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Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – Bloggers Meetup

Sep 6, 2012 / By Alex Gorbachev

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Oracle OpenWorld Bloggers Meetup Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is just over a month away and yes we are organizing the Annual Oracle Bloggers Meetup — one of your top favorite events of the OpenWorld.

What: Oracle Bloggers Meetup 2012

When: Wed, 3-Oct-2012, 5:30pm

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


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. There will also be some cool swag for the blogger.

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 were 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. This year we expect large attendance from APEX meet up group as well. We estimate to gather have around 150 bloggers.

See the results of last 2010 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.

Speaking about blogging… The winner of the last year’s competition on the best and most creative coverage introducing the most bloggers met at the meetup is… drum roll please… Bjoern Rost with the #oow11 blogger meetup blog post:

Looking forward to seeing even more of you again this year! Our big helpers this year are Vanessa Simmons and Maryanne Birksted behind the scene from Pythian marketing forces.

84 comments on “Oracle OpenWorld 2012 – Bloggers Meetup”

  1. Bjoern on said:

    first blood: COUNT ME IN

  2. Vanessa Simmons on said:

    Of course I wouldn’t miss it for the world. COUNTING MYSELF IN!

  3. Leighton on said:

    COUNT ME IN

  4. Rene Antunez on said:

    Count me in

  5. Eddie Awad on said:

    Count me in. Looking forward to meeting you all.

  6. Gwen Shapira on said:

    Meee! Meee! Meeeee!!!!!

  7. Karl Arao on said:

    Count me in :)

  8. Kevin Closson on said:

    Please count me in

  9. Roel Hartman on said:

    COUNT ME IN!!

  10. John E. Bredehoft on said:

    Unfortunately, I will not be at Oracle OpenWorld this year, but I’m impressed by the numbers – 150! I’m glad that OTN is continuing to help with this.

  11. Arjen Visser on said:

    One of the best events at OOW. Count me in!

  12. Debra Lilley on said:

    count me in

  13. Stanley ACE Director on said:

    COUNT ME IN although I am guessing I am the VIP guest

  14. Kamran Agayev A. on said:

    Count me in, I’ll be there
    Looking forward to meeting you all there

  15. Fahd Mirza on said:

    Would it be ok if I join in too please? :)

  16. Kent Graziano on said:

    Count me in!

  17. Paul Vallee on said:

    I’ll be there of course! Looking forward to it tremendously.

  18. Dan McGhan on said:

    Count me in – looking forward to it!

  19. Eugene Fedorenko on said:

    Count me in ;)

  20. Ultan (Oracle Apps-UX) on said:

    I’ll be there.

  21. Ultan (Oracle Apps-UX) on said:

    I’ll be there!

  22. Mark Heckler on said:

    Count me in! Look forward to meeting you all there.

  23. Jonathan Lewis on said:

    COUNT ME IN

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  25. Øyvind Isene on said:

    COUNT ME IN, please – looking forward to this

  26. David Kurtz on said:

    I’ll be there.

  27. Frits Hoogland on said:

    Count me in too!

  28. Todd Sheetz on said:

    Count me in!

  29. Steve Lemme on said:

    Look forward

  30. Brendan Tiereny on said:

    COUNT ME IN

  31. Tim Hall on said:

    I’m in! Cheers Tim…

  32. joel garry on said:

    We do not use meetups any more.

  33. Martin Nash on said:

    I’m in.

  34. Kashif Manzoor on said:

    COUNT ME IN
    thanks, Kashif

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  36. Philippe Fierens on said:

    count me in !!

  37. @GregRahn on said:

    I may be inclined to make an appearance.

  38. Doug Burns on said:

    COUNT ME IN

  39. Mia Urman on said:

    Me and Yossi will be there :)

  40. Marco Gralike on said:

    Will be there ;-)

  41. Carlos Sierra on said:

    COUNT ME IN

  42. Chris Muir on said:

    I might work for the big beast now, but I’m still a blogger at heart.
    COUNT ME IN!

  43. Sean hull on said:

    Count me in!

  44. Sunthar Tharma on said:

    Great idea. I am in. $unthar….

  45. Mike Riley on said:

    Count me in…

    Thanks, Mike

  46. Alex nuijten on said:

    I’ll be there.

  47. Sunthar Tharma on said:

    Great idea. I am in.

  48. Anand Akela on said:

    I will be there as well.

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  50. luc bors on said:

    COUNT ME IN. I’ll be there !

  51. David Haimes on said:

    COUNT ME IN

  52. Jennie Vickers on said:

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  53. Iouri "Yury" Chadour on said:

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  54. Jan van Zoggel on said:

    COUNT ME IN :)

  55. Fuad Arshad on said:

    I will Be There

  56. Stuart on said:

    COUNT ME IN!

  57. ajayc47 on said:

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    @ajayc47

  58. Enrique Orbegozo on said:

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  59. Julian Dontcheff on said:

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    count me in

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  64. Isa on said:

    Please count me in. Thank you!

  65. James vliet on said:

    You can count me in

  66. jeff harris on said:

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  67. Kellyn Pot'Vin on said:

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  72. wes fang on said:

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  73. Aaron Rosenbaum on said:

    I’ll be there.

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  77. John Russell on said:

    Count me in!

  78. Ben Prusinski on said:

    Count me in for the best party at OOW this year!

  79. Ben Prusinski on said:

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  80. Giuseppe Maxia on said:

    I will attend!

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