RE: Update from Bourbon St, uh, COMMON.....

Don,

Any news on the iSeries Nation "Freedom Council"?  Like who's on the Council
and what came out of the inaugural meeting 5/15?  (When I saw it mentioned
on the website, I was hoping Neil and/or Chuck made it on the Council.  I
also hope it's not just for show.)

I looked on the iNation homepage for info, but didn't see any.  But at least
they got rid of the cheesy icons.

J. Toran


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From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Don
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 10:51 AM
To: midrange-l@midrange.com
Subject: Update from Bourbon St, uh, COMMON.....



Greetings,

well, it's Thursday morning and there's alot of butts dragging around the
conference.

Between the combination of early morning meetings (7 a.m.local OY!) and
late nite "technical discussion sessions" and cheering at Cats, this has
been a very full week.

Predominately all the classes and labs are within easy walking distance.
Closest they've been to each other in some time...my tired toes are rather
happy.

Although the dates were changed, the facilities have been really nice and
there's no such thing as having to walk 1/2 way around the Dome to get to
your next session...major save on the toes.

IBM caught their traditional earfull at Soundoff:  Where's the marketing,
v5r1 beta bugs, and a few of the usual gripes.  Buell Duncan was refered
to the iSeries config manuals to understand that contrary to his CBNC .COM
statements, there's ALOT more to a iSeries box than being a NT and eunochs
server....:)  The array of IBM'ers up on the gallows row for soundoff was
decent.  It was good to see sectional management and authority present to
either field or "take back" items.

Malcolm's new "film" was debuted and recieved positive response.

Biggest complaint: not enough time to be in multiple venues.

MOM actually didn't have much in the bitching department at all.  Was a
rather positive and short meeting, albeit with lower attendance...perhaps
no news is good news.

Labs were finding a few bugs on some of the newer code...

Several nice t-shirts.  The Common and iSeries Nation shirts were really
decent...


It's been fun watching the zanies drag in after a early morning of
chearing session at The Cat's Meow....:)


...now to drink some more coffee and play a bit more with apache....

Don in DC...in a apache lab on too little sleep.....

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