Relocating to Lotusphere
by Volker Weber
We are wrapping up in Holmes Beach and leave the beach house tomorrow. No more sunsets. :-) However, after we moved to the Lotusphere site at the Dolphin & Swan, the frequency of posting on vowe.net won't go up for another week. I will be busy talking to other people, sucking up all the new stuff and also writing for heise online. My reporting probably will be a bit less excited than what you will be hearing from the Domino bloggers, so you might want to look there for all the good stuff.
I am not publishing my schedule like Ed did, but it is very similar. Just replace the BDD stuff with jumpstarts, schedule a completely different Tuesday evening and you almost got it. It currently looks like every night is double booked so I will probably have a good sleep on the plane home although we are booked in monkey class.
Post your whereabouts to the Lotusphere Wiki. Check this page, if you want to have your Thawte ID signed. Rocky is setting up a date and time for a signing party.
In less than a day, I shall be in The Zone. If you see me, say hi.
Comments
URGENT Action Needed THIS WEEK to Protect Lotusphere 2006!
By now, it should be painfully obvious to everyone that the weather gods have a BIG problem with Lotusphere.
This is not the first time that horrible storms have interfered with staff, customers, Business Partners, analysts, the press, friends, Romans, and countrymen getting there. (Maybe we all should have acted even more humanitarily in response to the Tsunami.)
Clearly, urgent action is needed THIS WEEK -- before the end of Lotusphere 2005 -- to make amends and protect all future Lotuspheres!
I propose a four point plan (one for each day of Lotusphere):
1. Opening General Session -- Monday, January 24, 2005
Either Ambuj Goyal or the host of the Opening General Session -- whomever is the first to speak -- must ask everyone in the ballroom to refrain from any and all complaints about the weather for the entirety of Lotusphere 2005 -- that is, from that moment until the last paying attendee leaves the ballroom at the end of the Closing General Session.
2. Innovators Panel -- Tuesday, January 25, 2005
The panel member with the earliest hire date (preferably at Iris Associates, but Lotus is acceptable), on behalf of every developer who ever worked on Notes/Domino code, must apologize for every single SPR that was opened in response to a customer support call.
At his or her discretion, the panel member may choose to apologize for every single Lotus SPR ever written -- including those written by the developers and QA/QE teams themselves. Including IBM Workplace would be a good idea, too!
3. Lotusphere 2005 Party -- Wednesday, January 26, 2005
The Turtle (http://www.gonzolotusphere.com/gonzo/ls2005.nsf?Open) must be the guest of honor at the sacrifice of a small animal. (Preferably not a turtle. Or a Disney character. Maybe one of those plastic lobsters from a few years back?)
I hereby charge the C.U.L.T. guys --
Henry Newberry (http://www.cultshirt.com/newbs/cultshirt2.nsf/PagesByNumber/10?opendocument)
Rocky Oliver (http://www.lotusgeek.com/)
Andrew Pollack (http://www.thenorth.com/apblog4.nsf?Open)
-- and anyone they deem appropriate, with the tasks of creating the ceremony, choosing the precise time and place, and performing the ceremony.
4. Closing General Session -- Thursday, January 27, 2005
Sandra Marcus must ask everyone in the ballroom to observe a moment of silence -- prayer optional -- begging forgiveness on behalf of everyone who has ever been involved in any way with Lotusphere, Lotus Week, or any other conference, trade show, symposium, or Web seminar where Lotus products were shown or talked about for any weather-related inconveniences they ever experienced.
Respectfully submitted,
Marshall Wilensky
Now, this chap surely has to win the prize for being the most excitable: far more so than any Domino bloggers ;o) I think he’s spammed every vaguely-related Lotusphere site around today.
Oops. To be frank, I didn't check with other 'sphere related sites so I didn't know about the spamming. As I found the comment not too much out of place it passed my examination. Actually, I'm still not sure whether to let it stay or to remove it. But I'm quite sure that this will be taken care of one way or another ;-)
Well, so far he’s done edbrill.com, lotusgeek.com, benpoole.com, nsftools.com, pmooney.net, the LS05 wiki, Richard Schwartz’s site, notesgirl.com, the Gonzo Lotusphere page, and no doubt many others.
A busy guy ;o)
The comment may be a bit long and strange, but I feel OK with it. The IBM employee directory lists him as being located in Westford (TAFKA Iris), so I think we are going to leave it as is: :-)
Marshall Wilensky
Email: xxxxxxxx_xxxxxxx@us.ibm.com
Telephone: 1-978-xxx-xxxx
Location: Westford, USA
