Oracle OpenWorld 2011 — Bloggers Meetup

Isn’t that that time of the year again?

Yes, it is — it’s time for our annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup and of course Oracle is piggybacking OpenWorld with the meetup again! ;)

What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2011

When: Wed, 5-Oct-2011, 5:00pm

Where: Main Dining Room, Jillian’s Billiards @ Metreon, 101 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103 Please comment with “COUNT ME IN” if coming — we need to know the attendance numbers.

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See the “Main Dining Room” on the floor plan below (we will actually use half of it – we are too big now to fit into a smaller “Lower Dining Room”) and ask where is the “Oracle Bloggers Meetup” booked under Pythian / Oracle name. These are the keywords to find us easily.

We have selected Wednesday again before the big event at Treasure Island. It seems to be the ideal timing because most of attendees don’t plan anything else on that day while the rest of the evenings are filled with customer meetings, sponsored events and etc. Easy choice now!

Compared to last year, we are shifting it 30 minutes earlier because the Treasure Island event is starting 30 minutes earlier. I don’t think it will be a problem — most of the participants showed up before 5:30pm last year – you will have had enough of OpenWorld by 5pm this time.

Traditionally, Oracle Technology Network joins Pythian sponsoring the venue and drinks.

As usual, vintage t-shirts from previous meetups will make you look cool — feel free to wear them. This year’s activity is still being planned — we have lots of cool ideas and couldn’t decide which one is the coolest but if you have something interesting in mind — let me know privately {last_name} at pythian.com.

For those of you who don’t know the history… The Bloggers Meetups during the Oracle Open World were started by Mark Rittman and continued by Eddie Awad and then I picked up the flag in 2009. The meetups have been great success so let’s keep them this way! To give you an idea, here are the photos from the OOW08 Bloggers Meetup (courtesy of Eddie Awad) and last year’s meetup blog post update from myself.

While the initial meetings was mostly around Oracle database folks, the latest meetups are joined buy guys and gals from lots of Oracle technologies – Oracle database, MySQL, Applications, Sun technologies, Java and more. All bloggers are welcome.

See the results of last year’s meetup here and here follow all the links.

If you are planning to attend, please comment here with the phrase “COUNT ME IN”. This will help us make sure we have the attendance numbers right. Make sure you provide your blog URL with your comment — it’s a Bloggers Meetup in the end! Make sure you comment here if you are attending so that we have enough room, food and (most important) drinks. Last year we barely fit. Again, we are reserving a bigger room but we want to make sure we can fit everyone!

Of course, do not under any circumstances forget to blog and tweet about this year’s bloggers meetup.

Last, but not least, you should know that the real organizer of the event and the one doing all the heavy-lifting here is Vanessa Simmons – give her a pat on the back when you see her.

Looking forward to seeing even more of you again this year!

56 comments on “Oracle OpenWorld 2011 — Bloggers Meetup”

1. chet on September 9, 2011 at 9:57 pm said:

   wow…i don’t even merit a mention for my 37 posts on the subject last year? I’m sad now.

   And when did VS go brunette? You know, she’s a cheater right?

   Looking forward to it…thank for putting it together.

   chet

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   • Alex Gorbachev on September 11, 2011 at 8:23 am said:

     Aha… you didn’t follow the second “here” where your heroic blogging is mentioned. I know you wouldn’t – you knew it all anyway. :)

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2. Asif Momen on September 10, 2011 at 12:12 am said:

   COUNT ME IN

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3. Fuad Arshad on September 11, 2011 at 9:49 am said:

   Thanks for having this wonderful meetup again.
   i’ll be there

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4. Roel on September 11, 2011 at 1:35 pm said:

   COUNT ME IN as well!
   Looking orward to it. And very wise decision to get a bigger room, we could barely move last year due to the success of this event…

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5. Arjen Visser on September 13, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:

   COUNT ME IN

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6. Kellyn Pot'Vin on September 13, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:

   I’m going and will be competing with Chet for the most blog posts…Need to start training now…lots of finger exercises… :)

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7. Vanessa Simmons on September 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm said:

   COUNT ME IN (of course) – and Chet, this year, perhaps I’ll be the redhead…

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8. Kellyn Pot'Vin on September 13, 2011 at 5:35 pm said:

   For Alex- “COUNT ME IN”… :P

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9. Galo Balda on September 13, 2011 at 6:24 pm said:

   COUNT ME IN

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10. Gwen Shapira on September 13, 2011 at 10:51 pm said:

    Count me in!

    Weeee!!!

