What day is it?
Thursday, 4:50 am - Dolphin Lobby, Walt Disney World Resort.
We're in the home stretch now. Only GURUPalooza to go, where I'll be taking the stage with all the other BP presenters for an hour of Q&A. I'd thought before that since I only did one presentation (did it twice, though) that I'd be able to phone it in. But John Head pointed out last night that he and I are the only ones on stage with hands-on experience with Notes 8 who are NOT under NDA for the conference. I'm not sure if that's completely accurate, but if it is, I suspect we're going to hog a lot of the conversation. Then again, we're both people that might well have done that anyway.
I could probably write for a month about all that's gone on here this week, and I still feel like I've barely scratched the surface. I didn't get to spend any time in the usability labs. I only walked through Meet the Developers twice. I'm pretty sure there were entire wings where I never had the chance to even go figure out what was there!
Response to our BP101 session has been overwhelming. I didn't want to admit how anxious I was about it, since there are so many people here who's opinions matter to me. We'd also made a big point of promoting it in the weeks leading up, so hopefully people felt like we delivered. I guess we'll see when the evals come in. But all the support we got from blogger & forum friends has been fantastic.
Meeting Chris Blatnick in person has also been great. He's obviously talented, but he's also fun, personable and generally a great guy to have at your side when the pressure's on. Hopefully we'll get more opportunity to work together in the future! *crosses fingers* I think there's some interest in us doing sessions at some of the other Lotus-oriented conferences, too.
I didn't get to go to many presentations myself. Obviously Worst Practices was a biggie. Ray Bilyk's Extreme Makeover presentation was a good selection of new stuff that people might have missed in Notes 6 & 7. Ed & Julian did a great job on their Selling Notes session, but perhaps I'm being generous 'cause they pimped our repeat session. John & Alan's OpenOffice.org presentation started a little slow, but picked up some great speed about the time I had to leave -- sorry I missed your big reveal! (Note: they provided line-by-line discussions on exact code, so it was incredibly useful information - please don't think I'm being critical of their show!)
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Posted by Russell Braswell At 01:06:00 PM On 01/25/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by John Bullinger At 11:22:56 PM On 01/26/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Dave Westcott At 09:02:25 PM On 01/27/2007 | - Website - |
Posted by Russell Braswell At 11:05:00 PM On 01/27/2007 | - Website - |
BTW, any chance of Lotus911 selling the 'Save the Client - Save the World' shirts (especially in XXL)?
Posted by Ray "The Lion King" Bilyk At 09:54:32 AM On 02/08/2007 | - Website - |