With SQLSaturday #49 we tried something I call micro-sponsors, charging $5 for a blogger to sponsor the event. It’s a way to do brand building and to contribute in a fun way. It’s not a huge amount of money, about $4.50 after the merchant fees, and I think for Orlando we netted $50$60. At least […]
Read more "SQLSaturday National Blog Sponsors"Bill Graziano posted our 2011 budget today. This runs from Jul 1, 2010, through Jun 30, 2011. I hope you’ll review it, and consider reading my thoughts on the budget process as well. It’s not easy reading. That’s not intentional, it’s just a lot of detail. Dig in, ask questions! If you look at the […]
Read more "PASS 2011 Budget Posted"Please take a few minutes to review the September 2010 minutes (login required). We just had our October meeting on October 14th, those minutes should be available by the end of next week at the latest. I know it’s not a thriller, but it’s worth five minutes to understand what we’re discussing each month.
Read more "Minutes of the September 2010 PASS Board Meeting Posted"Over the past few months I’ve been thinking that we don’t do enough to celebrate the people and the effort that goes into a SQLSaturday. From an attendee perspective it doesn’t look very complex (nor should it), but for an organizer it’s a massive amount of work, and it wouldn’t happen without a lot of […]
Read more "SQLSaturday #49–The Poster!"We’ve made great progress with SQLSaturday this year; reaching new cities, a successful handoff to PASS, and a lot of enthusiasm going into 2011. So where do we go next? PASS HQ was about to find meeting space for 100 people on Monday, Nov 8th, so that we can sit for two hours to discuss […]
Read more "SQLSaturday RoundTable at the PASS Summit"I had a question recently about how budgets work at PASS, and I think that’s something worth sharing, so I’m going to write an overview of that process today. Note that I’m not the Finance guy, so the “official” word gets published elsewhere, and for that reason I’m not quoting numbers, just talking about process […]
Read more "PASS Update #44 (Budget)"Last Friday saw the end of the 2010 PASS election and it was very nice to find out I had been re-elected, with Douglas McDowell (also re-elected) and Allen Kinsel being the other two winners. We had more than 1000 ballots cast, about twice what we had last year. Aside from the not minor pain […]
Read more "PASS Update #43"We’ll try to push this out through multiple channels, we’re trying to forecast dates to give those thinking about events (but not yet committed) visibility into which areas/dates are already committed. We won’t set up the event until you submit the formal event request, this is only to reserve the date. We’re also using this […]
Read more "SQLSaturday Event Leaders – Reserve Your Date for H1 2011"If you haven’t voted I hope you will. Ballots were sent out via email to those members eligible to vote. If you didn’t get a ballot, you can enter your email address at this link and if it’s listed as a valid voting member, it will send you a ballot. Send any questions to hq@sqlpass.org. […]
Read more "PASS Election Ends Tomorrow (Sep 15, 2010)"It’s back with a slightly different format this time, 28 hours of seminars delivered over two days, and it’s all free! Watch one, or watch them all, it’s a great collection of talent and I think you’ll find it worth your time. In particular I’ll be attending to watch a presentation on statistics by Kevin […]
Read more "24 (28) Hours of PASS on Sep 15, 2010"
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