{"id":253,"date":"2008-09-18T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-18T14:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:57:58","slug":"oracle-open-world-08-plans-no-ukoug-for-me-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/oracle-open-world-08-plans-no-ukoug-for-me-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Open World 08 Plans, no UKOUG for me this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA few years ago, I started getting too many events on my schedule for conferences, so I began using a spreadsheet to track all the sessions I wanted to attend, presentations I was scheduled to give, meetings with customers, times I had to be on booth duty, and, of course, social events I had to attend. This year&#8217;s OOW spreadsheet has 61 lines in it, so I&#8217;ll spare you the deep details. Here&#8217;s a recap of some of the most important events on my schedule over the next week (a few additions since my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/2008\/08\/07\/upcoming-presentations-oow-ukoug\/\">last posting<\/a> of the same):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Saturday, September 20 (my birthday!!), 8am: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/scuba-diving\/\">Scuba diving<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/2008\/05\/06\/who-wants-to-scuba-pre-oow08\/\">Monterrey Bay<!--more--><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Sunday, September 21\n<ul>\n<li>8:30am: <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/session_details.jsp?isid=301445&amp;ilocation_id=208-1&amp;ilanguage=english\">Oracle RAC SIG Scalability Panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>10am: <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/catalog.jsp?ilc=208-1&amp;ilg=english&amp;isort_sessions=&amp;isort_demos=&amp;isort_exhibitors=&amp;is=yes&amp;ip=%3C%2Fipresentations%3E&amp;isort_sessions_type=&amp;isort_exhibitors_type=&amp;isort_demos_type=&amp;search_sessions=yes&amp;icriteria1=+&amp;icriteria2=+&amp;icriteria5=+&amp;icriteria8=&amp;icriteria9=+&amp;icriteria6=S301003&amp;icriteria3=+&amp;icriteria7=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building an Oracle Real Application Clusters Environment on VMWare for Free (IOUG)<\/a> (S301003)<\/li>\n<li>4pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/session_details.jsp?isid=301187&amp;ilocation_id=208-1&amp;ilanguage=english\">Oracle RAC SIG Birds of a Feather Session<\/a><\/li>\n<li>7pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oraclecommunity.net\/events\/event\/show?id=1988559%3AEvent%3A20142\">Oracle Blogger Meetup<\/a>, Thirsty Bear<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Monday, September 22\n<ul>\n<li>11:30am: <a href=\"https:\/\/mix.oracle.com\/ideas\/27616-so-you-want-to-be-an-oracle-ace\">So, You Want to Be an Oracle ACE?<\/a> (co-presented with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pythian.com\/blogs\/1146\/sheeri-cabral-speaks-at-oracle-open-world\">Sheeri Cabral<\/a>) (S301397)<\/li>\n<li>2:30pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/session_details.jsp?isid=298761&amp;ilocation_id=208-1&amp;ilanguage=english\">Oracle RAC SIG Expert Panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>4pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.oracle.com\/page\/Oracle+ACE+Office+Hours+in+the+OTN+Lounge\">Oracle ACE Office Hours<\/a> (OTN Lounge)<\/li>\n<li>7:30pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/openworld\/2008\/otn-night.html\">OTN Night<\/a> at the Hilton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, September 23\n<ul>\n<li>3pm: <a href=\"https:\/\/mix.oracle.com\/ideas\/27616-so-you-want-to-be-an-oracle-ace\">So, You Want to Be an Oracle ACE?<\/a> (repeated&#8211;but never the same session twice&#8211;at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/otn\/2008\/08\/get_busy_oracle_openworld_unco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OTN Unconference<\/a>, Overlook I)<\/li>\n<li>4pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/products\/id_mgmt\/oaam\/index.html\">Oracle Adaptive Access Manager<\/a>: What, Why, How? at <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oracle.com\/otn\/2008\/08\/get_busy_oracle_openworld_unco.