Hi,
> Roger, unless you can get Larry the Cable guy
to come crack jokes at Longnecks for nothing more
than a case of beer, please keep that stuff out
of the Capitalware conference to keep it technical and affordable.
Actually, last summer I had the bright idea of
getting an Astrophysicist (I thought it would be
cool) but he was unavailable, so they offered me
"2nd tier" scientist for $15,000 plus travel &
hotel. After I picked up my jaw off the floor, I said no thanks.
$15,000 for 1 hour of work for a "2nd tier"
scientist, I am truly in the wrong line of
work. To this day, I'm still baffled. 1 hour == $15,000. Wow!!
So, that's not going to happen and I'll be the
entertainment for the conference. :)
Now just so people know, the vendor sponsorship
fee and the attendee fee will need to increase a
little bit next year. This year the total "all in
cost" for MQTC 2.0.1.3 was $38,900 USD and I
collected (from attendees & vendors) $29,000
USD. Basically, I didn't account for all of the
fixed costs of the conference. I'm not out to
make money doing MQTC, I just want to cover my
costs. Therefore, the vendor fees will go up a
little bit and the attendee early bird fee last
year was $249 and next year it will be either
$299 or $329. It will still be a very cheap conference. :)
Regards,
Roger Lacroix
Capitalware Inc.
At 11:29 AM 12/20/2013, Potkay, Peter M (CTO Architecture + Engineering) wrote:
>If you are not attending IMPACT, email or call
>them and let them know that and why.
>
>Too expensive.
>Less technical each year.
>Much as I like Cirque de Soliel, Drew Carrey,
>etc, its a shameful and frivolous expenditure
>of money by IBM on things like that at what used
>to be a good educational conference. I wonder
>how much more affordable the attendance fee
>would be and/or how many less support staff
>would get RAed if they skipped the Carrie Underwood performance?
>
>Roger, unless you can get Larry the Cable guy to
>come crack jokes at Longnecks for nothing more
>than a case of beer, please keep that stuff out
>of the Capitalware conference to keep it technical and affordable.
>
>
>Peter Potkay
>
>
>From: MQSeries List
>[mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of T.Rob
>Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 10:22 AM
>To: MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org
>Subject: Re: GSE Websphere Technical Conference (Europe)
>
>Yeah, I'm not liking it either. When I was an
>IBMer, and as a Product Manager in particular, I
>was very aware of the need to not appear as if
>customers in non-US geos were unimportant or
>less important and I lobbied hard for more
>training around the globe. It may be possible
>that when I said "we need to ensure the European
>conference stays alive" my bosses heard "T.Rob
>wants to go to Europe" which squelched my
>voice. I don't know if that's true but in any
>case I didn't get the impression the advice was
>heard very far up the food chain.
>
>However, I can assure you there are others still
>within the WebSphere organization who feel the
>same way and continue to work toward reviving an
>event in Europe. But because the funding (and
>resources) previously came from a different
>department, some other departmental sponsor
>first has to commit to the idea and then at
>least one funding cycle has to pass before they
>have money to make it happen. For an event that
>big, they also typically need a year lead time
>to book the hall. That means it's probably at
>least 2 ~ 3 years out, unless there were plans
>in the works already during the transition.
>
>My only advice for an IBM customer there is to
>make your need for local training known to
>IBM. Bug your rep, your lab advocate if you
>have one, your IBM exec. If you are not
>attending IMPACT, email or call them and let
>them know that and why. In the meantime, as I
>mentioned earlier, I'm ready to support non-IBM
>events there and can think of several other
>likely candidates. Roger's event was pulled
>together on a shoestring and turned out to be
>extremely valuable and successful. Any European
>sponsors want to give it a shot?
>
>-- T.Rob
>
>
>From: MQSeries List
>[<mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org>mailto:MQSERIES-***@public.gmane.orgWIEN.AC.AT]
>On Behalf Of LM Demey (MQ)
>Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 9:14 AM
>To:
><mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org>MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/***@public.gmane.orgAT
>Subject: Re: GSE Websphere Technical Conference (Europe)
>
>Hi all,
>
>For a technical conference, I confirm that for
>most french customers, moving to the other side
>of the ocean and more difficult to sell than a trip to Europe.
>Especially if the destination city looks more
>like casinos rather than queues ans clusters! (Impact)
>
>The abolition of the European Technical
>Conference in 2013 was a very bad signal sent by IBM to European customers:
>"- The websphere products have little future, so
>needless to organize a conference on it"
>"- The europees customers are not large enough to hold a conference in Europe"
>"- If, despite everything, they want to know
>what happens in the IBM software, they have to
>come to IMPACT like everyone else"
>
>Some (me for example) may consider coming to
>Kalahari (even if it evokes here the country of
>the Lion King). Many others, that could make the
>trip to Berlin (as in 2011 & 2012) or Barcelona
>/ Vienna / ... will not go anywhere.
