We've tried to expand the symposium to the US for years. Great idea. The problem is cost: too much competition for the dollars in other conferences. And Oxford is unique: they have a very reasonable place for attendees to stay. What we need on this side of the pond is a similar University setting. We've thought Cornell would be the logical spot, but even that doesn't work well due to the cost. Paul Zarnowksi is an avid attendee of Oxford and we discuss their hosting the US event each time.
How many US based folks would attend a TSM Symposium somewhere on our continent if it cost $1500 for three days, plus travel? The answer is surprisingly few: not enough to make it economically viable for a private company to host. STORServer would love to host such an event if we didn't have to lose our a**es to do it! On another note: there isn't any place in the US that's as much fun as Oxford in September. If you haven't gone, make an effort to go. Though, alas, this may well be the last one. We've heard that before, but Sheelagh is threatening retirement (well deserved I might add) and without a sponsor of her talent, these sorts of things never happen. The amount of effort required in unspeakable. Most of us would blanch. Kelly J. Lipp VP Manufacturing & CTO STORServer, Inc. 485-B Elkton Drive Colorado Springs, CO 80907 719-266-8777 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allen S. Rout Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 11:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM Oxford Symposium >> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:05:27 -0400, Mahesh Tailor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Check out http://www.share.org. This conference usually has the same > type of topics. SHARE is an entirely adequate second place. Beware: it's aggressively, even angrily, mainframe-centric. They've chewed up and spat out several attempts to generate a unix-centric "project". TSM as an application gets a pass because (IMO) 1) It started out on the mainframe 2) We don't talk all that much about the underlying OS 3) It's a very popular product. Those are in order of importance. :) If you go to it with this in mind, and an appropriately humble second-class-citizen sort of attitude, you can get a lot of good out of the conference. Just think of yourself as a registered Christian in the Ottoman empire. Of course, we could put on a symposium on this side of the pond in the even years, if Sheelagh doesn't plan to expand... - Allen S. Rout
