A Conference is About Community
I’ve been watching with interest a great series of posts over on Pamela Dingle’s blog. It all began when Pamela tried to get a blogger pass for the RSA conference. What really caught my eye, though, was James McGovern’s response – specifically, “Achieving the goal of educating attendees is never the goal of those who […]

3 Free Tix to the Glue Conference
How timely of Rick Burnes to post his Trade Show Trouble cartoon. It expresses my feelings about large trade shows and conferences – am I suffering from acute conferencitis? Yes, large shows are half-dead nowadays – but some conferences are worth attending even in bad times. The Glue Conference on May 12-13th in Denver may […]

The Dangers of Early “Formalization”
If you’ve been watching cloud computing at all, you’ve undoubtedly seen the whole brouhaha over the Open Cloud manifesto. I won’t recount it here, mostly because – frankly – I can’t tell what’s actually going on there anymore. So and so said one thing, while thanking so and so, who declined to comment on three […]

A Quick Intro to GlueCon
When Zoli Erdos first asked me if I’d be willing to write some guest posts on CloudAve around the topic of Glue Conference, I was actually a bit hesitant. After all, Zoli’s done such a great job of explaining why he likes the conferences I run, and what Gluecon is about, that I wasn’t sure […]

Glue – Get Sticky Now
What is Glue? Definition from the Merriam-Webster Dictionary: 1 a: any of various strong adhesive substances ; especially : a hard protein chiefly gelatinous substance that absorbs water to form a viscous solution with strong adhesive properties and that is obtained by cooking down collagenous materials (as hides or bones) b: a solution of […]