First, some background. If you’ve been to the Summit you know that we have an opening night reception, lots of buffet food, some years even a free drink or two. It’s part networking, part party, which in my view don’t always go well together, but usually the room is big enough that the networkers can […]
Read more "My Idea for the PASS Summit 2010 Opening Night Reception"SQLSaturday #38 is coming up on May 8th, 2010, back at the same location as in previous years at the University of North Florida campus. The schedule was just published, 36 one hour sessions across 6 tracks – looks good! I’m presenting one session this time, hope to see you there!
Read more "Schedule Published for SQLSaturday #38 in Jacksonville"Decided to scrap the pizza this month after one too many late deliveries from Pizza Hut, went with sandwich platters from Publix. Ordered 2 platters, got a couple bags of chips, and some packages of Oreo’s for about the same cost as 10 pizzas. We started a bit late with much lower than average attendance, […]
Read more "Notes from the April 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting"Just set up SQLSaturday #47 in Phoenix for July 17, 2010 at Devry. Call for speakers is open, good to see some events happening out west!
Read more "SQLSaturday #47 Coming to Phoenix!"SQLSaturday #46 will be held in Raleigh, NC on September 18, 2010, under the direction of Brett Tomson and team – go Brett! Call for speakers is open.
Read more "Announcing SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh"The minutes from the March 2010 Board meeting were released last week and I hope you’ll review them carefully. Viewing them requires you to login to sqlpass.org: http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=43G0tE2S2Eg%3d&tabid=118 (Day 1) http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Y3yFt1KWIdQ%3d&tabid=118 (Day 2) Note: We seem to have to have failed to post the Feb 2010 minutes, will check into that. I think the March […]
Read more "PASS Update #29 (March 2010 Meeting Minutes)"Sanj Gandham from PASS HQ set up a basic template for SQLSaturday presentations, you can download it from here. Our plan is to post a link to it on the session submission page, and then leave it up to each event leader as to whether they’ll use this template or a different one. If you’ve […]
Read more "SQLSaturday PowerPoint Template – Looking for Suggestions"Several weeks ago I was invited to attend a ‘tweetup’ by Microsoft on April 8th, an almost all expenses paid trip to Redmond for an event aligned with the upcoming SQL 2008 R2 launch. I was a bit surprised to be invited, as I spend a lot more time blogging than tweeting (and no, no […]
Read more "Notes from the R2 Tweetup"I did an hour or so call with Jack Corbett recently to review what we hope to accomplish this year. We came out of it with a few ideas: We want to run a dedicated sponsor track. We think sponsors will find it valuable, but so will our attendees – a chance to see a […]
Read more "Early Planning for SQLSaturday Orlando 2010"We’ve been busy on the transition and we’re finally at a place where we can give you an update on what we’re doing and how things will proceed going forward. As we got past the initial stages of the project we ran into concerns in these areas: Technology Transfer Support hours from PASS HQ PASS […]
Read more "PASS Update #28 (SQLSaturday Transition)"
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