By the way, Eric, you can reduce your registration costs but doing a presentation at SHARE. Each day you do one, you get to attend that day for free. Granted, it doesn't help with travel and hotel, but it is something. Marna Walle's sessions are always good. I usually have her last migration sessions sitting on my shelf. But she is one of the folks who puts here sessions on the website.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Bielefeld Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 SYSN 09:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SHARE & no handouts(?) I too would like to weigh in on this subject. I would much prefer having the handout to look at and take notes on while I'm in a session. I haven't been to Share for 3 or 4 years now. Mostly because the last 2 years at P&H they were closing the datacenter, and didn't want to pay for any education. I can't quite see paying several thousand dollars when I'm unemployed to go to Share, as you never know how soon a job will come around. Before I got my job at Aviva, I went almost 9 months. Boy - does that eat in to savings. Anyway, back to the topic. One suggestion I have is that all handouts are printed on both sides. Depending on the level of detail, 2 or 4 frames or more per page greatly cuts down on the amount of paper also. I know some of the handouts, like the ones from Marne Wall are especially appreciated. She puts much of the text and other pertinent info on each slide. That is very valuable. Thanks Marne, and keep it up! Regarding laptops at Share, the last year I went I took my laptop along. I think I took it to sessions 2 or 3 of the 5 days. I found it to be a real pain. Mine is fairly heavy - especially when you have it at the expo. I saved money for P&H by rooming 3 or 4 blocks away, making it hard to just put it in to my room. Also, then you have to look for a plug in, which isn't always very easy to find. I do remember one session on RMF reports, where I logged on to P&H's computer, and looked at some of my own reports as the presenter was talking about them. That was cool, and helpful. Taking notes on paper is fine, but it works a lot better taking them on the handout I sincerely hope that most presenters will continue to provide handouts. I think for the money, they provide a huge value. I wonder which is cheaper - printing them on your home office copier and shipping them, or printing them at Kinkos. I'm sure the hotel or convention center copy prices are ridiculous! -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Aviva USA Des Moines, Iowa 515-645-5153 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
