Admin2007 Wrap-up
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What a collection of speakers that received high marks everywhere. It was good to see everyone, attendees and speakers included. Paul Mooney has some pictures up on his blog already, I know Susan Bulloch and Kathleen McGivney will have some blog comments. We can always count on Wild Bill to take a stab after much late night and speaking recovery. Francie Whitlock, Warren Elsmore and a few others joined as new admin speakers this year. Mary Beth Raven walked everyone through the end of what will soon be a major step in the Lotus Notes direction with version 8. Julian R, of the famed Taking Notes Podcast was presenting in full developer style. Bruce, of course, was tethered by telephone and IM all week. I know I forgot some, I am brain dead however this early after the week is now done.
Andy and Rob of Technotics did a bang up job as always. All three of us joined together to do a BOF on Notes and Domino 8 upgrading. I went ahead and recorded it for a podcast that will be edited and online shortly
It was even rumored that Ed Brill himself stopped through for some socializing. Someone said Alan Lepofsky was coming for dinner the last night but I left early and you will notice it was after Ed left, hmmmm. A couple surprise appearances for some drinks and dinner from Carl Tyler and Rob McDonagh.
There was a comedy night sponsored by Blackberry on Tuesday which was a refreshing change and a break of all the information being shoved into the heads of attendees. You can see some pictures I have up showing that event.
Now as for attendees, one of the best overall positive responses I have gotten from all of them. There is always a minor thing here and there, but everyone went away happy. I took them from the first session of building a disaster recovery solution for their entire Lotus portfolio all the way through S/MIME, LDAP infrastructure and all sorts of Sametime aspects. Ten sessions later I walked out hoping I shoved enough into their brains to make their time worthwhile. The event was a strong showing of the commitment to Domino by IBM and the user community. Displays of current features of ND8, Quickr and Lotus Connections left more than a few re-energized in what exciting new paths they are about to take.
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On Thursday, June 7th, 2007 by Chris Miller
