Natalie, I don't speak for anyone on the RUG committee, nor do I speak for future facing decisions, but I can tell you that last year they waived conf fees altogether for presenters, which is how I was finally able to swing my first ever national rug visit. I got my employer to pay my time as well as travel and lodging, I walked away with no cost for myself personally :)
-----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Stroud, Natalie K Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:46 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: WWRUG13 Date and Location Announcement Out of curiosity, Dave, can you give an estimate for about how much the conference fees would be reduced? Don't worry, I won't hold you to that exact number, I'm just looking for a ballpark estimate. Also, is there someplace the discount amount for presenters will eventually be published? I am not aware of any local RUG groups here in the Albuquerque area I could use in the way you did, but I've involved in a Toastmasters club here locally and for about the last 3.5 years and certainly feel confident enough to entertain the idea of presenting, though my TM family of course won't be able to speak to the technical accuracy of my talk. I just recently switched from a focus on testing to a focus on building Analytics reports and would consider maybe giving a talk on tips and tricks in Analytics, covering everything from what information do you include on the report to tricks you can do with the scheduler to "How do I get my report to do X" types of things. About half a dozen things come to mind just off of the top of my head, and I've only been at this for a couple of months. Natalie Stroud SAIC @ Sandia National Laboratories ARS-ITSM Tester Albuquerque, NM USA nkst...@sandia.gov ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 – Windows 2003 – SQL Server 2008 -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Shellman, David Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:22 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: WWRUG13 Date and Location Announcement To further lessen budget constraints, step out of your comfort zone and be a presenter. You still have to cover hotel costs and costs of getting there but conference fees are generally lessened. I did a presentation at RUG in San Francisco many years ago. To prep for the presentation, I gave it at WARUG a few months before. So there were several benefits, my conference costs were lower, a local User Group was able to hear the presentation, the presentation was well received at RUG and good for the company I work for. In addition I made a long lasting friendship with Misi and others. Now is a good time to start thinking about a topic and develop it. There will be announcement for presentation papers in the not too distant future. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Timothy Powell Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 1:05 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: WWRUG13 Date and Location Announcement And I for one want to thank you and the board for all the work you do. It can't be an easy job. So while the event may (or may not) be at the location of my choice, I didn't have to do the leg work to secure it and I'm just thankful that we have a place to go to meet, share and learn. As a general note: If you are constrained by **budget**, the flight (or general travel) cost is generally a cheaper expense and thus is the least of your concerns. If your business/edu/gov entity can't afford the flight, they almost certainly can't afford the lodging and conference fees. So at that point, it really doesn't matter where the event is..... Tim -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of arslist Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 11:28 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: WWRUG13 Date and Location Announcement Historically, going back to the first RUG in 1993, it has indeed always been east coast or west coast. In fact for the first 6 years at least (I think? Someone who has a list of them all can answer this) I think, were all in the Bay Area. Certainly 8 of the first 10. The only times it has been off the West coast were Disneyland (or DisneyWorld whichever is in Florida) and Washington DC. Next: As for votes we actually did something similar back in 2010 for choosing future cities, and asked attendees for suggestions. First we did a short list of suitable cities out of what the attendees suggested, then had votes on which work best, then we did the actual venue. Some of the factors considered (at least by me and the WWRUG Board): Availability of Venues (and the requirements are more restrictive than you might think and I can only plan a year ahead not four or five) Direct flights from as many locations as possible. How easy is it for BMC to send as many Remedy technical people as possible (one of the reasons for the return to San Jose) Weather - We try to pick somewhere that weather will affect us as little as possible. This can change based on when the conference is held, however, we decided to stick to a consistent timeframe unlike the RUGs of past. Why San Jose not Houston? A combination of a great experience at the Fairmont, a tie in the votes for the two cities, 6 months to get the conference together, better for Remedy technical people The Venues, flights, timezone same as California etc. was a huge factor when we scrambled to create the first WWRUG in 2009. Las Vegas for direct flights is as good as it gets. Please note that if WWRUG continues the plan is Chicago for 2014, I hope that counts as central. Happy to chat with folks at WWRUG13 about what goes into creating a conference; it makes a 1200 line project plan for an Enterprise ITSM system look easy/simple/straight forward. 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