Re: COMMON Update... - the Porsche give-away?

Well, thats what it was then. I had my days mixed up
by that point. There were some BOFs that I had been
wanting to hit and figured I could squeeze them AND
the drawing AND the CUDs in

--- Trevor Perry <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jen,
> 
> The original events were scheduled like this:
> - Professional Development Roundup - 5:00pm-5:30pm
> - Professional Development Sessions - 5:30pm-6:30pm
> There were 4 PD sessions - remember the set of 4
> trading cards? If you 
> collected all 4, you could go to the roundup and
> pick up a ticket for your 
> choice of the 4 PD sessions. If you did not have a
> set, you could get a 
> random ticket to a PD session. This was a concept to
> foster some level of 
> community for the conference attendees. It was
> working to that point.
> 
> Other than a meeting of Canadian attendees (no idea
> why that time was 
> chosen) there were no other educational events
> scheduled for that time in 
> support of the PD night. There may have been BOFS
> scheduled, but they were 
> not until after the PD sessions - you still would
> have been able to make 
> those. Also, CUDS was going to be a major event
> starting at 7:00pm with 
> Domino 7 being announced and celebrated.
> 
> When it was discovered that the hospitality suite
> rented from COMMON was 
> going to be used for a $90,000 Porsche "raffle" at
> 6:00pm, there was a 
> request to change the "raffle" to a later time.
> However, that ended up 
> working like this:
> - Professional Development Roundup - cancelled
> - Professional Development Sessions - 5:15pm-6:15pm
> - "Raffle" - 6:15pm
> I was told the new times were because the vendor
> would not move their 
> drawing any more than 15 minutes.
> 
> In the end, it was apparent the vendor did not
> support the PD night, and did 
> not communicate to their captive audience that the
> PD sessions were still an 
> option. That event.. er, that scam, drew a large
> audience and meant that the 
> PD night was reduced to the non-drinkers, most of
> the smart attendees who 
> knew they would not win, a few deluded individuals
> who thought they could do 
> both, and the attendees ignorant of the scam event
> itself.
> 
> I do understand the draw of a $90,000 Porsche over
> COMMONs best PD speakers, 
> but it was ironic, and very very sad, that they
> missed out on the best 
> evening at COMMON for a scam. I have faith that
> COMMON will never repeat 
> this.
> 
> Trevor
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jen Raihala"
> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 10:37 PM
> Subject: Re: COMMON Update... - the Porsche
> give-away?
> 
> 
> >I was slightly irritated that:
> >
> > A) The drawing DID NOT start promptly at 6pm...a
> > Porsche commercial did.
> >
> > and
> >
> > B) The car was NOT given away.
> >
> > Had the drawing been promptly at 6, there still
> would
> > have been PLENTY of time for me to hit the 1 of
> the 2
> > sessions I had wanted to as they both started at
> 630.
> >
> >
> 
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