How To Campaign For the PASS Board

Let’s say you’ve decided to run, good! What do you do next? I’m not going to give you a blueprint (I need to see if you have some game after all), but I have some suggestions that I think will help you run a better campaign and make it a better election too: Build a […]

Changes to PASS Voting Eligibility

There was a blurb in the Connector today about an eligibility change for voting. The “change” is a requirement to update your profile (or for those of with more than one, all of your profiles). Here are the fields that are now required on the profile: I don’t have a problem with those, […]

Review of Change to PASS Bylaws

As required, the Board has posted proposed changes to the bylaws for review by the members. The changes are fairly straight forward, reducing the number of Board seats by 2 – a change driven by CA choosing to relinquish their two seats. I like seeing a small and very specific change made, it’s easier to […]

Interview With Rick Bolesta of the PASS Board of Directors

Rick Bolesta and Neil Buchwalter of CA technologies are leaving the Board at the end of 2013. CA and Microsoft were the two ‘founding’ organizations when PASS was chartered and each has had two seats on the PASS Board since then. I caught up with Rick during the 2013 PASS Summit to ask him a […]

PASS Summit 2013-The Entire List of Posts

This year I went with numbers instead of “Monday” or “Day 1”. I think I like it better. Easier to post multiple times if I want to, no glaring gap if I miss a day (I didn’t!). Should have tagged them as “Summit 2013” instead of just PASS, a reminder hopefully for next year. Looking […]

PASS Summit 2013-Almost Final Thoughts

I’m home in Orlando, reveling in not being jet lagged for once. A great traveler I am not. I was on the Board back when the decision was made to go to Charlotte. It was a decision that came with a certain amount of fear – what if things go badly, what if attendance is […]

PASS Summit Report #16 (Mentoring)

A couple years back Steve Jones and I started The Mentoring Experiment. Our first experiments to see how effective non-local mentoring would be. Could we make it work, would people try it? They did try, and it worked, sort of. Mentoring is hard, distance makes it harder. Local is better (we thought so at the […]

PASS Summit 2013-Blogger Interview With PASS Officers

On Thursday the PASS bloggers were given the chance to meet with the PASS officers and I participated along with Tim Mitchell and Mark Vaillancourt. I went in not sure what to expect but I had prepared questions just in case. I’ll write about the results first, then I have some more thoughts about what […]

PASS Summit 2013 Report #15

Slower day today, fewer notes! Most of my morning spent on mentoring and some networking Lunch today was Birds of a Feather, as always I really really like that, it drives a lot of great conversations I sat at the Election/Governance table. Only one person joined while I was there, so that gave me time […]

PASS Summit 2013–Board Q&A

PASS Board Q&A just starting. Session is being recorded – transcript will be published, no decision on whether recording will be published. About 35 people in the audience (I think most ever?). Adam Jorgensen moderating. [This is a very rough transcript, I know I didn’t catch everything and it’s not verbatim for what I did […]