workstations were CentOS, so we had to perform a few extra steps to get the prereqs, and battle SELinux :-)
It seemed to go very well, and the students seemed impressed and pleased with Hobbit. I think I may have even converted one experienced student who seemed to prefer Zabbix :)
The instructor seemed to enjoy the presentation as well, and it looks like I will also be invited to a repeat performance for the CIS238DL Linux System Administration class. He has also invited me to speak about Hobbit at the local LUG.
So, just reporting that Hobbit is getting lots of exposure here in Arizona! _Henrik, I hope you don't mind, but for my presentation I used the slides you have up on your site as a framework_. I made sure to credit you as not only the main author of Hobbit but as the source of the slides :)
I encourage others to evangelize Hobbit wherever they can. In my experience a lot of people have not heard of it, and once they see it they are like "wow" and want to start using it. The more the community grows, the better our chance of getting acceptance to the various distros, and more volunteers to help contribute code and ideas to help Henrik out.
-Charles