Volunteer Strategy for SQLSaturday Orlando

I’ve been busy with other stuff lately and haven’t been able to put much time into this yet, but capturing a few thoughts from the past couple weeks: I want to ask everyone else on the event team for their volunteer needs. Get them thinking of where volunteers can help. Then I need a bunch […]

Still More Notes on the SQLSaturday Web Site–Registration

I’ll start by saying the intent of the notes isn’t to complain, at least too much. I’m looking for opportunities. It looks far nicer than v1/v2, but the functionality shown still tends to be a page per table/entity. I look at the app and think we could easily do 2x as much to engage potential […]

More Notes on the Updated SQLSaturday Web Site

A few things I had sitting in my draft folder: Privacy policy has not updated since May 2009. I’d like to see it updated and make sure it clearly addresses raffle tickets/sharing with sponsors, connection to the local group. I’d like to see SSL everywhere. No reason to not do this Reserving a date for […]

Come Speak at SQLSaturday Orlando on October 10, 2015

It’s five months until SQLSaturday Orlando, have you thought about your speaking plans for October? We’d love to have you come talk to our attendees! We have 50+ slots we need to fill and we try to build a schedule with a wide assortment of topics and skill levels. Here are my unofficial (because I don’t […]

Notes From SQLSaturday Jacksonville #391

Beautiful weather for a SQLSaturday! Everything went well, as expected but always appreciated. Just a few notes on this one: They had one person dedicated to the donuts/coffee area, cleaning up empty boxes and helping point out which boxes had what kind. Nice service. Might be interesting to label the boxes to reduce the open/look/go […]

Notes on the Updated SQLSaturday Web Site

I’m looking over the new SQLSaturday site as a consumer for the first time, seeing a few things: I don’t see a place to find the preferred hotel? I found that useful in the past. I really, really wish seminar registration had been baked in. It’s still ad hoc. Seems like this should be top […]

Headed to Jacksonville for SQLSaturday

I’m actually half way there as I write this, stopped to stretch and get something to drink, start thinking about what I want to think about during the event. What’s to think about? Here’s my list so far: Remember to meet 3 new people. Easy to forget to do this. Starting at the speaker party […]

Thinking Ahead to SQLSaturday Orlando 2016-Tenth Anniversary

I’ve been talking to Team Orlando recently about following the great example set by Code Camp Orlando for celebrating 10 annual events. Our first was in 2007. That is an impressive run. We’ve been lucky to be able to transition leadership of the event many times, from me to Jack Corbett to Karla Landrum to […]

#9 is Alive!

That’s #9 as in ninth annual SQLSaturday Orlando, being held October 10th, 2015 at Seminole State College, and which is the 442nd event chartered since we started things back in 2007. I’m heading up volunteers this year and will write more on that soon, but I definitely hope to engage many of our local members […]

Thoughts On The SQLSaturday Upgrade & Security Issue

Last week PASS deployed an update to the SQLSaturday web site and then had to take the site down for almost four days to fix security issues. You can read about the features and the issues in these posts from PASS: SQLSaturday Site Redesign: Better than Ever SQLSaturday Website Update SQLSaturday Website Update Timeline I […]