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Here's something that has nothing to do with the US election, but we think deserves your attention today because it is absolutely awesome! Those of you who joined us at WWRUG12 will recall that Dan Bloom read a portion of our sponsor cont ract to you on Thursday morning. There's an intentionally obscure paragraph (Vendor Requirements, Clause 6, if you must know) that states that all of a vendor's badged staff must be present at the awards ceremony. Hey, what if they won an award an no one came, right? If they don't show up there are financial penalties (paid to the Special Olymipcs, one of the original Remedy Corporation's favorite causes) and "two ceremonial Twinkies tossed for each missing person." (We will for the moment disregard the fact that the Twinkies would have been tossed anyway. Yes, the Twinkie stuff is actually written into the contract. It's our conference, we can do that. Get over it.) To make a long story short, PMG did win an award (Innovator of the Year!), but not everybody from their booth was in the room! So, today the Special Olympics has received the BIG FAT CHECK pictured here! (This photo has been posted to the WWRUG section of BMC Communities and on our Facebook account too https://www.facebook.com/wwrug) We think this is a most awesome way of turning a negative into a positive, and we hope that NOBODY shows up at the awards ceremony next year! Not really. Seriously, on behalf of WWRUG and the Special Olympics, THANK YOU, PMG! WWRUG Advisory Board Doug -- Doug Blair +1 224-558-5462 200 North Arlington Heights Road Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004  ITILv3 |
