I've been very much looking forward to my Wednesday afternoon flight out of the snowpocalyptic landscape that D.C. has become for the warmer climes of San Francisco to attend my first SPTechCon. Guess what? They're now calling for up to another foot of snow between Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, so I just got off the phone with an excellent United customer service representative who helpfully arranged to move my flight up to Tuesday afternoon, even generously waiving the standard change fees due to the oncoming storm.
This is great news since it means I'll now be arriving in town a day earlier than originally expected, and should as a result be able to take in one or more of the workshops and sessions being offered on Wednesday, the first official day of the Conference. (This is also not-so-great news, as it means I'll be leaving my wife to the not-so-tender mercies of yet another punishing snowstorm... and a driveway that will once again be filled with snow not long after my departure.)
The SPTechCon schedule of workshops and sessions is a feast of knowledge the likes of which I haven't seen since the Microsoft SharePoint Conference back in October. In addition to the previously blogged full slate of offerings from our Partner SharePoint911, the exhaustive offerings include sessions at every level of SharePoint expertise facilitated by an assemblage of veritable SharePoint rock stars including (though hardly limited to): Andrew Connell, Ben Curry, Bill English, Christophe Humbert, Brett Lonsdale, Mark Miller, Joel Oleson, Peter Serzo, Heather Solomon, Paul Swider, and Dux Raymond Sy.
Speaking of our friend Dux, have you heard about Operation ShareLove: Haiti Fund Drive and the associated raffle that he's organized to take place this Wednesday evening at SPTechCon? Over $40,000 worth of prizes will be raffled those who've made donations to the victims of the Haiti earthquake, and Bamboo has donated a coupon good for $5,000 toward the purchase of Web Parts, Applications, or Solution Accelerators from our online store to the prize pack. You don't need to be present at SPTechCon to win, so make a donation to the relief effort and get yourself entered for a chance to win!
Posted
Feb 08 2010, 04:08 PM
by
John Anderson
Filed under: Joel Oleson, Ben Curry, Bill English, Dux Raymond Sy, SPTechCon, Brett Lonsdale, Mark Miller, SharePoint911, Peter Serzo, Operation ShareLove: Haiti, Andrew Connell, Christophe Humbert, Heather Solomon, Paul Swider, SPTechCon Winter 2010
John Anderson joined Bamboo Solutions as Manager of Content & Syndication in May 2008 after a 12-year career at AOL. New to SharePoint at the time of his hiring, John was tasked with creating a new blog for the just-launched Bamboo Nation community in which he would document his daily SharePoint learning process. Thus was born the end user-centric SharePoint Blank, for which John authored 200 posts within a year, and which he continues to write today. Today, John writes SharePoint Blank in addition to his responsibilities as Managing Editor at Bamboo and, while he learned much about SharePoint in his first two years, he gleefully celebrates the release of SharePoint 2010 and the reset button that the new platform represents for SharePoint Blank.