>
>Regards.
>
>Le 20/12/2013 14:30, Pere Guerrero Olmedo a écrit :
>Thanks Roger and T.Rob,
>
>I will keep in mind your suggestions, but it
>still seems to be quite difficult to convince my boss to fly over the ocean
J
>
>Regards
>Pere
>
>
>De: MQSeries List
>[<mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org>mailto:MQSERIES-***@public.gmane.orgWIEN.AC.AT]
>En nombre de Roger Lacroix
>Enviado el: jueves, 19 de diciembre de 2013 18:52
>Para:
><mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org>MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/***@public.gmane.orgAT
>Asunto: Re: GSE Websphere Technical Conference (Europe)
>
>All,
>
> > the Capitalware event which I believe is scheduled for next October.
>
>MQTC v2.0.1.4 will be held on September 29th to
>October 1st, 2014. I have the exact same 8
>rooms at Kalahari booked for the next conference
>(5 for sessions, 2 for breakfast & lunch and 1
>large room for the vendor pavilion).
>
>As always, I'll be looking for speakers for MQTC
>v2.0.1.4. I'll do the "official" call for
>speakers in the beginning of January but you can email me anytime.
>
>The "official" launch (updated web site) of MQTC
>v2.0.1.4 will be near the end of January. Note:
>If you haven't downloaded the PDFs from the MQTC
>v2.0.1.3 sessions then please do so before January.
>
>Since most people appeared to like the slower
>pace for the sessions, I'll continue with that
>format. The sessions will be 75 minutes (50-55
>content & 20-25 minutes for Q&A) and there will
>be a 15 minute break after each session. That
>gives 70 session slots (all MQ related) over the 3 days.
>
>Regards,
>Roger Lacroix
>Capitalware Inc.
>
>At 10:04 AM 12/19/2013, you wrote:
>Hi Pere,
>
>I'm not sure if you are aware but IBM this year
>divested much of their education program and
>downsized that department. The European WTC was
>run out of the IBM EU Education department so I
>would be very surprised if it came back this
>year, or any time soon for that matter. My
>suggestion would be to attend IMPACT and/or the
>Capitalware event which I believe is scheduled for next October.
>
>IMPACT I'll assume you know about. The
>Capitalware conference aspires to be what the
>old T&M conference used to be focused on deep
>technical sessions and messaging in
>particular. It succeeded beyond
>expectations. Many people I spoke to said it
>was the best MQ event they'd been to in many
>years. And these are people I first met at the
>T&M many years ago who had a good basis for comparison.
>
>I pitched sponsorship of that first Capitalware
>event to many of my customers and business
>partners and it was a tough sell. Few wanted to
>take a chance on a new and unproven event and
>early registration numbers didn't look too
>promising. But the registration numbers spiked
>as the date drew near. We had a really good
>sized crowd and the vendor area was small enough
>to fit in a single ballroom so it was intimate
>(for a conference) and well attended. Based on
>the success, I expect a much larger turnout next
>year and many of the business partners I spoke
>with who were on the fence now can't wait to
>sign up. I believe this coming year Roger is
>either going to have to turn away sponsors or
>revise his floor plan for a larger room.
>
>There is a distant 3rd possibility that someone
>will arrange for technical training in
>Europe. I've done conferences there for IBM,
>GSE and GWC. One of the issues faced is that
>border crossing there seems to be more of an
>issue than in the US. Apparently even though it
>is somewhere on the continent, the location of
>the conference makes a huge difference as to who
>from each country can attend. That makes
>hosting an event a bit riskier for the
>organizer. The approach GWC took was to hold
>small, week-long seminars with 3 speakers and to
>have several of them in various locations. The
>GSE event at which I spoke catered to an almost
>exclusively local crowd. IBM used to be able to
>draw widely but not at the scale of IMPACT.
>
>It's a problem I'd like to solve so if anyone
>does plan an MQ conference to serve Europe, or
>for that matter pretty much anywhere else that
>isn't being served, and can hold their event in
>English, I'd try to participate. In the
>meantime, I'm submitting abstracts to IMPACT and
>Capitalware. I'd love to see you at one of those if you can make it.
>
>-- T.Rob
>
>
>From: MQSeries List [
>mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Pere Guerrero Olmedo
>Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:10 AM
>To:
><mailto:MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/bWDasg6f+***@public.gmane.org>MQSERIES-0lvw86wZMd9k/***@public.gmane.orgAT
>Subject: GSE Websphere Technical Conference (Europe)
>
>Hi,
>
>Anybody (specially from IBM) could confirm me if
>this year is planned any kind of Websphere
>(obviously with MQ) Technical Conference in Europe?
>
>Thanks guys.
>Pere
>
>
>
>
>
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