Re: ENGAGE / ENRAGE
Well said Claire. On 29 Jul 2014, at 06:02, Sanford, Claire claire.sanf...@memorialhermann.org wrote: ** My plan was to come on Sunday and leave on Saturday. I planned on attending the certification sessions. They are not even worth it! Dan, how can we give them the benefit of the doubt? They have had since 2009 to watch and learn how to do it from the Masters!! People that managed to hold down a full time job and do the conference! They even appear to have hired a company to do all the heavy lifting for them! I know you probably have to be supportive, the rest of us don’t. It is extremely disappointing. I talked this up to a co-worker who was also going to ask to attend this year. There is one CMDB session (maybe 2?). How can he justify the expense!? I was looking forward to this because it was sort of like “going home again”. The RUG that was held there before was so full of great memories and learning that I really wanted it to be good! Then again that conference had you, Rick Cook, Warren Baltimore, Pat Zandi, Kim Moody, Phil Bautista and a host of other really awesome people to learn from! The conversations were both entertaining and very educational! Remember the ARSLIST party in the Sushi Restaurant! Very well attended and lots of fun! “Look for the bright pink sign that says ARSLIST” The midnight raid of the vending machines, the trip 10 miles away to purchase beverages. I am starting to feel old! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of arslist Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 10:30 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ENGAGE ** They may be busy but I look at the sessions and still struggle to see any technical depth for the BMC Remedy area. It might be there but with the naming of sessions I can’t tell. That being said, and of course I am biased, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. After all, BMC hasn’t done a North American conference since 2007, so they are probably working hard to get it right. Everyone gave us the benefit of the doubt in 2009, or at least a couple of hundred of you did J As for Evening sessions, Evening with Engineering has been on their schedule since day one, unique and important and worth attending the conference just for it! For additional interesting networking, stay tuned, something will be worked out ….. How many are arriving Sunday (or before) or leaving after Thursday? I am giving up Canadian Thanksgiving Monday to be there, I need it to be worthwhile! Cheers … Dan From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: July 28, 2014 7:51 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ENGAGE ** I think they are busy planning the conference. Rick On Jul 28, 2014 4:48 PM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** Maybe we can try to get Goofy or Mickey Mouse to moderate On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:46 PM, laurent matheo lm...@me.com wrote: ** Yep, or a justin.tv (which has a chat). Could be doable :) On 29 Jul, 2014,at 01:42 AM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** Not if you do it from a hotel room though? I'll pitch in for a suite. We can set up a google hang out and a live tweet session. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, laurent matheo lm...@me.com wrote: ** Yeah I proposed this... Somekind of genius bar or something, maybe panel like, or small breakouts or something... Could have been setup like a mini community onsite using Matt for this... Maybe we could squat the booth location for this when it's not attended? If it's like wwrug, it's just opened for lunch / not a long time, we could use the place to do some small groups about a theme or something? So, a mix between the bird the feathers, genius bar, community and whatever? We could even stream it live on the net so the others could see it (that could be a problem with BMC rules though). On 29 Jul, 2014,at 01:36 AM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** I was willing to sponsor a technical/learning lab at the conference. Reached out to numerous people. Deaf ears. Oh well... I'm still going. Love networking (by networking I mean drinking) with you guys if you decide to go. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.com wrote: In browsing through the sessions and speakers, the title of unnamed speaker pretty much sums up my assessment of the catalog: Lead Technical Marketing Consultant On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:31 PM, laurent matheo lm...@me.com wrote: ** The evening is still there, Tuesday from 6 to 8 PM: http://www.eventmgmt.aimia.com/events/bmc-engage-2014/custom-20-2bc888d975f2496db5d3f819b9735209.aspx But that's weird... Since breakouts continue from 6 to 9 PM on tuesday... So or you go stalk the Engineers (and potentially miss 2 breakouts),
Re: ENGAGE / ENRAGE
