Episode 91 recorded on Friday 1st March 2012. Mat Newman and Theo Heselmans join Darren and I to discuss the upcoming BLUG and AUSLUG user groups, agenda highlights, key speakers and their related social events. I suffer from some impetuosity regarding upgrading my OS, and hours of bloopers ensue.
Oh yeah, and sorry for the delay in getting this out. Work, life, what balance 😉
[An update since the show – unfortunately I will not be attend BLUG due to family commitments and hence have had to cancel my speaker slot. Apologies to Theo and the team.]
Hosts
Stuart McIntyre (blog | twitter | company) & Darren Duke (blog | twitter | company)
Guests
Theo Heselmans (blog | twitter | BLUG) is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions. In 1993 he started working as a Notes/Domino consultant with version 3. He delighted (and still does) many customers with custom applications. For 4 years now, he is responsible for BLUG. Theo visits other LUGs regularly, and has been to 17 Lotusphere conferences. He is an avid believer in all things ‘Social’. He loves to talk about Notes, BLUG, Excel (and wine)!
Mat Newman (blog | twitter | company) is the Director of Education for ISW (an IBM Premier business partner in Australia). An IBM Notes user since 1992, Mat is an IBM Champion for Collaboration Solutions, owner of the coolest YELLOW suit around, friends with Lisa Duke, Sharon Bellamy and Femke Goedhart, and lately spending a lot of his time #Mythbusting. As you might notice in the bio pic, Mat is also partial to AS400’s 😉
Topics
‘You must be mad!’
Organisers of two of the biggest Lotus community groups worldwide
Hundreds of hours of effort given up free of charge
Stress of running large expensive events at you own risk
Why do you do it?
BLUG
When? March 22-23, Thursday-Friday
Where? Antwerp, Belgium, and all sessions are in English!
Keynote? Chris Crummey, Business Unit Executive at IBM and Lead Evangelist for Lotus
Who are other key speakers?
Alan Forbes, Bill Bucan, Bill Malchisky, Chris Miller, Devin Olson, Eamon Muldoon, Eileen Fitzgerald, Femke Goedhart, Florian Vogler, Frank van der Linden, Gabriella Davis, Howard Greenberg, Jess Stratton, John Beck, John Head, Kathy Brown, Luis Suarez, Martin Donnelly, Matthew Fyleman, Mikkel Heisterberg, Paul Mooney, Paul Withers, Rene Winkelmeyer, Rob Novak, Sean Cull, Steve McDonagh, Stuart McIntyre, Tim Clark, Tony McGuckin, Ulrich Krause, Warren Elsmore, Theo Heselmans, …
17 of which are IBM champions
* Other highlights
* Double sided badges with TwitterID and QR Code
* Large twitter wall #BLUG
* Social panel with Femke Goedhart, Luis Suarez and Stuart McIntyre
* Nerd Girls are repeating their successful Spark Ideas from Lotusphere with other topics/speakers
* Speedsponsoring: 18 booths, so fast talking is required. Paul Mooney hosting, Bill Buchan and Tim Clark are his assistants
* Something new: a developers’quiz: educational and fun...