Wow, how do things get so out of control? One day I am packing getting ready for Summit 2013 and pushing the button on Nashville\u2019s SQLSaturday; the next minute I am freaking out that there is like 2 weeks before the big day. In that small run of less than 120 days I have done the following; went to summit (October), drove to Kalamazoo for SQLSat, spent 2 days in Fort Wayne, spent 1 night in Kokomo, there was Thanksgiving for 8 at my house, dad\u2019s bday, Kerry\u2019s bday, I catered lunch for 12 and a cocktail party for another 12, Christmas, I quit my job, went to Napa for a wine tour and got snowed out so I will be spending 2 extra days in San Diego.<\/p>\n
So this is my first SQLSaturday to be the chair for, the first time to be responsible for all of it. Now don\u2019t get scared I have done a ton of event planning in my day. I worked in the office of Development and alumni relations for The School of Technology at Purdue. I got to be apart of many great events and plan many just for our school. Because our school didn\u2019t have a huge budget I always had to be creative and come up with cost effective ways to get the job done.<\/p>\n
I will be writing a blog series on some of the things that we did for Nashville.\u00a0 You will just have to hang on until after it\u2019s all over.<\/p>\n
I won\u2019t be speaking at this event I have way to many things going on to worry about that. I hope to see a ton of my friends and I can\u2019t wait to get the feed back to see how everyone feels so that next year it can even be better.<\/p>\n
I will give you one thing I am really excited about, it\u2019s our Pre-Cons. A pre-con for a SQLSaturday is a whole day of training offered for a ridiculously low price. Current price is $125 (+eventbrite fees). You can\u2019t get a full day of professional training by some of the industry\u2019s best at a better rate anywhere. We have Denny Cherry [\u00a0 BLOG<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Twitter<\/a>\u00a0 ] presenting\u00a0\u00a0 and David Klee [\u00a0 BLOG<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0 Twitter<\/a>\u00a0 ] presenting .\u00a0 I really wish I had the time to attend one. If you want more details check our our SQLSaturday home page: http:\/\/www.sqlsaturday.com\/272\/eventhome.aspx<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wow, how do things get so out of control? One day I am packing getting ready for Summit 2013 and pushing the button on Nashville\u2019s SQLSaturday; the next minute I am freaking out that there is like 2 weeks before the big day. In that small run of less than 120 days I have done the following; went to summit (October), drove to Kalamazoo for SQLSat, spent 2 days in Fort Wayne, spent 1 night in Kokomo, there was Thanksgiving for 8 at my house, dad\u2019s bday, Kerry\u2019s bday, I catered lunch for 12 and a cocktail party for another 12, Christmas, I quit my job, went to Napa for . . . → Read More: SQLSaturday Nashville!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[228,221,148],"tags":[231,218,262,245],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqlfamily-technology","category-sqlsat","category-pass","tag-sqlcommunity","tag-sqlfamily","tag-sqlsatnash","tag-sqlsaturday","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}