SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando!

We just put the site up, starting a little earlier than last year, and over the course of this week we’ll be finalizing the sponsor plan and the call for speakers. It will be Oct 16, 2010, here in Orlando (Lake Mary – north side of Orlando), and we’re going to try for a solid […]

Notes from the April 13, 2010 oPASS Meeting

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, […]

oPASS April 2010 Meeting is Tonight

Our next meeting is today, April 9, 2010, from 6-8 pm. Our featured speaker is Joe Webb and he’ll be doing a presentation on Data Driven Subscriptions in Reporting Services. Hope you’ll attend if you’re in the area, and if not, join in via Livemeeting using this link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=8RHDGJ&role=attend.

Early Planning for SQLSaturday Orlando 2010

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 […]

The Name Game

I’m in charge of networking and social time for oPASS and I do what I can to help get our members (old and new) get better at networking while at our user group meetings. In the past we’ve done introductions and games and discussion about networking. Worth doing, and effective to a point. This month […]

Notes from the February 2010 oPASS Meeting

Really rainy in Orlando today, traffic is horrible. We had a higher than usual number of RSVP’s for the meeting, but attendance ended up being about our usual, 19 total. Jack did the intro using the PASS chapter deck (the color/gradient on some of the slides needs some work!), and we stretched out the opening […]

oPASS Meeting Reminder – February 9, 2010

Our next meeting is February 9, 2010, We’ve got Ronald Dameron coming to speak this month on Database Hardening using Powershell. We’ll be broadcasting on on LiveMeeting again as well, you can join us for the presentation which should start around 6:45 pm eastern. Here’s the link: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=24PPGB&role=attend.

Notes on the January 2010 oPASS Meeting (Live Meeting)

Before you dig in this post, take a look at my earlier notes about oPASS and Live Meeting and the great after meeting write up from Jack Corbett. Just in case you didn’t read those, the short story is that we had a remote presenter and to try to make it more interactive, we set […]

oPASS & Livemeeting

One of our goals for oPASS in 2010 is to host 12 meetings instead of our usual 6. That doubles the pressure to find speakers of course, so we’re going to try to use Livemeeting to compensate and see what happens. We would still prefer to have all our speakers in person, but at least […]

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