Rob Bushway is doing an excellent poll and the responses are educational. If there are 1,000,000,00 tablet pcs out there, there is a potential for Rob’s comments to get a little long!!
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Daily Archives: August 25, 2005
42 potential BOF slots at PDC
The BOF sessions that are being organized by INETA at PDC will be set up like this:
In total, there will be 7 time slots spread out over a few nights for sessions. My guess is maybe 3 on one night and 4 on another, but I truly have no idea.
During each time slot there will be 6 rooms available.
Therefore, there will be a potential of 42 BOF sessions at PDC.
Right now I see 30 sessions on the PDC BOF site for voting. I know that there are at least two more that I just submitted, so there may be more submissions waiting in the wings for the BOF committee to deal with. But surely, there will be room for more.
Remember when coming up with a BOF idea that the purpose of a BOF is to be a discussion among all of the BOF attendees with one or a few people leading the discussion. It is not a presentation and there is no presentation equipment available (eg projector).
So go submit a proposal or vote. You can vote for up to 7 sessions, so if you want to vote for my Tablet PC or Going Solo sessions, you’ll have to wait until they are on the list.
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Conference/Vacation?
One of the problems of going to lots of conferences is that it eats into possible vacation time throughout the year. Last year, Kathleen Dollard and I took two days out when we went to Las Vegas for DevConnections to visit Zion National Park. This year, since I am going to speak at DevConnections again and it is in Las Vegas again (and not to be missed if you can make it!!!) I have convinced my hubby to come out at the end of the conference and he and I are going to head out to the desert for 5 days. It will be mid-November, but it is going to have to count as our summer vacation. That is going to be some awesome week. Las Vegas. DevConnections which also means staying at the awesome Mandalay Bay resort. The big VS2005/SQL Server 2005 launch party that is happening at DevConnections. And then to top it off, a vacation in a phenomenally beautiful place with my husband. That’s hard to beat. Although going to Sun City South Africa for TechEd with my dear friend Kate, and including a meetup in Frankfurt with our pal Christian Weyer during a 12 hour layover, will be pretty close!
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Are you going to PDC?
PDC is getting closer and you can feel the level of excitement in the blogosphere. Once again, the event has sold out. This always amazes me — that Microsoft could sell out events with over 10,000 attendees. This has been happening for PDC and TechEd for a few years now that I know of [read more…]
[A DevLife post]
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The developer, the project manager and the business unit veep – a conversation on product roll-out
Camey relays a conversation that may bring [un]fond memories to many developers… but go ahead, torture yourself anyway and read it.
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Go Vote for my PDC Birds of a Feather Sessions
I JUST submitted two BOF sessions, so I don’t know when they will show up on the list. Voting ends Monday, so go vote!
TabletPC: If you build it, will they come?
The TabletPC SDK has been around for a few years now and has some great innovations for developers to write really cool inkable applications. But where are our users? This BOF is a chance for Tablet PC Developers to get together to discuss their shared passion for this incredible technology and their shared frustrations with the slow growth of the Tablet PC market.
Going Solo
Have you ever thought of going independent? This session aims to bring together independent developers with those who have toyed with the idea to share advice, lessons learned and more.
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