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Barcelona #3
There is a distinct lack of an iron in the hotel.
There are dozens of Novell people with speaker shirts looking for an iron; the BrainShare event team had to ‘borrow’ one so that the shirts did not look crumpled.
The other funny is the difficulty of finding chewing gum.
I spent an hour with Alan Murray walking around the shopping centre next to the hotel looking for anywhere that sold gum. We spent nearly an hour hunting shops and a super market; finally we found a small news stand – and we bought up about 10 Euro of gum and mints. We looked like lunatics.
BrainShare Barcelona – day 2 – Tuesday 13th September
A busy day. I will post photos later today!
Sunrise:
Up early for a final run through of the keynote. All went well – I co-presented with Alan Murray; we covered ZENworks 7, ZENworks 7 Linux Management and ZENworks 7 Asset Management. Everything worked well – and we were exactly within our time allocation.
More sessions this afternoon – TUT 217 – ZENworks Architecture overview and future, TUT 223 – Managing NLD with ZLM and finally TUT 317 – ZENworks Linux Management best practices.
(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)
BrainShare Barcelona – day 1 – Monday 12th September
Day 1 of BrainShare – and it feels like day 5 already!
I arrived in Barcelona on Friday and spent the whole of Saturday training our EMEA Category Specialists and Consultants. That was fun. It was great to see some familiar faces again.
Today I was building the keynote demo for the Tuesday keynote – all of the usual fun.
I also presented my first session of the week – TUT 315 – ZENworks Patch Management best practices.
(Session download information: User name: cb_novell, Password: n0ve11)
I finally finished the evening rehearsing the keynote – late night again. I missed the ZENworks Community of Practice dinner – which was sad.
Building a keynote demo – revisited
I blogged from BrainShare in SLC about building a keynote demo.
The keynote we build for BrainShare in March was based on pre-release code; an early beta of ZENworks 7 Linux Management and a hastily rebranded early look at ZENworks Asset Management.
Things are a lot easier this time – we now have shipping product to demo with – and I am using the fantastic integrated demo system from Doc Hodges. I’ve got a few good workstations and VMware images.
I’ll take some more screen shots and share them online.
Blogging and Conferences
Robert Scoble had an interesting post on blogging at Microsoft Professional Developers Conference:
A new kind of conference experience from the inside
You know, for a conference team, blogs have really changed how we can watch the customer’s experience. We’re hitting the blogs a lot to see what people are reporting. Since there’s 1,000 bloggers here, if there’s a problem it’s very likely to get blogged before we even know about it. The scale of the PDC is just huge. It takes something like 15 minutes to walk from one end of the hall to the other and really the customer experience is all over the city. If you aren’t having a good experience in your hotel, for instance, it reflects poorly on the conference. Often times we can help if we know but in the old days a conference team wouldn’t be able to see these kinds of problems in real time.
Interesting. I’ll see how many people are here at BrainShare Barcelona blogging – certainly this looks interesting for BrainShare in SLC next year.
Barcelona #2 – at the airport
Ah – it’s fun being back in Spain – the culture is unique.
One example was from yesterday at the airport.
The baggage carousel became jammed with a badly positioned bag, and caused a huge pile of spilled bags and cases. Imagine a pile of jumbled checked baggage about ten feet high and forty feet long. No one came to clear the blockage – so passengers had to fight for their own:
Barcelona
I arrived in Barcelona today after spending a productive day in London visiting customers.
BrainShare is being held in a different venue this year – the brand new CCIB out on the east side of the city. Here‘s a google satellite picture of the place under construction.
The weekend will be spent with training Novell people and preparing for the week. I will post pictures and more.
Firefox vs. IE again
Fun and games again. I found another example where Microsoft is seemingly deliberately blocking the use of non-IE browsers; and this time with no ActiveX fun:
This makes no sense – even the MSDN subscription download site works with non-IE browsers (even the menuing is fixed in Deer Park)
iPod nano
I want a black one:
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