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">OTN Unconference<\/a>, Overlook I)<\/li>\n<li>6pm: Oracle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technology\/community\/oracle_ace\/index.html\">ACE<\/a> Dinner<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, September 24\n<ul>\n<li>11am: Communication for Geeks <a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.oracle.com\/page\/Oracle+OpenWorld+Unconference\">unconference<\/a> session by <a href=\"http:\/\/bexhuff.com\/\">Bex<\/a><\/li>\n<li>1pm: <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/session_details.jsp?isid=298783&amp;ilocation_id=208-1&amp;ilanguage=english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"title\">Oracle RAC SIG: Telecom on Oracle Real Application Clusters&#8211;Extreme OLTP<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Thursday, September 25\n<ul>\n<li>10:30am: <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/session_details.jsp?isid=300480&amp;ilocation_id=208-1&amp;ilanguage=english\">Oracle ACE Director Birds-of-a-Feather Tips and Techniques Panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li>12pm (noon): <a href=\"http:\/\/www28.cplan.com\/cc208\/catalog.jsp?ilc=208-1&amp;ilg=english&amp;isort_sessions=&amp;isort_demos=&amp;isort_exhibitors=&amp;is=yes&amp;ip=%3C%2Fipresentations%3E&amp;isort_sessions_type=&amp;isort_exhibitors_type=&amp;isort_demos_type=&amp;search_sessions=yes&amp;icriteria1=+&amp;icriteria2=+&amp;icriteria5=+&amp;icriteria8=&amp;icriteria9=+&amp;icriteria6=S300044&amp;icriteria3=+&amp;icriteria7=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Integrating Microsoft Active Directory and Oracle Internet Directory with Database Logins: Enterprise User Security (IOUG) (S300044)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Heading home&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m also watching out for <a href=\"http:\/\/oracleappslab.com\/2008\/09\/12\/unconference-news-and-preparation\/\">Jake&#8217;s unconference session<\/a> which he said he&#8217;ll schedule onsite. In between all these events, I&#8217;ve got some sessions I&#8217;m hoping to attend as well. Of course, evenings will no doubt be filled with networking with (hopefully) lots of people I haven&#8217;t met yet as well as the usual suspects like <a href=\"http:\/\/matttopper.com\/\">Matt<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/awads.net\/\">Eddie<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/oracleappslab.com\/\">Jake<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/bexhuff.com\/\">Bex<\/a>, and lots of other cool iPhone-carrying coolkids (I don&#8217;t have one, btw).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be attempting to <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dannorris\">tweet<\/a> regularly and keep my location somewhat current on <a href=\"http:\/\/bkite.com\">Brightkite<\/a> as well. Prepare for hearing a lot about how much contempt I have for my phone in the course of all that (my contract ends in November!).<\/p>\n<p>On a completely unrelated note, unfortunately, I won&#8217;t be able to attend the UKOUG conference in December this year as I had previously hoped. The reasons are the usual ones&#8230;priorities, money, personal obligations, etc. I&#8217;m sincerely grateful to UKOUG for accepting my session and quite unhappy that I won&#8217;t be able to attend this year. I&#8217;m already gearing up for a 3+-conference year next year with the hopes that UKOUG will be on the list. Not sure AUSOUG will make the list next year&#8230;we&#8217;ll see (there is great diving in AU, so that may influence my decisions!).<\/p>\n<p>See you in a few days in San Francisco!\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago, I started getting too many events on my schedule for conferences, so I began using a spreadsheet to track all the sessions I wanted to attend, presentations I was scheduled to give, meetings with customers, times I had to be on booth duty, and, of course, social events I had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/18\/oracle-open-world-08-plans-no-ukoug-for-me-this-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Oracle Open World 08 Plans, no UKOUG for me this year&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,34,15,17,24],"tags":[44,142,148,171,191,200],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diving","category-events","category-openworld","category-oracle","category-rac-sig","category-unconference","tag-agenda","tag-oow08","tag-openworld08","tag-presentations","tag-schedule","tag-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":521,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}