I started a poll today on the naming for future SQL Saturdays. You can answer here: https://twitter.com/way0utwest/status/1380524526455390209
The current votes (51 votes) look like this:
That’s interesting, as I was going to restart at 1020. 1019 (Singapore) was the highest number of an event that took place. I also had a suggestion to start at 2001, as a way of showing the SQL Saturday 2.0, though this is really a 4.0 in how the brand/franchise has evolved.
A couple interesting suggestions from people are:
- SQL Saturday <city>
- SQL Saturday <city> <year>
- SQL Saturday <location> <year> <season if needed>
One of the things I am thinking about is multiple events in a city each year. While this might not be the norm, or even sustainable every year, we have had this happen. Denver and Atlanta have had two events, though one was named the “BI Edition”.
PASS had rules against multiple events, and many organizers might not want to do this, but some may. We want to accommodate, not dictate, the different choices that groups or locations might choose to make.
Regression Testing
What if we regression test a few of these ideas and see what this might have looked like in the past. I selected a few events from the past, just to see what this might look like:
- SQLSaturday #734 – Dallas
- SQLSaturday #733 – Atlanta
- SQLSaturday #647 – Boston – BI Edition
- SQLSaturday #673 – Denver
- SQLSaturday #665 – Bucuresti
- SQLSaturday #637 – Cape Town
- SQLSaturday #632 – Cambridge
- SQLSaturday #652 – Atlanta
- SQLSaturday #583 – Lisbon
- SQLSaturday #603 – Dallas – BI Edition
- SQLSaturday #596 – Denver – BI Edition
- SQLSaturday #585 – Boston
What if we went with just the city and year. We’ve have:
- SQLSaturday Dallas 2018
- SQLSaturday Atlanta 2018
- SQLSaturday Boston – BI Edition 2017
- SQLSaturday Denver 2017
- SQLSaturday Bucuresti 2017
- SQLSaturday Cape Town 2017
- SQLSaturday Cambridge 2017
- SQLSaturday Atlanta 2017
- SQLSaturday Lisbon 2017
- SQLSaturday Dallas – BI Edition 2017
- SQLSaturday Denver – BI Edition 2017
- SQLSaturday Boston 2017
If we added some season, and removed the “BI Edition”, we could have:
- SQLSaturday Dallas 2018
- SQLSaturday Atlanta
2018
- SQLSaturday Boston Fall 2018
- SQLSaturday Denver 2017
- SQLSaturday Bucuresti 2017
- SQLSaturday Cape Town 2017
- SQLSaturday Cambridge 2017
- SQLSaturday Atlanta 2017
- SQLSaturday Lisbon 2017
- SQLSaturday Dallas Winter 2017
- SQLSaturday Denver Winter 2017
- SQLSaturday Boston 2017
Or perhaps:
- SQLSaturday Dallas May 2018
- SQLSaturday Atlanta May 2018
- SQLSaturday Boston Sep 2018
- SQLSaturday Denver Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Bucuresti Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Cape Town Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Cambridge Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Atlanta Jul 2017
- SQLSaturday Lisbon Mar 2017
- SQLSaturday Dallas Mar 2017
- SQLSaturday Denver Feb 2017
- SQLSaturday Boston Feb 2017
Or with Editions (added a few fake ones)
- SQLSaturday Dallas May 2018
- SQLSaturday Atlanta
May 2018
BI Edition - SQLSaturday Boston Sep 2018
- SQLSaturday Denver Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Bucuresti Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Cape Town Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Cambridge Sep 2017
- SQLSaturday Denver Jul 2017 – Azure Edition
- SQLSaturday Atlanta Jul 2017
- SQLSaturday Lisbon Mar 2017
- SQLSaturday Dallas Mar 2017 – BI Edition
- SQLSaturday Denver Feb 2017 – BI Edition
- SQLSaturday Boston Feb 2017
Or a combination
- SQLSaturday Dallas May 2018 (#734)
- SQLSaturday Atlanta May 2018 BI Edition (#733)
- SQLSaturday Boston Sep 2018 (#647)
- SQLSaturday Denver Sep 2017 (#673)
- SQLSaturday Bucuresti Sep 2017 (#665)
- SQLSaturday Cape Town Sep 2017 (#637)
- SQLSaturday Cambridge Sep 2017 (#632)
- SQLSaturday Denver Jul 2017 – Azure Edition (#666)
- SQLSaturday Atlanta Jul 2017 (#652)
- SQLSaturday Lisbon Mar 2017 (#583)
- SQLSaturday Dallas Mar 2017 – BI Edition (#603)
- SQLSaturday Denver Feb 2017 – BI Edition (#596)
- SQLSaturday Boston Feb 2017 (#585)
If you look at these, which looks good? Answer my poll, and give a response as well. A comment here or on Twitter/LinkedIn.