Re: New COMMON Conference -- MIDRANGE-L

I could teach on .NET stuff, but budgets where they are (especially in
local governments)... getting to COMMON (or any out-of-state conference) is
problematic. I am doing about 90% .NET coding integrating with IBM i
applications.

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On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:27 AM, <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In summary:
- Richard's right. If you want more web content, especially .Net, from
COMMON, then request it.
- If you want to offer to teach .Net, or other topics of interest (related
or unrelated) contact COMMON.

Details:
I don't know how COMMON works. I don't know if they 'invite back' or hope
people resubmit their sessions for the next conference. I do recall
getting emails soliciting sessions for COMMON.

Richard did admit being too busy with some of the meetings requested by
common.

and I forget where I was going with the rest of this train of thought -
lot of interupptions this morning.

Rob Berendt
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From: Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 08/16/2012 08:49 AM
Subject: Re: New COMMON Conference
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

Uh, been there done that. Do you attend COMMON ? :)

Did a well attended lab in 2007. Never invited back. Apparently not
enough demand. .

Did a VB session and a session for natively running Visual Studio apps on
i. Got cut :)

I was invited to help select web content for COMMON and OK my fault for
being a bit too busy to attend meetings.

Maybe I'm just too boring. Nah, that can't be it :)

I'm happy to provide .Net content for IBM i, but why would I provide
advanced content when even the basic stuff gets cut ?

My main job is running a software company. My time is worth more than
that.

I don't care if it's me teaching the content, but COMMON members need to
get off their duffs and start requesting more .Net if they want guys like
me to teach content.

Either way I'll stay busy and continue to be vocal about COMMON and others
providing .Net content for IBM i.

Peace Out, Brother :)

Regards,
Richard Schoen
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Richard,

How about developing some sessions and delivering them for COMMON? One of
the biggest challenges the COMMON SME team faces is finding qualified
individuals to build and deliver content. So.... "self-described expert in
my own mind", by the way I'm sure most of us agree your one of the
industry experts in this realm, how about a go at doing it? I'm sure if
there there was sufficient content to present they would do another focus
on .Net and IBM i.

Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects
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