PASS Summit Week! Day Five: Mama, I’m Coming Home

It’s PASS Summit Time!


This week, I’m dedicating all my blog content to PASS Summit. Why? Because I’m here and it seems stupid to not talk about that.

Oh dear, it’s Friday, and I’ve got a plane to catch. I suppose I should post some thoughts from the week. Hey, has anyone seen my sneakers?

All updates will be under this line. Hit refresh once in a while. Enjoy the show.

Livefeed!


What a great week here in Seattle. The conference was a grand whirlwind of catching up with old friends as usual, but I was really wowed by the number of first time attendees.

If you missed the announcement, Red Gate said during their keynote that there will be a bunch of mini-PASS events coming up too. If the main thing keeping you away from Seattle is travel, I’d encourage you to check out the others when they happen. They’ll be happening in Dallas, NYC, and Amsterdam. I’ll be at as many as they’ll have me for. Speaking to many attendees, they say that if they weren’t local to the area they’d never be able to go. This may be your chance to get involved in a far more convenient location.

It can be difficult to describe the value of attending these things, and I’m somewhat terrible at marketing pitches. But what has struck me over the years is that I’ve become friends with everyone I started off idolizing. It’s quite an exceptional community that has been built up over the years and events like these make me happy and honored to be a part of it.

Every time someone says hello, thanks me for something, wants to take a picture, and especially when they seek me out to ask me a question, it really reinforces the reach that being a part of this community gives. It doesn’t take much to share something that helps many people in great ways.

Anyway, my place is taking off. See you all next time around.

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