I hear that registration is over 350 so far, with seats still available – but register soon! I’m driving up with the family on Friday the 7th, looking forward to a great event and some family time too. Register at http://www.sqlsaturday.com/38/register.aspx.
Read more "Reminder – SQLSaturday #38 in Jacksonville on May 8th, 2010"SQLSaturday #38 is coming up on May 8th, 2010, back at the same location as in previous years at the University of North Florida campus. The schedule was just published, 36 one hour sessions across 6 tracks – looks good! I’m presenting one session this time, hope to see you there!
Read more "Schedule Published for SQLSaturday #38 in Jacksonville"Just set up SQLSaturday #47 in Phoenix for July 17, 2010 at Devry. Call for speakers is open, good to see some events happening out west!
Read more "SQLSaturday #47 Coming to Phoenix!"SQLSaturday #46 will be held in Raleigh, NC on September 18, 2010, under the direction of Brett Tomson and team – go Brett! Call for speakers is open.
Read more "Announcing SQLSaturday #46 in Raleigh"Sanj Gandham from PASS HQ set up a basic template for SQLSaturday presentations, you can download it from here. Our plan is to post a link to it on the session submission page, and then leave it up to each event leader as to whether they’ll use this template or a different one. If you’ve […]
Read more "SQLSaturday PowerPoint Template – Looking for Suggestions"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"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"I’ve long admired the value that I get from Wikipedia and like the concept of crowd sourcing knowledge, just never seemed to get around to setting one up. Finally decided to do it as a way to accelerate the SQLSaturday documentation, and I’ve set it up at http://wiki.sqlsaturday.com. I looked at a few options. I […]
Read more "Building a Wiki"I arrived about 7:15 and already quite a few people on hand. Registration was moved to inside this time, just inside the cafeteria, and seemed like a much better traffic flow. Few things I noted on arrival: Attendees didn’t receive name badges (this really helps speakers & networking) Breakfast set up looked good, no decaf […]
Read more "Notes from the Orlando Code Camp March 2010"
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