@ChrisAVWood this is not about the timing, as we moved ultra fast from in-person to virtual. This is all about the team:

• We are totally fine with asking...

I second alex.yates here => #sqlfamily != #passcommunity!

PASS/C&C single focus on selling PASS Summit tickets pushed away many organizers. Many community events exist in spite of PASS and not because...

IMHO here is what PASS does for an on-going Local User Groups and SQL Saturdays

Local User Group:

• provides a web site under a subdomain of pass.org
• sends a monthly PPT...

@dba_318, sorry if I misunderstood you. you sounded to me judgmental, so maybe it was all in my head! 🙂

Just FYI - we at SQL Saturday in Los...

DBA_318, I wouldn't be so judgmental. We are all different and have different motives.

I don't think that somebody is running a SQL Saturday and/or User Groups just for a comp...

I'm going to second Andy (@AMtwo) here. I find it very disturbing (to say the least) that PASS bylaws stating a non-for-profit nature while PASS has NO IRS federal tax-exemption...

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I think it should be FREE. I'm going to speculate and say that all the expenses could be covered by sponsors. Making Virtual PASS Summit free would allow PASS to...

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You have hit the nail on the head - without conference admission to the UG organizers to PASS Summit, there is very little to none incentive to stay with PASS....

1. Not very Microsoft centric, 3 days event for data people that can only afford an event in US
2. An opportunity to talk to DBAs from other US States and...

Well, nothing beats a very thorough financial analysis made by Steph Locke few years ago - https://medium.com/@SteffLocke/sqlsaturdays-shouldnt-give-up-pass-money-a478a97ee0c7.

Users groups are mostly independent. Those groups that are still PASS dependent can replace user group web site functionality with freely available commercial tools like eventbrite/tito and mailerlite/sendgrid in a...

Great catch. Please try again, it's fixed now. Looks like my "copy-and-paste" feature was slacking! 🙂

This might work as well. That being said, I updated my initial script and now it takes a server as a parameter, so backup and restore servers could be 2...

Jeff, Good point. I didn't realize that this flyer is not reusable beyond Los Angeles! 🙂

Stay tuned for a newer version that would make Los Angeles a replaceable text.

Event marketing and promotion

Reusable 2020 SQL Saturday in Los Angeles Event flyer (printer-friendly) in a Word format (credit goes to Nasser Mansour and Elaena Bakman)

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