The Domino Chick

All done!

Thursday, January 27th, 2005

Susan and I just wrapped up our last presentation and finished up our staffing duties at the Meet the Developers lab. We're not technically done - we need to be at the Ask the Developers panel after lunch - but we're done with our official duties. All of our sessions went well. Our first Jumpstart had some technical difficulties because one of our servers kept giving us the blue screen of death (thanks XP!) We finally resolved it but didn't really need to since we ended up just using the two other servers instead. It did let us insert a little impromptu joke, though - my test servers are in the Sandwich domain, and the servers we used were Bacon, Vegemite (a nod to our friends from down under) and Grilled Cheese. Grilled Cheese was the one that was b0rked, so we told everyone that Grilled Cheese was... wait for it... toast.

The second jumpstart on Sunday went much more smoothly. Monday - Wednesday we had varying lab staff duties and managed to squeeze in some sessions that colleagues needed us to attend. Ed's "Boss Loves Microsoft" session was great as always, as was Wes Morgan's session on networking for collaboration. Our last session to present was this morning and was on AdminP. We got to announce that the 21-day name change reversion problem that so plagued many customers now requires administrator approval in 6.5.4 and later. We knew it was fixed in 7, which was in our presentation already, but we got confirmation from the developers that it's also fixed in 6.5.4. Most of the session attendees seemed very happy with the content of the session. And I put my blog URL in the resources slide, so for those of you that attended or are coming here from other Lotusphere speakers or attendees' blogs, hello!

Speaking of blogs, a lot of interesting points were brought up in the Lotus Blogging Community Birds of a Feather session on Wednesday, and I've got a blog post brewing in my head about it. I also had to promise all the other bloggers there that I'd blog more often. And I will.

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 12:20:11 PM
Location: Orlando, FL

Innovators Panel

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

I'm sitting in the Innovators panel at Lotusphere. Panelists include Ray Ozzie, Mike Rhodin, Irene Greif, Conrad Cross and Mike Dituro. It's being moderated by Esther Dyson, and it is really cool to hear Ray talk about what he and his teammates were thinking when they created Notes, and how their sort of "shoot from the hip" concepts coincided with social and computer research that was going on at the same time.

There are a ton of people attending this session - I think it'll prove to be one of the most popular panels of the conference.

Now I'll get back to listening to them talk about the last 15 years and what's to come in the next 15.

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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 08:45:00 AM
Location: Orlando, FL

Lotusphere preparation

Saturday, January 15th, 2005

Right. Time to make this an active blog again. Sorry 'bout that.

I'll be delivering a couple of sessions at Lotusphere '05 with my esteemed colleague Susan Bulloch. We're doing a Jumpstart on Domino Administration (technically two sessions, since we're doing a repeat of the Jumpstart right after the first one), and a session in the infrastructure track entitled "Leveraging AdminP in Domino 6.x". I don't know how many people have registered for the Jumpstarts, but I do know that the AdminP session is in the biggest room at the conference, so make sure you show up and fill up those seats!

I'll also be participating in the Lotus blogging community BOF and working with Susan for her BOF on Deploying Notes and Domino 6.5. I'm going to squeeze in Ed's "The Boss Loves Microsoft - Where Does That Leave Lotus?" session (always a good one) and the history of Notes panel, and most other times I'll be in the Meet the Developers Lab. So, if you want to say hi, ask a question, or bring me some snacks, stop by!

The whole schedule can be viewed here and full Lotusphere information is here.


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Posted by: Kathleen McGivney at: 03:42:23 PM
Location: Los Angeles, CA