{"id":121,"date":"2008-01-16T23:14:36","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T04:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/2008\/01\/16\/the-user-group-conferences-are-coming\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:58:29","slug":"the-user-group-conferences-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/16\/the-user-group-conferences-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"The User Group Conferences Are Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOkay, not for a while, but for those that are presenters at the conference, the US winter is a time of solemn writing. Whitepaper deadlines are approaching for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioug.org\/\">IOUG<\/a> program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ioug.org\/collaborate08\/\">Collaborate 08<\/a> (April 14-18 in Denver) conference quickly. Soon after, the presentations for those sessions will be due. No rest for the wicked after that since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odtug.com\/\">ODTUG<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.odtugkaleidoscope.com\/\">Kaleidoscope 08<\/a> conference will come soon after, in June in New Orleans (note to self: bring extra sweat rags).<\/p>\n<p>As has been the case for several years, the IOUG and ODTUG have graciously selected some of my submissions for presentation at their respective conferences.  While ODTUG has announced that they&#8217;ve selected their sessions, they haven&#8217;t yet posted them or notified many of the speakers.<\/p>\n<p>For the 5 or so people that probably read this blog :), here are the sessions where you&#8217;ll find me at Collaborate 08 this year:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To RAC or Not To RAC: What&#8217;s Best For HA? (this is a debate session that I&#8217;m coordinating), Thursday @ 9:45 AM<\/li>\n<li>SSL, Load Balancers, Rewrite, Redirect, and More Advanced Configuration (a 2-hour expert session co-presented with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matttopper.com\/\">Matt Topper<\/a>), Monday @ 9:15 AM<\/li>\n<li>Building A RAC Test Environment On VMWare For Free (a 2-hour expert session), Tuesday @ 3:30 PM<\/li>\n<li>Oracle Adaptive Access Manager: What, Why,  How, Wednesday @ 8:30 AM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, I&#8217;ll also be coordinating and participating in several sessions for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracleracsig.org\/\">RAC SIG<\/a> at the conference, but we haven&#8217;t yet set dates or times for them.<\/p>\n<p>At the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference happening June 15-18 in New Orleans, I&#8217;ll be presenting the following sessions (they haven&#8217;t scheduled them yet):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How A RAT Will Save Your Job<\/li>\n<li>RAC For Beginners: The Basics<\/li>\n<li>Sunday Fusion Middleware Symposium session: SSL, Load Balancers, Rewrite, Redirect, and More Advanced Configuration (co-presentation with Matt&#8211;a repeat of the Collaborate session)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UPDATE<\/span>: The last session listed above (OAS Advanced Config) is only to be presented at the Sunday Fusion Middleware Symposium instead of a regular conference slot. If you really want the full version, come to Collaborate! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>If you submitted a session to ODTUG and haven&#8217;t heard back, check <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prairiesystemsgroup.com\/odtug_abstracts.html\">here<\/a> for status.<\/p>\n<p>Still not enough? I&#8217;m also presenting at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nocoug.org\/\">Northern California Oracle Users Group<\/a> conference on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nocoug.org\/next.html\">February 19th<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=l&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=oracle+conference+center&amp;near=350+Oracle+Pkwy,+Redwood+City,+CA+94065&amp;sll=37.532623,-122.264689&amp;sspn=0.006526,0.007811&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=17&amp;iwloc=A&amp;om=0\">Oracle&#8217;s Conference Center<\/a> on the HQ Campus. At that event, you can see me in the front talking on these topics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oracle Adaptive Access Manager: What, Why,  How, at 2:30 PM<\/li>\n<li>High Availability Options for Oracle Database, at 4 PM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be a busy spring and summer. I&#8217;m not sure I really understood how busy until I wrote it all down in one place&#8230;yikes.<\/p>\n<p>Then things might calm down, but not for long since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/openworld\/\">Oracle OpenWorld<\/a> is coming early this year (September 21-25)!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, not for a while, but for those that are presenters at the conference, the US winter is a time of solemn writing. Whitepaper deadlines are approaching for the IOUG program at the Collaborate 08 (April 14-18 in Denver) conference quickly. Soon after, the presentations for those sessions will be due. 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