It’s been a slow few weeks since my last update. This week I did a call with Karla and Wes from PASS HQ to go over the SQLSaturday IT wish list, prioritizing requests as high, medium, and low, and then turning Wes loose to do the hours estimate on the medium and high items. It […]
Read more "PASS Update #67"Today the slate of candidates for the 2012-2013 term was announced; Adam Jorgensen, Denise McInerney, Geoff Hiten, Kendal Van Dyke, Rob Farley, and Sri Sridharan. We’ve got six candidates to fill three seats (two additional seats will be filled by appointment next year to fill the vacancies created due to Mark Ginnebaugh and I leaving […]
Read more "PASS Update #67 (Election)"Just saw the official announcement MS TechEd will be in Orlando June 11-14, 2012, at the Orange County Convention Center. Here in Orlando that means we need to get busy with oPASS and ONETUG to see if we can engage some of the speakers that will be in town for the week – always seems […]
Read more "TechEd Comes to Orlando in June 2012"I was astounded to see this blog at #4 on the list from the recent SQL Server Magazine Community Choice Awards.
Read more "SQL Mag Top 10 Bloggers"Here is something else that started in Florida (doesn’t everything?), a series of events along the lines of Code Camp and SQLSaturday for IT professionals called IT Pro Camps. It’s a group that has been way under served and I hope this will be the start of changing that. There is one coming up in […]
Read more "A Plug for IT Pro Camps"Quick notes as it is already Thursday! The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting with Richie Rump, John Welch, and Joe Celko. It was interesting to see how many speakers I didn’t know – just a different crowd for the BI event, clearly I need to network more […]
Read more "Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa"With a little bit of luck I’ll be arriving in Orlando today around 9 am as I return from SQLConnections in Las Vegas, headed to work, and then somewhere around 3 or 4 pm leaving for the 2 hour drive to Tampa for the speaker dinner and then the big event tomorrow. I’ll just be […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa–Tomorrow!"Last week I emailed the Board of Directors my resignation effective December 31st of this year, ending my current term one year early. It’s a decision I’ve been thinking about since May and explaining it could well consume several posts – though I’m not sure it would be that interesting! I’m no less passionate about […]
Read more "PASS Update #66 (All Good Things)"After enjoying the entirely reasonable weather in Seattle in October this year we’ll return to our more traditional time frame for the 2012 PASS Summit year on Nov 6-9, 2012, at the Convention Center in Seattle. Super early bird registration runs until Nov 15th of this year – that gets you the Summit for only […]
Read more "Next PASS Summit is Nov 6-9, 2012"I’m writing this at the Seattle airport on Friday night with a couple hours to relax before the midnight flight home. Overall its been a good week. Nothing major went wrong, met a lot of new people, got to see a lot of old friends. Some things that stand out for me: The weather was […]
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