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• Portfolio changeover time for the PASS board

  The last PASS board meeting for the year has happened, and the portfolio handovers are well under way. Sadly, having new board members elected means having existing board members step down, and this last board meeting was the last one for both Allen Kinsel Read More... Posted Friday, December 28, 2012 4:13 PM by Rob Farley | 1 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, sql saturday, sqlpass

• 24 Hours of PASS coming up soon!

  Massive thanks to all the people that have been shouting about this event already. I’ve seen quite a number of blog posts about it, and rather than listing some and missing others, please assume I’ve noticed your blog and accept my thanks. But in case Read More... Posted Sunday, September 09, 2012 10:45 PM by Rob Farley | 0 Comments Filed under: 24hop, sqlpass

• 24 Hours of PASS – first reflections

  A few days after the end of 24HOP, I find myself reflecting on it. I’m still waiting on most of the information. I want to be able to discover things like where the countries represented on each of the sessions, and things like that. So far, I have the Read More... Posted Monday, March 26, 2012 2:03 PM by Rob Farley | 2 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, professional development, sql, sqlpass

• 24 hours to pass until 24 Hours of PASS

  There’s a bunch of stuff going on at the moment in the SQL world, so if you’ve missed this particular piece of news, let me tell you a bit about it. Twice a year, the SQL community puts on its biggest virtual event – 24 Hours of PASS. And the next one Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2012 12:03 PM by Rob Farley | 1 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, professional development, sql, sqlpass

• 24 Hours of PASS

  Hooray – we’re ready to announce the details of the 24 Hours of PASS event that’s coming to an internet connection near you on March 21st! Read on for the day’s schedule, some of my thoughts on the 24 Hours of PASS concept, information about the platform, Read More... Posted Friday, February 17, 2012 8:32 AM by Rob Farley | 2 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, sqlpass

• More free training from PASS

  Yeah, alright. I know PASS puts on heaps of free training all the time. There are meetings around the world all the time, as held by hundreds of chapters. Seriously, there’s over 240 chapters in the world. If you figure that they typically have a 2 hour Read More... Posted Thursday, September 01, 2011 1:26 AM by Rob Farley | 4 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, professional development, sql, sqlpass

• New PASS Summit speakers that deserve votes

  I’m not going to ask you to vote for the abstracts that I submitted for the PASS Summit . I’m not even going to mention the abstracts that Roger and Ashley submitted . I figure if you’re reading this, you may have already read the post I wrote about them, Read More... Posted Thursday, May 19, 2011 3:35 PM by Rob Farley | 3 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, sql, sqlbits, sqlpass

• How many people will be with you during 24HOP?

  In less than a week, SQLPASS hosts another 24 Hours of PASS event , this time with an array of 24 female speakers (in honour of this month being Women’s History Month ). Interestingly, the committee has had a few people ask if there are rules about how Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 09, 2011 6:58 PM by Rob Farley | 2 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, professional development, sqlpass

• 24 Hours of PASS scheduling

  I have a new appreciation for Tom LaRock ( @sqlrockstar ), who is doing a tremendous job leading the organising committee for the 24 Hours of PASS event (Twitter: #24hop ). We’ve just been going through the list of speakers and their preferences for time Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 26, 2011 1:44 PM by Rob Farley | 6 Comments Filed under: 24hop, community, sqlpass