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What Do We Want from PASS?

  • October 27, 2009 at 10:31 am

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    I'll third the value of at least occasionally attending a user group. It wasn't feasible for me to do it travel wise until 2007, now I find it invaluable for the networking.

    Yeah, I'm sure PASS falls short at the international level, but that's easy to do. I work for an international non-profit that has partners around the world. I'm currently on a project trying to create an application for tracking people for use internationally. What we consider important in the US doesn't always go with what our international partners find important. Working internationally is hard and takes a lot of effort.

    Dan, your take is interesting, and, I think, it melds well with what I'd like to see PASS become. Gotta get that blog post out!:-D

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  • October 28, 2009 at 9:35 pm

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    Andy, I like your idea of folks posting what they would like to see from PASS. If nothing else, it'll give those of us in the noisy 50 an opportunity to throw down some ideas, many of which I would expect to intersect with one another. I'll put my thoughts into a blog shortly.

    As for referring to the PASS Summit as simply PASS, I admit guilt in having done this before my enlightenment a few years back. Before I was involved like I am now, to me PASS was just the PASS Summit and nothing more, and I expect that this is still true for many people. One of the chief challenges for the organization will be to become relevant to database pros during the other 51 weeks of the year. I think Jack's suggestion of PASS becoming more active and visible with local groups would be a great start.

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