Comments on: The PASS Summit Location Survey Results

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Sat, 17 Apr 2010 08:22:17 +0000

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By: Brent Ozar

Brent Ozar — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:09:20 +0000

Meir – thanks, but I don’t have the patience to put up with what the Board members have to put up with. I really admire their patience and tolerance. I can handle those kinds of meetings for a certain amount of time, but there comes a point where I just say, “Alright, lemme tell you how it’s gonna be.” Hahaha.

I don’t mind doing meetings like that at work, but I definitely don’t want to do them in my spare time!

By: Meir Dudai

Meir Dudai — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:10:11 +0000

I totally agree with the reasons for coming to PASS – it’s more to mingle with others and less about speaking with MS guys.
Considering the fact that PASS speakers are mostly independent speakers from the community (i hope i’m correct here – didn’t do a scientific research…) as opposed to MS Teched, i don’t see any problem moving it to east cost at least every other year.

Brent, it would be great to see you in PASS board one day, i really think you can make a difference.

By: John Sansom

John Sansom — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:50:23 +0000

Just to add a non US perspective if I may.

Given that I will be/would be travelling from the UK to the United States for the PASS Summit, the location really does not make that much of difference to me given that I will be travelling half way around the globe to attend anyway.

For me the summit is all about the opportunity to meet, learn from and share DBA war stories with the broadest range of SQL Server community professionals possible. So long as the location can nurture this, I’ll go pretty much anywhere……well almost.