Thoughts on the February 11, 2015 PASS Town Hall

I missed the first part of the Town Hall as I had a meeting that ended at 1 pm, but I saw most of it and wanted to share some early thoughts: Excited to see this happen, good step in governance, transparency, and communication Wasn’t well advertised (but I get it was the first one, […]

Thinking on PASS Chapter Elections

One of the conversations I had at SQLSaturday Austin was about Chapters, governance, and edge cases. To really condense and generalize, most Chapters are fairly small in terms of attendances, assets, and revenue. I’d bet it’s a handful or two at most that have bothered to incorporate and without having access to solid numbers, I’ll […]

Notes From SQLSaturday #362 in Austin

Direct flight from Orlando to Austin is nice Austin airport/rental car setup is nice, easy in and out Have to admit the 80 mph zones speed up the drive from the airport up to Round Rock Event was at the Wingate Hotel & Convention Center. Reasonable at $100 night, nothing fancy. Speaker dinner was at […]

Thoughts on Venue Selection for SQLSaturday and Chapter Meetings

Last week oPASS held their January meeting at a wine bar. Before that it was held at a local training institute/college, a restaurant, a different restaurant, a hotel meeting room, I think another restaurant, way back when in my office when I had space, and before that at the local training center. I might have […]

Notes from the January 29, 2015 oPASS Meeting

New location, the Cork and Olive in Lake Mary. Fairly easy to find and easy to get to, plenty of parking Meeting space is high top tables, with room for a screen and there is a monitor already in the room too. Nice space Food was pizza. Blah. Bar doesn’t have iced tea either! The […]

Got Ideas For Improving PASS Chapters? Grant Fritchey is Listening

New PASS Board member Grant Fritchey just did his first post about his activities. He’s just getting started and getting ready for his first meeting, a busy and exciting time. He’s asked for feedback, so I added a comment to his post. I’ve been holding off on a post about Chapters to let him get […]

Thanks To Sri Sridharan For Serving on the PASS Board

I was thinking about Sri today as I volunteered for a task at SQLSaturday Tampa on the new PASS volunteer sign up page. That was part of what he worked on during his two year term and while it may seem like an obvious feature and function, it was only this last year that it […]

Suggestions for PASS: Transparency & Communication

Earlier this week I posted How To Improve The PASS Connector in response to a general request for feedback about the Connector on Twitter. I had been accruing some notes based on my initial efforts on the PASSWatch blog and I used some of that as the source of the Connector suggestions, but I have […]

How To Improve The PASS Connector

I saw this tweet this morning: The Connector is the primary way PASS communicates with the membership, improving it in any way is certainly worth doing. I’m posting my ideas here because it’s noisy on Twitter and it’s a different channel, maybe some of you will see this and submit your own ideas. […]

More Notes From The PASSWatch Project And Thoughts on Transparency

It’s been just over two months since I wrote the first post for PASSWatch. I’m trying hard to keep PASSWatch a “pure” source so I’m posting my notes on it here (and will include the link in the weekly summary of course). I can boil the lessons learned down to this: It’s not enough to […]