Re: Short survey

Don,

With all your noise about these user groups and events, what is your
recent personal experience with any of them?

Have you been to COMMON's Annual conference recently? Have you been to
COMMON's Fall conference recently? Have you attended any COMMON webinars?
Have you attended Summit, NEUGC, WMCPA, OMNI, OCEAN, IBM's Technical
conference? Any others?

From your own recent experience, what can you say about each of these?

What do they offer in 2013 that would entice a developer to attend? How
does that compare to ten years ago? Twenty?

Or, are you just blowing negative smoke again? From my recollection of
having attended and spoken at many of these - recently, I have not seen
you there - not for years. Because it sounds like you are just complaining
and wishing for old times. And, throwing out names to show how many you
know.

Have you got something of value to add?
Trevor



On 9/10/13 10:23 PM, "Don" <dr2@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Joe,

Add to the list the New England corsortium's conference as well in
Framingham...always a great conference...

Since I'm not as active with LUGs as I used to be I actually have to stop
and think about all these conferences...frankly, I have no clue just who
IS
in charge of LUG liasons from COMMON...clearly they're not doing as good a
job as people did back in the earlier days of the LUG committee... :)

Yeah, I'm a little biased... :)



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 4:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Short survey

Second Don's note about WMCPA - absolutely the best bang for the buck in
the
Midwest. I haven't been there in years, but Jim Buck does a bang-up job
there. Also in the Chicagoland area don't forget the OMNI Technical
Conference (which just happens to be next Tuesday!). Again, I haven't
been
in forever but they always have great speakers.

Hmm... I sense a trend... great conferences that I don't speak at... ;)

Joe

Larry

Sorry, I forgot to also include Jon/Susan's Summit conference for
developers as well....

Sorry Jon...been up to my keester in B/I and data analytics for the
last year...and just got in... Getting old sucks... :)

DR2

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 10:12 PM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Short survey

Larry,

You may want to double check the actual schedule of this conference.
HISTORICALLY it's had little to nothing for developers, especially
developers on the "I" environment...it's been, historically, heavy
AIX, linux, hardware, hardware and hardware.... If you want anything
for developers and systems admin folks, you need to be sending them to
the main COMMON conference...or to the OCEAN conference....or the TUG
conference....or the Wisconsin group conference....



-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ketzes, Larry
Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 3:47 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Short survey

My company is sending a bunch of us to the IBM Tech Conference in
Florida next month. I usually prefer Common and go there, but it will
be nice to check out the IBM conference for the first time in a while.
Anyone else going to the IBM Conference?

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Monday, September 09, 2013 3:42 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Short survey

I may go the spring conference...oh...Orlando. Maybe the next spring
conference. Whoops...Anaheim. Maybe Indy. I could get a steak and
shrimp cocktail at St. Elmo's.




On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Mike Cunningham
<mike.cunningham@xxxxxxx>wrote:

Who's at COMMON.
Who's not.
If not, why not.

I was able to send someone for the first time in 3 years and he
reported back that attendance was not want it once was.

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