We’ve been busy on the transition and we’re finally at a place where we can give you an update on what we’re doing and how things will proceed going forward. As we got past the initial stages of the project we ran into concerns in these areas: Technology Transfer Support hours from PASS HQ PASS […]
Read more "PASS Update #28 (SQLSaturday Transition)"Continuing on from Part 2, I want to continue this time with two points I left open last time: How to qualify who gets help in terms of funding to speak Whether there is really a speaker shortage I want to start with the second point. Is there a shortage of speakers? The honest answer […]
Read more "Growing the Pool of SQL Speakers – Part 3"Survey was announced in the Connector on Wednesday, reposting the link here. We need your thoughts on this! http://www.zoomerang.com/Survey/WEB22ADZ7NCK9A
Read more "What Sessions Do You Want for the PASS 2010 Summit?"I’m just back from the March 2010 Board meeting and it went better than usual (for any meeting). Most of arrived Sunday afternoon/evening and after a bit of social time I spent about four hours with Hannes, Craig, and Blythe working on SQLSaturday transition stuff (lots of details next week, but we’ve made good progress!) […]
Read more "PASS Update #27"I imagine most of us change our wallpaper on the desktop from time to time. Frivolous but fun, a simple way to personalize what is otherwise a not very exciting tool most of the time. Windows 7 does a nice job of taking that further with some really good themes – you can get a […]
Read more "Windows Themes (We need a PASS Theme!)"Most months we do a conference call, but a couple times a year we get to meet in person and it’s a much better experience for collaborating. For the first time since I joined the board we’re meeting on the east coast saving me some travel time and more importantly, avoiding the jet lag. We’ll […]
Read more "PASS Update #26 (Bylaws & Upcoming Board Meeting)"By now you’ve probably seen the official announcement from PASS about the Summit being located in Seattle for both 2011 and 2012, along with preliminary plans to host an event of some type on the East coast in the spring of 2011. There’s been a lot of good discussion on it, much of which you […]
Read more "PASS Update #25 (Summit Location and More)"We put this together last year and we’re up to 270 blogs listed, but I’m sure we’re still missing some, and some have changed names (including my own). If you’re a blogger, take a minute to check that we have the right information. And if you’re a blog reader (surely you are!), grab our OPML […]
Read more "Help Us Update the PASS Blog Directory"Time to update you again on all things PASS. First, I haven’t made a lot of progress on the speaker bureau. Rushabh supports the plan to build what we need and I’ve sent an outline to the Board for comment (one received so far), and I’m waiting on results of the survey that went out […]
Read more "PASS Update #24"My friend Jack posted a nice aggregate of comments so far about the transfer of SQLSaturday to PASS, and added his own thoughts – worth reading. http://wiseman-wiseguy.blogspot.com/2010/02/sqlsaturday-acquired-by-pass-reactions.html
Read more "More on SQLSaturday – From Jack Corbett"
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