On 8/3/2014 6:34 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
2002 myself and a couple of mates from Aus turned up for our first Share in 'Frisco. Bowled into the ballroom and didn't know a soul. I said to the boys "I bet we know (through this list) half the people here". So I went over to the JES3 table expecting to be able to find Ed Jaffe (yes, *that* Ed Jaffe). Nobody there could speak JES3 (nor I as it happens) - the guys who had usurped the otherwise empty table were a bunch of CICS bods from Hersley. I can't spell CICS, but we got along well enough to have a beer or two. As time passed I found Ed and a bunch of other interesting companions.
I remember, it was so cold that summer in San Francisco we were all "freezing," with exactly the wrong type of clothes, and quoting Mark Twain.
I further remember you and I and a bunch of other "blokes" went to eat at the restaurant made famous by the Maltese Falcon (starring Humphrey Bogart). You ordered your steak cooked "blue," which they didn't understand. Haha! Americans don't roll that way... :)
It is what you make of it.
Agreed. I've felt welcome at SHARE since "Day 1" and have always tried to extend the same welcoming attitude towards others. I met a lot of great new people last week at SHARE in Pittsburgh; lots of new faces (those I remember even if I forget the names); lots of new hands to shake. System z is a great community and I'm glad to be part of it!
This is not the first thread on IBM-MAIN that alleged an "old boy" or "exclusive" club attitude exists at SHARE. Perhaps it does in some corners, but I've been attending since the early 1990s .. volunteering since 1998 .. and have yet to experience it first hand. IJS...
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