Is any one else going to San Francisco's U2 University. I'll be there.
When you have a change to take a business trip to San Francisco you should
talk advantage of it. It is the last conference so I hope it doesn't get
cancelled.
Tom Dodds
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Subject: RE: [U2] Is U2 University worth going to? YES!
I'm planning to attend the San Francisco edition, late November.
I was at IBM's huge conference last year and we (U2) just got lost in
the mix. This is a much better format.
I suppose if you have AIX and U2 and Tivoli, last year's CAAOC
(Conglomerated Association of Affiliated Organizations Conference) was
ok, because you could talk about all three in one place, but I only met
a few other u2 users when milling about. I think users of non-U2 IBM
products had the same frustration.
I think IBM ended up limiting the number of U2-related breakout sessions
too. We could have used more.
And it was expensive. I'm guessing half the attendees were IBM
employees. Maybe we had to pay for them.
What did we get for that extra grand, pooling our education dollars with
the disparate dollars of diverse disciplines whose only commonality was
the vendor? (a) A roped off section of Disneyland for an evening with
music so loud that my ears rang I couldn't network anyway, even when I
could find some fellow u2-ists in the crowd; and (b) Gladys Knight and
the Pips. Big whoop. (Tho I like Susan Joslyn's suggestion of Bono
U2.)
I'm looking forward to this year's conference.
See you in SF,
Chuck Stevenson
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