As I mentioned in an earlier post (I know, way earlier), I was honored to speak again at PASS Summit, the first virtual one. First of all, the PASS team worked their collective tails off to make sure everything went smoothly.
I KNOW there were technical difficulties. I felt them myself. I KNOW my demos were a little hard (more than a little) to see on the darned window that wouldn’t expand. For that, I’m sorry. I used Zoomit in my demos and tried to expand as much as possible, but even Zoomit couldn’t overcome a fixed window size.
I read my session evaluations, and I thank everyone who took the time to submit one. I can only get better if you tell me what you think. I certainly don’t know everything, but I do try to be a clear, honest, and interesting speaker. If I’m not doing that, tell me that! (like my cat)
It wasn’t the same as being there. I missed all the friends and the parties and the live sessions, but I STILL HAD A GOOD TIME! I woke up at 0430 HRS two days in a row to see Ben Weissman talk about Big Data Clusters and again to see the PowerShell panel with a number of very good chaps (and friends) speaking about another topic near and dear to my heart! I stayed up late to support other friends and fellow speakers giving their all for the conference. The highlight was probably when Argenis was letting everyone know how storage agnostic he really is, and we had Rob Sewell and Sir Glenn Berry and my dear friend Heidi Hasting all having a great time laughing and joking in the chat window.
I think it’s important to support the community no matter what. We’re all in this together and it’s so very enriching for all of us to reach out and help each other. Do your part and help someone during this stressful time. Maybe mention a new opportunity to someone or share their post on LinkedIn or have a chat with them via your favorite messaging tool. It’s a big and small world at the same time and there’s lot of REALLY interesting people out there.
