Allen Kinsel - SQL DBA

What does Karaoke have to do with PASS?

 

Luckily, having a moral opposition to karaoke does not preclude you from attending the summit of from volunteering to help SQLPASS grow.  We'll take anyone who wants to help anytime you're willing (more on that tomorrow). 

 

After a long day of stuffing our brains full of SQL gold, quite a few PASS Summit attendees decided to head out to bush garden for Karaoke,  a little bit All they had of Jaeger and to blow off a little steam.  As we have proven year after year, if you mix SQL Geeks, Jaeger, and a karaoke machine you never know whats going to happen.   

After attending my first Karaoke night at SQLPASS in Seattle 06 I realized that a very important piece of the PASS Summit value proposition is in these evening/night time events, they allow you to see that we are all (no matter our stature in the SQL community) Just HUMAN SQL Geeks, and for the most part everyone is very approachable.  Watch the attached video, and tell me that you'd have any trouble at all walking up to Josh the next day to talk about SQL, the only problem might be keeping from laughing at with him about the night before.  After spending an evening with an entire group of these guys/gals you realize that its no big deal to walk up and talk to any them when you see them in the hall the next day at the summit, or while looking for a place to eat lunch, or wherever your paths cross. It works as a great «reason» to talk to your fellow attendees, and has a side effect of creating this amazing thing that we Techies always call «your network»

PASS After Dark

For todays episode of PASS Summit 09 after dark we have Josh Crosby aka SQLCrotch (blog/twitter)  up on the mic. 

«off beat and off key, its not easy to do»