I wanted to give a little background on the legal status of PASS. The Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) is an American corporation chartered in the state of Illinois. In America a corporation has to be chartered in a particular state. It has to abide by the laws of…
While you’re reading this, a post should be going up on the PASS blog [http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/PASSBlog.aspx] on the plans to change our bylaws. You should be able to find our old bylaws, our proposed bylaws and a red-lined version of the changes. We plan…
The ERC has released a draft (or strawman as I like to say) of how we might select the Nominating Committee for the PASS elections [http://erc.sqlpass.org/Forums/aft/30.aspx]. If you’d like to comment on this, now is the time.…
I’m starting my sixth year on the PASS Board. I served two years as the Program Director, two years as the Vice-President of Marketing and I’m starting my second year as the Executive Vice-President of Finance. There’s a pretty good chance that if PASS has done something…
HQ recently posted a brief update on our search for a location for 2013 [http://www.sqlpass.org/Community/PASSBlog/entryid/273/The-Debate-PASS-Summit-2013.aspx] . It includes links to posts by four Board members and two community members. I’d like to add my thoughts to the mix and ask you…
Every fiscal year PASS creates a detailed budget. This helps us set priorities and communicate to our members what we’re going to do in the upcoming year. You can review the current budget on the PASS Governance [http://www.sqlpass.org/AboutPASS/Governance.aspx] page. That page currently requires…
After the Summit we send out a survey to capture feedback. We ask a consistent set of questions so we get good year over year results. I’ve watched blog posts and email threads with ideas for a better Summit. I got to sit with Denny and crew again on…
This year the Summit registration opens at 6PM on Sunday at the Seattle convention center. Last year we had a dozen people hanging out, watching the twitter feed on the big monitor and catching up. All we really needed was a bar and we’d have our own little party…
If you’re a member of PASS you can view our FY2011 budget at http://www.sqlpass.org/AboutPASS/Governance.aspx. Our detailed budget is 29 pages long and provides an incredibly detailed snapshot of where our money comes from and how we spend it. I’ve also written a…
At the Summit this year we announced that the 2010 Summit would be in Seattle again. This will mark the third year in a row in Seattle. We’ve been in Seattle twice in a row before but never three times. After we complete the 2010 Summit in Seattle, half…