Recently we released the results of the annual survey to determine interests for the 2010 Summit. That’s a step in the right direction, sharing the results, but what we didn’t do was share what we thought we had learned from the results, and we were taken to task some by Steve Jones and Brent Ozar […]
Read more "PASS Update #30 (Surveys)"By the time you read this we’ll have completed the transfer of the SQLSaturday web sites and data to PASS HQ, leaving only the clean up tasks of transferring the domain and the email aliases for active events, something we plan to do by the second week of May. It definitely took longer than I […]
Read more "PASS Update #29"I think we do a pretty good job of delivering technical content, but not such a great job at getting the attendees talking to each other. The speaker side of things has definitely turned into a social event, how do we do that for attendees? I don’t have the answer yet, but we’ve made a […]
Read more "Social Networking and SQLSaturday"SQLSaturday #49 will be held in Orlando on October 16th, 2010, and our call for speakers is now open. We’re looking for diversity of topics and speakers; don’t be afraid to submit a niche topic! This year we’re trying two new things: We’re going to do have one set of ‘super sessions’ from 1-3 pm […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #49 Call for Speakers is Open & Call for Our PreCon Seminar"We’re scheduled to begin moving web sites and data to PASS servers at 12:00 pm Eastern on April 27, 2010. We’ll put up a ‘down for maintenance’ page, but wanted to let everyone know in advance. With luck (and some planning) we’ll get it done in a couple hours and get back to business.
Read more "SQLSaturday Sites Will be Offline For Part of April 27, 2010"A few weeks back PASS sent out a survey to get input on how to shape the 2010 Summit agenda, and now you can see the results. We had 189 people respond, not nearly as many as I would have hoped. It’s a long survey which I’m sure doesn’t help, but I’d like to see […]
Read more "Results of PASS Summit 2010 Content Survey Released"First, some background. If you’ve been to the Summit you know that we have an opening night reception, lots of buffet food, some years even a free drink or two. It’s part networking, part party, which in my view don’t always go well together, but usually the room is big enough that the networkers can […]
Read more "My Idea for the PASS Summit 2010 Opening Night Reception"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.
Read more "oPASS April 2010 Meeting is Tonight"The minutes from the March 2010 Board meeting were released last week and I hope you’ll review them carefully. Viewing them requires you to login to sqlpass.org: http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=43G0tE2S2Eg%3d&tabid=118 (Day 1) http://www.sqlpass.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=Y3yFt1KWIdQ%3d&tabid=118 (Day 2) Note: We seem to have to have failed to post the Feb 2010 minutes, will check into that. I think the March […]
Read more "PASS Update #29 (March 2010 Meeting Minutes)"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 […]
Read more "Early Planning for SQLSaturday Orlando 2010"
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