January 11th, 2011
Hosting GURUpalooza at Lotusphere 2011
Yes, OK - I know what you're thinking. What is GURUpalooza? Isn't the nerdfest called Lotusphere a GURUpalooza all week? Well, yes and no. There are gurus and near-gurus running all over the place there. Some are IBMers, some are not. Some get up on stage, some hide in the labs and wait for you to find them. But for the past several years, GURUpalooza has been a place where attendees and speakers alike show up to try and stump some experts. It features NON-IBM speakers from the Best Practice, Jump Start and Show n Tell tracks.
These GURUs are people who work with the Lotus products, who come onsite for you as consultants and integrators and repair crews. They don't write the code, but they know how to extend it, to make it work better and generally make your work life easier.
Enough though - this crowd doesn't need encouragement - they are NOT shy, they don't need praise and they will hurt each other to get onstage to answer your questions. The answers they give can be interesting. They are not afraid to give opinions that we IBMers might not give. Its a 'must see' session.
This year, I've been the Track Manager for the Best Practices track. (Frankly its a lot harder than I thought it would be, but that's another post). My civilian counterpart and traditional host, Rocky Oliver can't make it to Lotusphere this year, so he left me an incredible responsibility - that of Host, moderator, zookeeper and chief stage manager for GURUpalooza 2011, the sequel. I want to invite all the attendees who aren't attending other sessions to trundle over to the Swan for the spectacle,
Date: Thursday, Feb 3
Time: 10:00 AM
Place: Swan 5-10
Link: GURUpalooza
You've gotten an email from me if you're expected onstage - either your speaker letter or an email this week. For GURUs who didn't qualify this year to sit onstage, I invite you to sit on or near the front row in the bullpen . If the panel is stumped, I will call on the bullpen to answer.
I promise nothing other than great answers, great fun and really good take home information. Use your Lotusphere session database to add this to your already crowded schedule!
