First my appologies to everyone for taking this long to make things "official", then again I consider Doug Blair's reports official these days (even if at this point with a 26000 post backlog he may not read this until after Miami).
Several Important Items: The New Platinum Sponsor who has stepped up to the plate and agreed to fully sponsor the awards and the list until the end of 2008, renewal possible: Resource Management Solutions (www.rmsportal.com). Whilst they are essentially a resourcing firm, they seem to be coming out with an interesting new model to reward those that work through them. Stay tuned for their official sanctioned ad on the list (they get one a quarter, a footer mention on posts, their URL on the arslist.org and wwrug.org web sites) and I hope a A WARM Welcome please from the ARSlisters! So, Doug already gave you the Official Results of the Official Award Ceremony (which had what Phil Bautista dubbed the ITSM7 pack of Twinkies: they only came in three, not induvidually wrapped, heavier than usual and not easily modifiable). Doug Mueller explained the reason why we throw Twinkies, and I think Misi can explain why we don't eat them :-) An unusual move was the announcement of next year's UserWorld conferences, Mid-May in Lisbon for the European, and mid-October in Miami. Of course, unless I misswrote the dates, the Miami conference includes Our (Canada's) Thanksgiving Monday. All for now. And Bring on the new Developer Studio (whatever they want to call it)! The feature improvements are huge. Around 10 years ago or so I submitted a request, and many other since, for $NULL$ on the qualification bars. Now we can add it and whatever else we want ourselves. (I pity support that now has to wonder if errors have been created by us modifying the "Admin" tool). cheers ... Daniel _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: www.rmsportal.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"
