One of Janet Oswald's email ad broadcasts for U2U indicated that there
would be pre-conference chargeable tutorials the day before each of
the 4 editions of the conference. The list of tutorials and their
charges are not yet on the web-site, but she tells me they should be
there tomorrow. These tutorials have been worthwhile in years past.
I'm holding off on registering for San Diego until I can see those.
I think the regional conference idea is a good one. I attended the San
Francisco one 2 prior pan-IBM ones, as well as others off and on
dating back to Infocus/VMark days.
Pluses:
+ Cheaper.
+ Shorter. 2 nights lodging only.
+ More targeted. (That 2006 Anaheim Information on Demand event for
all IBM software users was ghastly. Sure, we got to see Gladys Knight
and the Pips and got in free one night to part of Disneyland where the
music blared that you couldn't network (the primary purpose for the
social events), provided you could even find any fellow U2 users amid
the AIX, Tivoli, DB2, etc. users, almost half of whom seemed to be IBM
employees.)
+ If you attend the later venues, the presenters have honed their show a
bit.
+ The audience seemed a bit more technical last year. I'm guessing the
lower price shorter time span allowed companies to send technical
people other than the mucky-mucks who see these conferences like
junkets.
+ More content, less junket.
Minuses:
- You don't see some users from other parts of the world. I miss that.
- Almost all sessions are presented by IBM staff, since not many
independent presenters want to commit to 4 such events. I have always
appreciated the presentations by users independent consultant groups,
myself, so I miss that.
- More content, less junket. (Some people will see that as a minus,
anyway.)
cds
P.S. Pardon me if some of this has already been discussed. I've been
unsubscribed for a month long vacation.
-Original Message-
From: Louie Bergsagel
Ah, found the U2 University session abstracts:
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/u2/university/index3.jsp
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