SQLRally After Hours

One of the things we’re trying to do at SQLRally (May 2011 in Orlando!) is support and grow the social events that happen after the close of the official program. How do we do that? I’ve got a couple ideas, hope you’ll send more: Provide an ‘after hours’ page on the SQLRally web site (coming […]

PASS SQLRally Pre-Conference Seminars – The Application Process

Today we’re announcing the call for speakers for pre-conference seminars at the first SQLRally being held in Orlando in May 2011. Please follow this link (login required) to the final guidance. For those of you that read the earlier draft there are only a few changes that matter, all resulting from the great comments […]

SQLRally Meeting Minutes

The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up, but the minutes of our planning meetings so far are now available thanks to some work from PASS HQ, you can see them at http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally.aspx. I hope you’ll read them. I know minute aren’t page […]

SQLRally Pre-Con Selection Process – Draft for Comment

Hopefully you’ve heard by now that PASS is launching a new event format called SQLRally in May 2011 in Orlando. It will be a two day conference, preceded by one day of seminars. Because it’s a new format, we can – if we choose – build a new process for how we pick these seminars. […]

Logo Selected for SQLRally

Hopefully everyone saw the announcement already, either via the PASS Connector or the Twitter announcement, but we have – finally! – a logo: I think it’s pretty good and almost everything I hoped for; simple, clean, emphasis on SQLRally but still showing the PASS association. The one thing we didn’t get was the checkered flag, […]

Reminder to Vote for the SQLRally Logo

Kendal Van Dyke blogged about it last week here, we ended up with 3 great designs to pick from for the new SQLRally event format (coming to Orlando in May 2011), all you have to do is help us pick the best one! Voting Link: http://www.sqlpass.org/Events/PASSSQLRally/LogoVote.aspx Which will look good on a web site? On […]

Help Build the SQLRally Speaker/Topic Selection Process – Part 1

Last week we announced PASS SQLRally, the new event that we’ll be holding in May 2011 in Orlando (aka the “Spring Event”). A big item is deciding how we want to pick speakers and build the schedule. We have a process we use for the Summit and we could use that, but if we’re building […]

SQLRally Logo Contest

Kendal posted the announcement yesterday that we opened the design content on 99designs. I’ve used the site before and it’s a decent system, typically get a logo for around $200 – and you get to pick from a lot of options. I know most of us are data people, but probably more than a few […]

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