So, Tim mentioned last night that Oracle Mix had launched this year’s iteration of Suggest a Session.
There are big changes from last year’s inaugural run. First off, it’s no longer called Suggest a Session, but rather Vote for Sessions.
From the name, you can get an inkling of the biggest change, i.e. you won’t be suggesting [...]
Mark your calendars for June 16.
The Oracle OpenWorld Blog announced today that Suggest a Session will be back on that day for this year’s mega-conference (which will be October 11-15, 2009 at Moscone in San Francisco as usual).
If you recall, last year’s Suggest a Session for OpenWorld was a big hit. Confused?
Here’s a recap:
If you [...]
Did you catch the announcement yesterday that the OpenWorld 2009 Call for Papers is on like Donkey Kong?
The call lasts until April 19, and it sounds like the Suggest a Session program on Mix will be renewed in June. The OpenWorld blog offers some tips on proposal submission:
Give your paper a clear and concise title.
Create [...]
Now that the dust has fully settled on OpenWorld 2008, it’s probably time to start planning next year’s iteration.
Justin and I spoke recently with the people who manage the Blogger Program to debrief about the event, how the program was received and ways to improve it for next year.
If you read that sentence carefully, you [...]
With the memory of OpenWorld fading, I wanted to riff on one thing I noticed and found interesting last week.
Stickers, or rather the lack of them.
Rich and and I whipped up a last-minute plan to produce some stickers right before OpenWorld, and many of you were the beneficiaries last week. I added the AppsLab sticker [...]
So now OpenWorld 2008 is over, and San Franciscans rejoice as Howard Street reopens between 3rd and 4th, or at least it will soon.
I missed my Wednesday recap, since we spent Thursday sequestered in that same old conference room in Pleasanton. Not a lot happened for me on Wednesday.
Rich and I trolled the exhibit floors [...]
Tuesday was a lighter schedule for me, but not without its drama.
My geek-speak Unconference session, which continues to bounce around Indian blogs, was at 10 AM, and I arrived in the room 40 minutes in advance, JIC. Good thing because I had forgotten the Mini DVI-VGA adapter for my Macbook.
For those who haven’t run into [...]
As is typical for me, the Monday of OpenWorld was the busiest. Now that it’s over, I can relax a bit. Yesterday was an action-packed day, so let’s hit the highlights. Roll the tape.
Our official session “Web 2.0 Technologies In the Enterprise: Lessons Learned, Tips, and Tricks from Oracle AppsLab” went pretty well. I’m not [...]
Rather than blog the events of an entire day, I’ve decided to dump my thoughts periodically.
This is more effective for me anyway, since to remember anything lately, I feel like I need to forget something else. So, a memory dump will happen eventually, better (or worse, depending) to get it recorded before the inevitable happens.
Here [...]
To avoid overlapping with Larry’s keynote on Wednesday afternoon, as promised, I have rescheduled my Unconference session, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!” to Tuesday morning at 10 AM in Moscone West, 3rd floor, Overlook C.
If you’re interested, check out the slides on SlideShare.
If you make it, stop by and say hello.
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On my way to PDX, I caught this tweet from the OCP Advisor (aka Mohan Dutt):
Naturally intrigued, I clicked through on the link to find an “idea” from Debra Lilley called simply:
Get me out of this lift, please , stuck in lift #11 at the Marriott
Eagle-eyed users of Mix, namely John Bedford, an Oracle employee, [...]
By this time tomorrow, I’ll be winging my way to the Bay Area for OpenWorld.
One of the first things I need to do tomorrow is race to the Unconference onsite signups in Moscone West and move my Essential Geek-Speak session to a better time, like say one that doesn’t overlap with Larry’s keynote.
You may recall [...]
So, yet another last-minute OpenWorld announcement, but that’s how we roll. We’re going to host an informal hackathon at the OTN Lounge during the conference.
The OTN Lounge will be in Moscone West, Third Floor, coincidentally right near the Unconference sessions, which should work out well.
So, we’re calling it informal because Rich, Anthony and I will [...]
Justin teased this earlier in the month, and today, Oracle Listens took over oracle.com.
I’m glad they overcame the hiccups that initially postponed its launch, and I’m nervously waiting for a flood of email to hit our support distribution list.
If you read here, you’ll remember that we’ve shifted our focus to Connect, our internal social platform [...]
A few weeks ago, I huddled with Matt and Eddie to chat about how we could do some whizzy-social-2.0 stuff for OpenWorld this year.
The outcome was a lot of “this would be cool” and “just don’t have the time”. Well, Matt made some time anyway, and he’s soft-released Collok.com to help you manage your OpenWorld [...]
Inspired by Eddie, who blogged his schedule for next week, and others, I decided to wade into the OpenWorld show guide to set up my week.
I had planned to use the Schedule Builder, but I guess that’s not for employees. So, I started combing the Content Catalog and soon got a headache trying to read [...]
Late last week, we decided to do another session at the Unconference next week. Egad, is it that soon?
If you read here, you know we’ve been plugging away with OpenSocial for several months. Since we’re not a product, we’ve been able to do all our work on the Connect+OpenSocial project in the open. So, we [...]
So, I just finished my first cut at my slides for my OpenWorld Unconference session, which I’m tentatively calling, “Are you insulting me? Essential geek-speak, FTW!”.
If you’re interested, check them out and give me feedback, comments, keeping in mind my goal is to educate by example, not give a comprehensive history. And to have a [...]
The Unconference at OpenWorld continues to fill up; Tuesdays advance slot are all full, and Wednesday is quickly filling up too.
I noticed Raimonds added a session last week called “Using Ruby on Rails with legacy Oracle databases” on Thursday at 10 AM. If you’re still at the conference on Thursday, I highly recommend checking out [...]
I took a look at the Unconference schedule yesterday, apropos of Ontario Emperor’s post on his own foray into Unconference territory.
Have you looked lately?
There are a lot of interesting sessions. These stuck out for me:
Monday at 1 PM: Enterprise 2.0: What is is, and how you’ll fail. (by Brian “Bex” Huff)
Tuesday at 2 PM: How [...]
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