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29 Mar 2012
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Oracle User Groups: Are you a member?

I love user groups.

Getting introduced and involved in them has made a huge difference in my career. If it was not for all the people I have met in the last 22+ years, my career, and life, would have been very different.

I have met hundreds (maybe thousands) of amazing people both from within Oracle Corp and outside. Many of them became, and remain, my friends. Which is why we all love to get together several times a year at various user group and industry events to catch up, exchange wars stories, and learn new things.

Right now, I am starting to prepare for one of my favorites – ODTUG KScope. I will be there presenting in June and  running my popular Morning Chi Gung class for the 2nd year in a row.

If you have not registered, get to it! Rooms are going fast and you want to be sure to stay at the conference resort (yes – resort, not hotel!).

And on the ODTUG front, they have just announced you can now join for just $99 a year. That is the best value you can find for the world’s best Oracle user group for Developers.

So are you in? Are you at member of at least one user group?

What? You don’t know which one to join?

Then check out this new cool site Oracle just put up with videos from some of the user group leaders. After that, check out their new User Group Central with information about Oracle user groups around the globe.

So get out there and meet some new people and learn some new things.

Come to KScope12.

Join a user group.

See you in San Antonio.

Kent

P.S. Don’t forget to submit an abstract for Oracle OpenWorld before the deadline passes. It will get you a free pass to the show (worth over $2000). Tell’em ODTUG and the Oracle Data Warrior sent you.

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14 Mar 2012
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Ready or Not – It’s Time to Submit an Abstract for Oracle Open World 2012

Yup, it sneaks up on you pretty fast.

Seems like only a few weeks ago I was in San Francisco at OOW 2011, and now it is already time to think about what to present in September.

This year, Oracle OpenWorld will take place September 30-October 5 at the Moscone Center, San Francisco.

If you are ready to go, the call for papers is here.

Important Date:

The Call for Papers will close at 11:59 p.m. PDT on Monday, April 9.

Not a lot of time to submit.

Again this year I am the OOW Content Coordinator for the Oracle Development Tools User Group (ODTUG), so I will be one of the people reviewing your submission.

If you are an ODTUG member and want to represent ODTUG at OOW 2012, this is your chance! On the abstract submission form, there are two user group related questions you need to answer.

First, be sure to indicate that you are a member of a user group.

Second indicate that you belong to or are submitting on behalf of Oracle Development Tools User Group. 

If you do not indicate ODTUG, we (well, me and a few others) will not be able to see your abstract or review it.

I hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to share your knowledge, experiences, and solutions with other developers. I look forward to reviewing the abstracts submitted by the ODTUG experts.

Key Point: If your abstract is accepted, you will receive a complimentary registration to Oracle OpenWorld (worth over $2,000 ).

Even if you do not want to present, you can learn more about OpenWorld here.

So start writing that abstract and submit before April 9th.

See you in San Francisco!

Kent

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24 Jan 2012

Hello Montreal!

Well, it took all day, but I am safely tucked away for the evening in my hotel (Le Meridien Versailles) in Montreal.  I am here for a three-day Data Vault Certification class.

I left Houston this morning, flew through Cleveland (CLE) and then to Burlington, Vermont. There, my good friend, Dan Linstedt, kindly picked me up at the airport and drove us across the border to Montreal, Canada (which took about 2 hours) and deposited me at my hotel. Dan lives north of Burlington and was coming this way anyhow (he is actually teaching the class I am attending). It was a great chance for us to catch up as we have not seen each other (face to face anyway) for quite a few years. Look for some big things from Dan in the coming months.

Monday night I prepared for the class by loading up my laptop with all the latest Oracle toys: SQL Developer Data Modeler Release 3.1 Early Adopter, SQL Developer Release 3.1 Early Adopter, and the Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 2 (AKA Oracle XE). These are all free tools and very easy to set up (even for a non-DBA like moi). With that I should be able to actually build out the examples in the class for real.

(Hmm…maybe I can use those for examples in my KScope 12 session…)

In any case, it should be a fun few days meeting some new people, seeing a new city (I have never been here before), and seeing what new techniques Dan has come with in the Data Vault arena.

Stay tuned this week as I plan to provide some updates each day on what I learned in the class. (You might want to click the “follow” button if you haven’t already)

If there are any questions you want me to ask Dan, leave them below in the comments.

 

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