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11. Vit Spinka on September 14, 2011 at 2:24 am said:

    COUNT ME IN

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12. Oyvind Isene on September 14, 2011 at 5:03 am said:

    COUNT ME IN …
    Looking forward to see you twitter guys IRL

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13. Jacco H. Landlust on September 14, 2011 at 3:44 pm said:

    No OOW without bloggers meetup, so COUNT ME IN

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14. Chris Jones on September 15, 2011 at 11:54 am said:

    COUNT ME IN – again!

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15. Paola Pullas on September 15, 2011 at 5:07 pm said:

    Count me in :-)

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16. Syed Jaffer Hussain on September 16, 2011 at 12:17 pm said:

    Count me in too please.

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17. Eric Jenkinson on September 16, 2011 at 12:18 pm said:

    Count me in!

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18. Anand Akela on September 16, 2011 at 12:46 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

    Looking forward to it.

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19. Martin Nash on September 16, 2011 at 1:12 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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20. David Haimes on September 16, 2011 at 1:52 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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21. Vanessa Simmons on September 16, 2011 at 1:59 pm said:

    COUNTING GEORGE TRUJILLO IN!

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22. David Haimes on September 16, 2011 at 3:03 pm said:

    By the way, you forgot to mention that there are a lot of Oracle Apps bloggers attending these days as well as the various tech areas.

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    • Alex Gorbachev on September 16, 2011 at 3:42 pm said:

      I was trying hard not to forget anybody (which is nearly impossible for a short list with all Oracle technologies now). Specifically didn’t forget Apps folks – “Oracle database, MySQL, Applications, Sun technologies, Java and more. All bloggers are welcome.”

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23. Jeremy Schneider on September 16, 2011 at 3:40 pm said:

    count me in!

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24. Ultan O'Broin (One of those Apps Bloggers, flying flag for Ireland) on September 16, 2011 at 5:41 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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25. Dan McGhan on September 16, 2011 at 6:22 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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26. Marcus Vinicius Miguel Pedro on September 16, 2011 at 10:50 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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28. Martin Giffy D'Souza on September 18, 2011 at 10:38 pm said:

    Count me in! Looking forward to it.

    Martin

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29. Dsvolk on September 19, 2011 at 3:23 am said:

    COUNT ME IN. Please, please, please -)

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30. Giuseppe Maxia on September 22, 2011 at 5:21 am said:

    COUNT ME IN

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31. Sheeri K. Cabral on September 23, 2011 at 10:00 am said:

    count me in!

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    • Vanessa Simmons on September 23, 2011 at 12:29 pm said:

      Sheeri! Will be fab to see you again….

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32. Lisa Dobson on September 23, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:

    Count me in! Alex – I am so there. I hope there is beer, and bunny ears, and sheep :)

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    • Alex Gorbachev on September 23, 2011 at 6:52 pm said:

      I’ll ensure we have beers… you deliver bunny ears and sheeps!

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33. Raimonds on September 26, 2011 at 12:29 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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34. Iouri Chadour on September 27, 2011 at 12:29 am said:

    count me + 2 in.

    Thanks

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35. Iouri Chadour on September 27, 2011 at 12:31 am said:

    count me +2 in.

    See you there.

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36. Sten Vesterli on September 27, 2011 at 9:31 am said:

    COUNT ME IN

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37. Frits Hoogland on September 27, 2011 at 9:38 am said:

    Count me in!

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38. Frits Hoogland on September 27, 2011 at 9:44 am said:

    Count me in too!

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39. zeeshan baig on September 27, 2011 at 3:34 pm said:

    Count me in too

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41. Christian on September 29, 2011 at 6:54 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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42. Simon Haslam on September 30, 2011 at 2:53 am said:

    I’ve not blogged for well over a month so COUNT ME IN for some peanuts!

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43. John Black on September 30, 2011 at 11:34 am said:

    I’m in. I look forward to meeting you guys…and girls…whatever the hair color. ;)

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44. Iggy Fernandez on September 30, 2011 at 5:22 pm said:

    COUNT ME IN

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    • Vanessa Simmons on September 30, 2011 at 5:46 pm said:

      Glad to hear it Iggy! Was waiting to see that you’d be joining us. C U Wed if not before….

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45. Sunil S Ranka on October 3, 2011 at 1:19 am said:

    COUNT ME IN

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46. John E. Bredehoft on October 4, 2011 at 1:40 pm said:

    Unfortunately, count me out – I’m not at #oow11 this year. But I am following all of your updates from Moscone. Have a good meetup!!!

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47. neil callanan on October 4, 2011 at 5:29 pm said:

    “COUNT ME IN”is there a list to get on at the door does itstart at5pm

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48. Donart Young on October 4, 2011 at 6:54 pm said:

    Pls. count me in(side). Thanks!

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49. Marcelle on October 5, 2011 at 3:34 pm said:

    count me in please

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