By Tamera, on November 5th, 2013%
Location, Location, Location
Those are the 3 rules of real estate. But it was quite the conversation this year. I heard many things being discussed about why this was good or bad. First there was the disappointment that the registration numbers didn’t look that elevated for the surrounding area. But until everything is finalized that one remains neutral. One of my friends complained that the flight cost them nearly $400 each but a normal flight to Seattle was only $150. I said that my flights to Seattle are about $400-450 and the non-stop is seasonal so it sucks even more. This year we were able to drive which only . . . → Read More: PASS Summit 2013, the summary
By Tamera, on October 3rd, 2013% Well La Jolla to be exact!!!!
What a great weekend with #SQLFamily. I believe this is the farthest we’ve traveled to attend a SQL Saturday. Had we driven it would have taken 28 hours and we’d put 2,041 on the car just to get there. Good thing we have the modern marvels of flight. Instead we rode in the back of a Southwest 737 for just short of 4 hours. So much fun to leave Nashville at 8 am and arrive at 10 am local time. Fun until 8 pm local time when I start to get sleepy!!!
We had an action packed weekend. There was a BBQ on . . . → Read More: #SQLSat249 San Diego
By Tamera, on September 26th, 2013% This to me is one of those fundamental rights that Americans choose to ignore. Not only do they ignore this right by not voting they vote uninformed, based on what their neighbor, family member or news add told them. People believe the craziest things in my opinion. I have been a very stubborn, bull headed and determined person my entire life. Some of that comes from the women folk side of my family and the rest of it purely out of not wanting to fit in. Once I discovered that you don’t have to belong to a political party to vote and that you can vote for anyone on the . . . → Read More: VOTE!
By Tamera, on September 23rd, 2013% This should be my final post about the NomCom and it’s current process. I just want to leave you with a few more tidbits. It might be interesting for me to blog about improvements but I believe that the NomCom has requested that an ERC (Election Review Committee) be put together to review and possibility implement our suggestions.
NomCom
The NomCom has 2 responsibilities. The first one is to verify/determine if an applicant is qualified. That process is done as soon as the applications are reviewed. The second responsibility is to rank the applicants and provide the slate to the BoD to be ratified.
Rankings
I want to state for . . . → Read More: NomCom Part 4
By Tamera, on September 18th, 2013% So it’s mostly done; we’ve read all the applications, conducted all the interviews and ranked all of the applicants. I am not here to tell you what I think is wrong with entire process I am here to enlighten you on how this works. Maybe later if you are really good you can have my advice and my thoughts about process.
Definitions Qualified
According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/qualified this is what qualified means. a: fitted (as by training or experience) for a given purpose :competent b : having complied with the specific requirements or precedent conditions (as for an office or employment) : eligible
According to PASS the qualifications/requirements for being on . . . → Read More: NomCom Part 3
By Tamera, on September 11th, 2013% Or AKA:
I am presenting at #SQLSat249
THIS week I will be traveling to San Diego to present, help with the WIT program and man the PASS booth. I am not sure which of my sessions I am doing, the organizers sent out a note and said everyone that submitted gets their sessions. OOPS I submitted 2 and I think I need to focus on manning the booth so I have asked to only do 1. I am so excited I can hardly wait. There is a lovely BBQ planned and a lovely beer tour. This beer tour we are taking looks dog gone awesome. I am totally excited . . . → Read More: SAN DIEGO here I come!!!!!
By Tamera, on September 6th, 2013%
Not just for SQLSaturday
I have visited SQLSaturdays, I have spoke at SQLSatrudays and I am starting the planning for my own here in Nashville. I have learned so many things and I have listened to the small complaints, don’t get me wrong they are not huge deals but I have been keeping notes. I am going to break this down into a list hopefully it will help remind me and help you with your next event.
I guess now is a good time to tell you that I have experience as an event planner. Ha! Bet you didn’t know that. When I worked for the School of . . . → Read More: Event Planning Suggestions
By Tamera, on August 17th, 2013% Well I have to say that everyone waits until the last minute to turn in their applications, so much so we were asked to accept a late one and had to turn them down. Because of this I will suggest for next year that there be more time between the application deadline and the first round of rankings being due. I got mine as I was walking out the door for a trip to Indiana for SQLSat 242. I was scrambling to get those done Monday and there were only 9 can you imagine if there were more? I also recommend not waiting till the deadline, this would give more . . . → Read More: NomCom Part 2
By Tamera, on August 15th, 2013% The wrap up!
So it is always bittersweet to go home. I love getting to see friends and family but hate that I don’t have the time to see them all. So besides that let me give you my summary.
Great location. Our hotel was 6 miles away and it was truly a non-issue. Great venue, everything worked, was clean and all rooms were ready for presentations. Speed PASS!! If you aren’t doing this for your event you should. Free Internet, so important! LOVED the envelope with vendor goodies. So my new favorite order is thumb drive, plastic envelope, bags. Ample parking. Shirts were awesome. And I mostly appreciated that . . . → Read More: Post #SQLSat242
By Tamera, on July 26th, 2013% So this week PASS started accepting applications for seats on the Board of Directors.
Let me tell you what we have done so far as the nomination committee. I will leave out all the boring details of schedules, meetings, and reading by-laws and just stick to the real work. We were tasked with two important things that all had to be done prior to the announcement this week.
First is the application. We each made suggestions and requested a bit more information regarding the requirements within the document. The changes that were suggested were just more or less to make things a bit easier to understand. There are also a . . . → Read More: NomCom Part 1
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