My plan was to come on Sunday and leave on Saturday. I planned on attending the certification sessions. They are not even worth it! Dan, how can we give them the benefit of the doubt? They have had since 2009 to watch and learn how to do it from the Masters!! People that managed to hold down a full time job and do the conference! They even appear to have hired a company to do all the heavy lifting for them! I know you probably have to be supportive, the rest of us don’t. It is extremely disappointing. I talked this up to a co-worker who was also going to ask to attend this year. There is one CMDB session (maybe 2?). How can he justify the expense!? I was looking forward to this because it was sort of like “going home again”. The RUG that was held there before was so full of great memories and learning that I really wanted it to be good! Then again that conference had you, Rick Cook, Warren Baltimore, Pat Zandi, Kim Moody, Phil Bautista and a host of other really awesome people to learn from! The conversations were both entertaining and very educational! Remember the ARSLIST party in the Sushi Restaurant! Very well attended and lots of fun! “Look for the bright pink sign that says ARSLIST” The midnight raid of the vending machines, the trip 10 miles away to purchase beverages. I am starting to feel old! From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of arslist Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 10:30 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ENGAGE ** They may be busy but I look at the sessions and still struggle to see any technical depth for the BMC Remedy area. It might be there but with the naming of sessions I can’t tell. That being said, and of course I am biased, let’s give them the benefit of the doubt. After all, BMC hasn’t done a North American conference since 2007, so they are probably working hard to get it right. Everyone gave us the benefit of the doubt in 2009, or at least a couple of hundred of you did ☺ As for Evening sessions, Evening with Engineering has been on their schedule since day one, unique and important and worth attending the conference just for it! For additional interesting networking, stay tuned, something will be worked out ….. How many are arriving Sunday (or before) or leaving after Thursday? I am giving up Canadian Thanksgiving Monday to be there, I need it to be worthwhile! Cheers … Dan From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Rick Cook Sent: July 28, 2014 7:51 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORGmailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: ENGAGE ** I think they are busy planning the conference. Rick On Jul 28, 2014 4:48 PM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.commailto:taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** Maybe we can try to get Goofy or Mickey Mouse to moderate On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:46 PM, laurent matheo lm...@me.commailto:lm...@me.com wrote: ** Yep, or a justin.tvhttp://justin.tv (which has a chat). Could be doable :) On 29 Jul, 2014,at 01:42 AM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.commailto:taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** Not if you do it from a hotel room though? I'll pitch in for a suite. We can set up a google hang out and a live tweet session. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:40 PM, laurent matheo lm...@me.commailto:lm...@me.com wrote: ** Yeah I proposed this... Somekind of genius bar or something, maybe panel like, or small breakouts or something... Could have been setup like a mini community onsite using Matt for this... Maybe we could squat the booth location for this when it's not attended? If it's like wwrug, it's just opened for lunch / not a long time, we could use the place to do some small groups about a theme or something? So, a mix between the bird the feathers, genius bar, community and whatever? We could even stream it live on the net so the others could see it (that could be a problem with BMC rules though). On 29 Jul, 2014,at 01:36 AM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.commailto:taufc...@gmail.com wrote: ** I was willing to sponsor a technical/learning lab at the conference. Reached out to numerous people. Deaf ears. Oh well... I'm still going. Love networking (by networking I mean drinking) with you guys if you decide to go. On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Tauf Chowdhury taufc...@gmail.commailto:taufc...@gmail.com wrote: In browsing through the sessions and speakers, the title of unnamed speaker pretty much sums up my assessment of the catalog: Lead Technical Marketing Consultant On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:31 PM, laurent matheo lm...@me.commailto:lm...@me.com wrote: ** The evening is still there, Tuesday from 6 to 8 PM: http://www.eventmgmt.aimia.com/events/bmc-engage-2014/custom-20-2bc888d975f2496db5d3f819b9735209.aspx But that's weird... Since breakouts continue from 6 to 9 PM on tuesday... So or you go stalk the Engineers (and potentially miss 2 breakouts), or you attend the breakouts (and miss the candy)? On
