I am excited to be back in the Show and Tell track again this year at IBM Connect (for my friends outside the IBM world IBM Connect is the conference formerly known as Lotusphere).
Making Traveler Highly Available: Part 1 Traveler Design
So, you have IBM Notes Traveler deployed in your organization.  Deployed quickly, easily and at minimal cost to you.  Of course now  is has become mission critical and that’s your problem but with Upgrade Pack 1, released last year, you can now provide  High Availability.  In this session Mitch Cohen and Chris Whisonant will take a typical traveler environment, upgrade it to UP1, then deploy it in a highly available mode, demonstrating how HA works, how to manage your users and Servers and how to handle outages.
For the past four years following the Lotusphere Closing General Session, the Blogger Open has taken place at the Disney Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf Course.  If you are not sure what the Blogger Open is was you can find out all about it here.
I am sorry to announce that the Blogger Open is done, history, finished. Why you may ask? Simply put I can not come to an agreement with the folks at Disney to run the event this year,
The facts are as follows:
Disney will not (for any price) grant us exclusive use of the course
Disney insists on interspersing families among our group
Disney loves the beer sales generated by the Blogger Open (they sell in a few hours what they usually sell in month)
Disney receives complaints from the families they insist on putting out on the course among us
The fact is 75 geeks, sleep deprived for a week, drinking beer, having fun after a week attending a conference, while meaning no harm, simply does not mix well with families vacation at Disney.
As a father of 3 small children I can appreciate that, and while I can not understand why Disney refuses to rent us the course, I will not make commitments to the Disney folks that are unrealistic.