GemStone BOF at Smalltalk Solutions 2006

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norm Green
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:32 PM
>
> The GemStone Engineering Team is pleased to host a "Birds of a Feather"
> (BOF) session at STS 2006 at 6 pm on Tuesday April 25. The room for the  
> BOF
> is currently TBD - we will post signs on Monday.
>
> I will give a short presentation about our new GemStone S/64 product -  
> the
> 64 bit version of our Smalltalk object database, followed by a Q&A  
> session.
>
> After the BOF (7 pm or so), we're planning to head uptown to one of
> Toronto's best brewpubs the Granite Brewery http://www.granitebrewery.ca/
> for beers and dinner.  If you can't make the BOF, you can still come to  
> the
> brewpub. In fact the brewpub session is open to everyone. The easiest way
> for us to get to the Granite is to take the subway as a group -- downtown
> Toronto traffic can be formidable.
>
> We know the time of the GemStone BOF will conflict with the coding  
> content
> and probably with other BOFs. We tried and failed to find a time that
> wouldn't conflict with other events. At a show this large, schedule
> conflicts are unfortunate but unavoidable.
> Hope to see you in Toronto!!
> Norm Green
> Director of Engineering
> GemStone Systems Inc.
> http://www.gemstone.com
>
>
>
>
>

> It seems that there is no practical way of avoiding a conflict between
> the  Gemstone BOF and the Packaging BOF including the suggested get
> together  after the Gemstone BOF at a local micro brewery
> pub/restaurant. Room  availability for the BOF starts at 5:30 PM. So
> we could schedule the  Packaging BOF either starting at 5:30PM or at
> 6:00 PM on the same day i.e.  Tuesday.
>
> I think we need a consensus from those that expressed interest on the  
> Packaging BOF on the start time since obviously what may work for me
> may  not work for the rest i.e. we need a vote.
>
> So does 6PM on Tuesday work?
>
> As far as to the micro brew expedition perhaps we all can agree to
> meet at  particular spot at the conference venue and then take public  
> transportation from there.
>
> BTW, what's the deal with using American currency? i.e. can we pay
> using  U.S. cash? I would expect we could.

>
> -Charles
>
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 22:20:21 -0400, Boris Popov
> <[hidden email]>  wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Norm Green
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 3:32 PM
>>
>> The GemStone Engineering Team is pleased to host a "Birds of a Feather"
>> (BOF) session at STS 2006 at 6 pm on Tuesday April 25. The room for
>> the  BOF
>> is currently TBD - we will post signs on Monday.
>>
>> I will give a short presentation about our new GemStone S/64 product
>> -  the
>> 64 bit version of our Smalltalk object database, followed by a Q&A  
>> session.
>>
>> After the BOF (7 pm or so), we're planning to head uptown to one of
>> Toronto's best brewpubs the Granite Brewery
>> http://www.granitebrewery.ca/
>> for beers and dinner.  If you can't make the BOF, you can still come
>> to  the
>> brewpub. In fact the brewpub session is open to everyone. The easiest
>> way
>> for us to get to the Granite is to take the subway as a group --
>> downtown
>> Toronto traffic can be formidable.
>>
>> We know the time of the GemStone BOF will conflict with the coding  
>> content
>> and probably with other BOFs. We tried and failed to find a time that
>> wouldn't conflict with other events. At a show this large, schedule
>> conflicts are unfortunate but unavoidable.
>> Hope to see you in Toronto!!
>> Norm Green
>> Director of Engineering
>> GemStone Systems Inc.
>> http://www.gemstone.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>

> It seems that there is no practical way of avoiding a conflict between
> the Gemstone BOF and the Packaging BOF including the suggested get
> together after the Gemstone BOF at a local micro brewery pub/restaurant.
> Room availability for the BOF starts at 5:30 PM. So we could schedule
> the Packaging BOF either starting at 5:30PM or at 6:00 PM on the same
> day i.e. Tuesday.
>
> I think we need a consensus from those that expressed interest on the
> Packaging BOF on the start time since obviously what may work for me may
> not work for the rest i.e. we need a vote.
>
> So does 6PM on Tuesday work?

> Charles A. Monteiro wrote:
>> It seems that there is no practical way of avoiding a conflict between  
>> the Gemstone BOF and the Packaging BOF including the suggested get  
>> together after the Gemstone BOF at a local micro brewery  
>> pub/restaurant. Room availability for the BOF starts at 5:30 PM. So we  
>> could schedule the Packaging BOF either starting at 5:30PM or at 6:00  
>> PM on the same day i.e. Tuesday.
>>  I think we need a consensus from those that expressed interest on the  
>> Packaging BOF on the start time since obviously what may work for me  
>> may not work for the rest i.e. we need a vote.
>>  So does 6PM on Tuesday work?
>
> I would very much like to attend the packaging BOF. However, I really  
> ought to go to the GemStone BOF, so 6PM Tuesday doesn't work well for me.
>
> We could have the BOF on Wednesday evening (some folks might be already  
> gone) or on Monday evening.
>
> On Monday evening there's a STIC meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 in the  
> conference center. Personally, I can skip that more easily than I can  
> skip the GemStone BOF. It's possible (though I don't know how likely)  
> that we can convince the conference to give us another room in the  
> conference center for that same time period.
>
> Or, we could meet at an off-conference site (like a restaurant, coffee  
> shop, brewpub, or hotel lobby) either during or after the STIC meeting.
>
>
> -Martin

> I too would like to attend both BOFs but I ought to attend the Packaging
> BOF. I possibly can make it after the STIC meeting on Monday but probably
> not before since I am arriving late Monday afternoon. I also could make it
> on Wednesday nite. I am up for  an off-conference site especially if food,
> beer and coffee are available. In that case we could rely on handouts from
> whomever wants to make an official presentation i.e. something that would
> have required overhead projection.
>
> So anybody else? So far it seems that Martin and I are grabbing a
> capuccino at the local Canadian Starbucks wanna be :)
>
> -Charles
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:12:43 -0400, Martin McClure
>
> <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > Charles A. Monteiro wrote:
> >> It seems that there is no practical way of avoiding a conflict between
> >> the Gemstone BOF and the Packaging BOF including the suggested get
> >> together after the Gemstone BOF at a local micro brewery
> >> pub/restaurant. Room availability for the BOF starts at 5:30 PM. So we
> >> could schedule the Packaging BOF either starting at 5:30PM or at 6:00
> >> PM on the same day i.e. Tuesday.
> >>  I think we need a consensus from those that expressed interest on the
> >> Packaging BOF on the start time since obviously what may work for me
> >> may not work for the rest i.e. we need a vote.
> >>  So does 6PM on Tuesday work?
> >
> > I would very much like to attend the packaging BOF. However, I really
> > ought to go to the GemStone BOF, so 6PM Tuesday doesn't work well for me.
> >
> > We could have the BOF on Wednesday evening (some folks might be already
> > gone) or on Monday evening.
> >
> > On Monday evening there's a STIC meeting from 5:30 to 7:30 in the
> > conference center. Personally, I can skip that more easily than I can
> > skip the GemStone BOF. It's possible (though I don't know how likely)
> > that we can convince the conference to give us another room in the
> > conference center for that same time period.
> >
> > Or, we could meet at an off-conference site (like a restaurant, coffee
> > shop, brewpub, or hotel lobby) either during or after the STIC meeting.
> >
> >
> > -Martin