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After finishing all my sessions with a bang, and nerf ball shot to the back of the head from Gabriella, my eyes opened wider and I started seeing clearly again. I don't need to run you through my day and all the session to express that the passion the business partners that speak have is only overcome by the amount of fun we have in getting together throughout the week at all times of day and late into the night. One other speaker/blogger/friend even apologized this evening if they came off too strong or argumentative sometime during the day while we were attending something or another (I don't even know what). I quickly pointed out that A - I had no clue what they were talking about and B - that is what we do since we all have agendas while here and thoughts on where Lotus should focus attention.
If we spent time arguing with another, nothing would get accomplished and Lotusphere would suffer. What other major, large scale conferences do you know that have deep technical sessions, allow you to directly interact with product developers, hunt down Lotus executives (via IdoCheckin I might add) and then party into the night like nothing happened to start over again tomorrow? None I say.
We are a rare breed here at Lotusphere that bleed much yellow while fighting to keep it as pure as possible and the coolest software you have used. I think the eye opener for me was what you are about to see at Lotusphere Idol from one of the winner's on Thursday. I got the chance to talk to them this evening. They actually wanted to meet and talk to me, but when I heard what they were doing, I wanted to hear more about them. Two college kids, sponsored by IBM in ticket only to be here, making some of the best plug-in work for Symphony I have seen/heard. Wait till you see their energy and what they are doing. Watching the new generation we are fighting to get by deploying corporate social software (whatever that is, a different posting) and learning they are working on our core products instead revitalizes some thoughts we had that Lotus was the 20 year old man in software.
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On Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 by Chris Miller
