SQL Saturday #300 [http://www.sqlsaturday.com/300/eventhome.aspx] is coming up right here in Kansas City on September 13th, 2014. This is our fifth SQL Saturday which means it's the fifth anniversary of our now infamous BBQ Crawl. We get together on Friday afternoon before the…
PASS launched a Global Growth Initiative in the Summer of 2011 with the appointment of three international Board advisors. Since then we’ve thought and talked extensively about how we make PASS more relevant to our members outside the US and Canada. We’ve collected much of that discussion in…
Nihao!One of the largest changes PASS is going through is the the expansion outside the US and Canada. We’ve had international chapters and events in Europe since the early 2000’s. But nothing on the scale we’re seeing now. Since January 1st there have been 18 SQL…
The PASS Board recently decided that we wouldn’t put another US-based SQLRally on the calendar until we had a chance to review the program. I wanted to provide some of my thinking around this. Keep in mind that this is the opinion of one Board member. The Board committed…
At the Summit you’ll see PASS announce the total attendance and the “total registrations”. The total registrations is the sum of the conference attendees and the pre-conference registrations. A single person can be counted three times (conference plus two pre-cons) in the total registration count. When I was doing…
The last two years we’ve put the Board in front of the members and taken questions. We’re going to do that again this year. It will be in Room 307/308 from 12:15 to 1:30 on Friday. Yes, this time overlaps with the Birds of a…
Our budget situation is a little different this year than in years past. We were late getting an initial budget approved. There are a number of different reasons this occurred. We had different competing priorities and the budget got pushed down the list. And that’s completely my fault for…
Last year after the election, the PASS Board created an Election Review Committee [http://erc.sqlpass.org/]. This group was charged with reviewing our election procedures and making suggestions to improve the process. You can read about the formation of the group and review some of the intermediate work on…
Earlier this year we published preliminary fiscal year 2010 financials to the Governance page [http://www.sqlpass.org/AboutPASS/Governance.aspx] on the PASS web site. Please remember that FY10 runs from July 1st, 2009 through June 30th, 2010 and includes the November 2009 Summit. We do our fiscal year…
[https://billg.sqlteam.com/content/images/61288-pass2_2.jpg]Register by March 31st and save $200. On April 1st we increase the price. On July 1st we increase it again. We have regular price bumps all the way through to the Summit. You can save yourself $200 if you register…