Collaboration University recap - KC and London (and links)
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I see I have been a giant slacker as I wake up this bight and sunny Saturday morning. . Everyone has started to recap the events but me. Rob Novak, Carl Tyler, Mike Smith over at Turtle Partnership blog, and even Paul Mooney and Warren and Kitty Elsmore live blogged some of it! I am sure there is others I missed reading yet in the blogsphere.
Let us go back a couple weeks to the beginning (cue dream sequence music)
Kansas City was a blur with the speakers getting together on Sunday morning to work all day. We forced ourselves to finish the cd's and any editing. It was a long day of anticipation of the second year. We knew the alumni returning were looking for fresh and new material.
The first day went semi-smooth as our live video feed made it through Mike Rhodin fine and maxed out when Satwik went on for Quickr. A good trial experience. I will talk about the technology used in that later on. We appreciate Mike for coming to the event. The attendees gave good marks on his presentation where he personally did live demos. From there on we raced through a long day of sessions to have the first cocktail reception. The location this year was excellent and our same jazz musician returned from last year to play during the reception. I even bought a cd from him...
Day was the longest day. Due to comments from last year, we went from 3 tracks at a time to 2. This gave you a chance to see every Sametime or every Quickr session. It also made day 2 go from 8:00am to 6:45pm. Whew! They were glazed and hurting by the end of that day. I personally have both LDAP and Firewall/network sessions to give that day so I did my best to fill everyone's heads.
Day 3 only came after staying up all night to make sure the workshops were configured correctly. read on....
We had multiple servers to prepare, as well as the server information for them for the session Rob and I gave. The Quickr guys had their own self contained and Carl's session on Sametime development moved into the virtual world as he amazingly was able to schedule to do his online later so people could get to airports or go drinking. We are not sure which. All went on schedule and great. They left ours with an 11 server Portal/Sametime/Quickr environment all using LDAP.
London. I arrived a day early and early in the morning (yet customs took forever) to adjust and I was whisked away to a day in the office at the Turtle Partnership. Thanks to Gab, Tim, Mike and their crew for a wonderful day of falling asleep on their workbench before heading to the hotel to stay up into the evening anyway. Since the sessions were the same, I can recap the other parts. Ken Bisconti did an awesome opening job and the streaming went better while in London. Both were recorded so look for rebroadcasts. Dinners were always late in the night it seemed and getting to bed at any reasonable time was shot out the window. I had great food numerous nights and always a large group. I think there was around 14 people twice and then Gab, Tim and I snuck away from the drink event to have sushi...two nights.
In both cities the attendees were pleasant, willing to learn and always had their own unique issues to discuss. They do make us think to solve problems quite often.
In all even smoother than the Class of 2006, tons of new information and a pleasure to continue to be part of as a partner in the event. Some of the restaurants we went to in both cities were wonderful and maybe I will list those later. Right now I just finished breakfast, the day is beautifully sunny, I have some sightseeing to see and a special event tonight thanks to Gab and Tim and I need a bit more nap before heading out.
Special thanks to Warren and Kitty for all the a/v work while in London. Mooney on the other hand was responsible for beer :-)
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On Saturday, July 21st, 2007 by Chris Miller
