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Notes from the June 2008 oPASS Meeting

Our main presentation was on 'Unlocking the Power of SQL Compact' by Steve Lasker & Ginny Caughey. Went better than I expected (not that I doubted their presentation skills) because for most DBA's it's a little looked at/noticed area of the database world. They delivered a lot of...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 06-04-2008
Orlando Heroes Launch Event

I attended this on Friday along with fellow oPASS members Mike Antonovich and Ulysses Vasquez to represent PASS , and we were joined at the community table along with Shawn Weisfeld of The Orlando .Net Users Group and Ken Tucker of The Space Coast .Net Users Group . We saw a lot of people we already...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 04-27-2008
Getting Geeks (IT Pro's) To Talk at User Group Meetings

User groups have to be about more than technical content if you want to sustain them over the long term, and the best way to create that 'more' is to work on getting attendees to talk to each other. Here in Orlando we experiment with different ways of doing this and at our last meeting what we...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 02-14-2008
oPASS Meeting Notes

We had our final meeting of the year last night, minutes posted here . Pretty good turn out, 22 total. And given that we started the group back up in April with about 10 attendees, we're growing nicely. Highlight for me last night was getting more feedback from the group itself about SQLSaturday...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 12-19-2007
Managing Funds for User Groups

This question seems to come up a lot and it's worth discussing. Few user groups are incorporated, fewer still are true non-profits, so how you pay for pizza, charge sponsors, do the little things that need to be done without having a checking account? In my view unless you have a huge group incorporating...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 12-11-2007
How Much Pizza and Soda for a User Group Meeting (Why You Should RSVP)?

After a few meetings of oPASS this year the numbers I use are 2 slices of pizza and 2 drinks per person, plus about 10%. I order the large pizzas and get a mix of crusts and topping - remember to get vegetarian! In our case we also have one member who is allergic to onions so we make sure we have at...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 10-29-2007
Fewer Seats Make for Better User Group Meetings?

We had a visitor from another group at our recent www.opass.org meeting and it was interesting that one bit of feedback was because we had filled every seat the visitor felt it made for a better experience because people talked more to each other - due to sheer proximity, where at other meetings with...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 08-09-2007
User Groups, Geeks, and Puzzles

Last night we had one of bi-monthly meetings of oPASS (Orlando SQL Servers User Group) and we had a pretty good time, ranging from some nice raffle prizes to a good presenation on XML to our now standard puzzle event. There's nothing quite like a puzzle in any form to engage most of us in this business...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 08-08-2007
User Groups Moved to New Domain

We've just moved all the PASS chapters that were hosted on ~.ssc.com domains over to ~.sqlgroups.com. This is part of the final cleanup as we try to make sure we don't have anything left pointing at SSC. If you're the leader of one of these groups and are hosting elsewhere please let me know...

Posted to It Depends (Weblog) by Andy Warren on 07-27-2007

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