Lotusphere2007 daily non-tech Review
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You can find my entire Lotusphere2007 picture set on Flickr now, or everyone that tags match Lotusphere2007 will be there. As usual, I still make a directory sideshow on Yahoo photos over here. I have 3 more podcasts to get out from Lotusphere for you. First up, a quick 2 person end of week review to get another attendee's take on how it went for them. Then the interview with the Technotics guys on DST. Finally, the bloggers press interview with Mike Rhodin that took place during the week.
So here is what I missed blogging about directly.
Lotusphere Day 4
Speed Geek - Let me start there. It was as you would expect from reading around the blogs. Ben L had a nice section on what everyone covered and I added my comment in. Everyone that attended received a nice open bar surprise and I provided some giveaways of my Sametime Gateway book. I did 3 presentations in 5 minutes for 12 times in just at an hour time. Whew! It was brain draining for us too. Ben L has two postings with a SpeedGeek review on his blog, so go have a look. I would definitely do this one again. Plus I managed to get a nice travel bag with tech toys, my favorite being this 4 port USB hub in a square..
All week the exhibitor floor was non-stop and I have to commend the sales team from Connectria for standing there fielding any wild issue all of you brought to them. I know I couldn't catch everyone that tried to stop by, but they did a great job of telling me who came and trying to tell you when I would be back.
Lotusphere Day 5
The blogger BOF at 7am left us with half the room of people that never slept, and a few not showered :-). Ed was the commentator and led a good discussion on some topics he brought. The task of bringing other ideas was actually acted upon by some of the bloggers. My point was the implementation of the social computing and Lotus Connections software into larger scale environments. We know how long it takes to groom your own profiles on personal sites, but getting workers to actually do that for something internal is a long fight. I liked the idea of some forced work and automated information updates being utilized in parallel.
I stopped in the labs for a few minutes to find most of the schedules full for the ones I wanted to participate in. That was a good sign that people wish to touch the new technology and it gives a wider variety of feedback to Mary Beth and the teams.
Next up was a stop at the Certification Lab to find the massage ladies were done yesterday and there was not much for good giveaways. A place to sneak in a drink and snacks always though. It was moved from the 7th floor of the Swan to the side Europe room in the Dolphin. No balcony, cool view or just a nicer place than a dark conference room.
Instead, I was asked to join a company conversation with Lotus on deployment of the Sametime Gateway. Thanks to all of you that bought a book while here, the first round sold out and some of the second with him. I even had some people asking me directly. Well the conversation turned into a larger scale architecture conversation and many solutions. I hope to talk to that group again shortly.
Gurupalooza was even better this 3rd year for me. The questions have settled in some and people are still hesitant to give that first one out. After the first person got up, we had a nice run of some good issues. LDAP, mass mailings and backup products were some I handled.
Ask the developers was the same as usual, but no big ranting this year. Some nice applause and it was good to see a few stumpers from the developer team. We did the live blogging of the closing session over at LotusphereLive once again and all the commentary on that is there.
Dinner was caught with Gabriella Davis, Andrew Pollack and the Turtle crew before saying a goodbye to everyone over in Kimonos. A relaxing evening to close out a sleepless week.
I will give a tech overview and more podcasts later on today.
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On Friday, January 26th, 2007 by Chris Miller
