Novell Cool Blogs is live – but very much running live in stealth mode.
Feel free to visit and take a look; over the next few days we’ll get the rest of the community posting – hopefully by then all of the teething troubles will have been ironed out.
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Many of you will be familiar with BrainShare – Novell’s annual gathering of customers, partners and channel partners.
One thing that may be news – this year BrainShare will be bigger than ever – the event is now ‘BrainShare Global’ – where people from across the globe will descent on Salt Lake City, Utah for a week of bonding, information gathering, research and fun. As always ZENworks will play a central part in this major event.
I will be blogging frequently in the next few weeks about the run up to the event – but we have keynotes, breakout sessions, Birds of a Feather sessions, hands-on-labs and much, much more.
One event that I encourage every technologist reading to attend – is Meet the Experts. This is a unique chance for you to spend some face-to-face time, in informal surroundings, with the people that make Novell’s products happen. Architects, engineers, support people, testers, localisation engineers, the odd Product Manager – we’ll all be present to let you ask questions. Any questions. No – I mean it – anything! From experience I know that this truly is ‘Meet the Experts’ – and it’s humbling to know that often you are the expert.I’ll give a running commentary of our BrainShare preparations in this blog (and some behind the scenes updates too).
Written at: Draper, UT
The first part of my Open Audio Podcasts is now live at Novell Open Audio.
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A warm welcome to all new Cool Blogs readers – this is a new concept for Novell; but hopefully will follow in the footsteps of Novell Open Audio as being an instant hit with you all.
By way of introduction – and I’ll keep this short – I am Martin Buckley; better known by some as the Evil ZEN Scientist. I have been working with ZENworks at Novell for over six years – predominantly as Product Manager. Yes – I was part of the team that made ZENworks for Desktops 3 and all subsequent releases arrive on your desks.
Prior to Novell I was working in various consulting roles in the United Kingdom implementing many different systems management products into customers – remember ManageWise? Standalone NetWare Application Launcher (now a core part of ZENworks)?
I have been blogging for a good while now – mainly around technology, systems management trend and the rise of corporate blogging.
Written at: Draper, UT
We sold one sofa on craigslist – now it’s time to sell the other.
We’re in the home straight; final testing for the new Novell Cool Blogs.
I’ve been hitting the test system hard in the last week – making suggestions to the Novell team that are making this happen. There are two main updates – the plan is now to use WordPress for the blog infrastucture; second launch is due ‘next week’.
The internal test system looks really great; all Novell branded and look and feel – but with live blog content. All of your favourite features should be there – comments, trackback, pings – as well as some unique blog posts from Novell’s strongest personalities.
I’ll leave it until announcement time so as not to spoil the surprise – but watch out – this is going to be big!
Special kudos to Mr Jared Nyland from Novell’s web team; he’s been awesome.
Ah – a favourite for Powerpointers world over – Harvey balls (or meatballs in Novell parlance) represent the relative impact of various options.
I found a great font with the balls in here – soniacoleman.com – and some great graphics here.
A sidenote: “Harvey balls” are named after their inventor–Harvey Poppel, a partner in the international consulting firm Booz Allen.
Our application for permanant residence in the US has been approved; in short our Green Cards are in the post.
It’s taken eight months to process – from first paperwork filing to approval. Sounds like a long time – but this is one of the fastest processed applications I’ve known.
Woo! We’ll be celebrating this evening – this removes a lot of risk.
At last – the flood of community content I’ve blogged about for the last month or so is starting to appear.
First out of the gates is Novell OpenAudio – Podcasts for the broad Novell Community.
I’ll not spoil the suprise – but I recorded a series of four podcasts with Erin Quill about a month ago. Watch out for them to show up.
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