SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Large Printed Schedules

One of the things we’ve done most years in Orlando is to print poster sized schedules. This started out as a supplement to giving everyone a printed schedule and soon replaced it. Posting a handful of these is easy and when the schedule changes, you just send someone with a Sharpie to update them. As […]

SQLOrlando 2019

We just had our final event of the year and looking back, not bad at all. No event in June or November, but 18 overall (16 listed below, plus SQLSaturday, plus I forget to add the half day precon SQLGrease did on Sep 27). Looking at the list I realize we need to work on […]

SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Owning Stuff

One of the choices you make as an organizer is whether to buy anything that you want use or give away at the end of the event. Owning nothing means nothing to store or hand over to the next organizer, no guessing whether it’s worth spending money this year to save money or make things […]

SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Cupcakes & Ice Cream

For the past few years we’ve had a a local sponsor provide cupcakes as the “sweet treat”. We started with mid afternoon but found it worked well if we did right before the end of day raffle gathering. It’s a chance for a bit of networking and it’s a buffer to give attendees something to […]

SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Room Location

We hold our event at a local college. The way it works is our contact tries to reserve ALL of the rooms in the building because we will end up giving some back as classes are scheduled and it’s the easiest way to guarantee we end up with enough rooms. From a scheduling perspective that […]

SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Coffee

I like to say that the goal for any event is to meet the expectations of attendees. The trick is to set the expectations because if you don’t, they will set their own! That’s the case with coffee. It’s not required to have coffee, but if you’re not providing that best to message it loud […]

SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – SpeedPASS

This year for the first time in a long time we pre-printed the SpeedPASS for all attendees and we did it on perforated paper. This was really all about logistics, it’s a pain to have to provide a printer, paper, scisssors, and someone to staff the table for what feels like the penalty line of […]