Karla Landrum's Posts - TechHui2024-03-28T15:39:01ZKarla Landrumhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/KarlaLandrumhttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/353372827?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.techhui.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=3d9rk4a6n82ay&xn_auth=noIt’s Official! SQL Saturday #72 Honolulu, Hawaii is On The Map!tag:www.techhui.com,2011-01-13:1702911:BlogPost:718862011-01-13T18:46:56.000ZKarla Landrumhttp://www.techhui.com/profile/KarlaLandrum
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">April 1<sup>st</sup> will be the first ever Hawaiian</font> <a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/72/eventhome.aspx"><b><font face="Calibri" size="3">SQL Saturday</font></b></a> <font face="Calibri" size="3">in beautiful Honolulu. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is the first SQL Saturday for the islands there, but it is also the first SQL Saturday in history to be held outside of the mainland…</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">April 1<sup>st</sup> will be the first ever Hawaiian</font> <a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/72/eventhome.aspx"><b><font face="Calibri" size="3">SQL Saturday</font></b></a> <font face="Calibri" size="3">in beautiful Honolulu. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only is the first SQL Saturday for the islands there, but it is also the first SQL Saturday in history to be held outside of the mainland (notice I didn’t add USA to that, as there is an event happening in Vancouver on Feb 26<sup>th</sup>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Special thanks to Jeff Bloom, one of the krewe of the</font> <a href="http://www.hawaiidotnet.org/SitePages/Home.aspx"><b><font face="Calibri" size="3">.NET Users Group</font></b></a> <font face="Calibri" size="3">there in Hawaii for locking down the venue,</font> <a href="http://www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu/"><b><font face="Calibri" size="3">Honolulu Community College</font></b></a><font face="Calibri" size="3">, which has so generously offered the venue for FREE for our event, SWEET!</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Now I know by now you are already looking at the calendar and saying, “What, a SQL Saturday on a Friday?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Yes, we had to concede to a Friday event primarily for two reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> The HCC only has security until 2:00 on Saturdays, and the bigger reason, they turn off the air conditioning in the buildings at noon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> (Plus there is the argument that who would want to give up a Saturday in Hawaii!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> If you know your SQL Sat history, then you know this won’t be the first SQL Saturday held on a Friday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> SQL Saturday #58 was held on a Friday in Minnesota and had a turnout of over 200, so we are confident that a Friday event will do well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> And besides, what better reason to ask for the day off from work…free training that benefits their companies, what employer would say no to that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> With what sounds like to be the most expensive place to live, free training should be welcomed by these employers there.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Now you are also probably realizing that there are two other SQL Saturdays happening that weekend, Boston and Dallas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> We really did try to avoid this weekend, not because we felt there would be conflict for attendees, but for those who had already expressed interest in speaking at Hawaii’s event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> But unfortunately we had to go with what we could get, so we realize we will lose some great speakers to these other two events as those locations will of course be more cost effective for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Luckily this date did work out for Buck Woody</font> <span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">(</span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: #4f81bd; font-size: 8.5pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;"><a href="http://buckwoody.com/"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;">blog</span></b></a></span><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;">|</span><a href="http://twitter.com/#!/buckwoody"><b><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: #4f81bd; font-size: 10pt; mso-themecolor: accent1;">twitter</span></b></a><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; color: black; font-size: 10pt;">)</span><font size="3"><font face="Calibri">, as he is presenting a full day pre-con for us the day before the event.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></font></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">For those still interested in presenting in Honolulu, note, there will only be 3 tracks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Two devoted to SQL and one devoted to Developers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> For those traveling over, we will do our best to give you at least two timeslots, so if you do register to speak, please post up more than one abstract.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> For speakers being sent by a sponsor of the event, we will guarantee you at least two timeslots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> We of course are very interested in local speakers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> If you are local to Hawaii and are interested in speaking, please register on the</font> <a href="http://www.sqlsaturday.com/72/callforspeakers.aspx"><b><font face="Calibri" size="3">website</font></b></a><font face="Calibri" size="3">, but also DM me on twitter (@karlakay22).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Sponsors, we will have the sponsorship details posted over the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> We plan to make it very affordable for our sponsors, as we hope that you will consider actually coming over or sending someone to represent your company.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Time to get cranking on the website!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> Hope to see some of you there!</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><font face="Calibri" size="3">Mahalo!</font></p>