This time last week, I was in Montreal, attending the highly recommended SharePoint Summit 2009. I gave a 3.5 hour tutorial on installing and customizing SharePoint. It was a scary subject on many levels. I’m not really a SharePoint admin, but I know enough to give a tutorial on the subject. (Nashiriki, Geoff Schaller from Software Objectives in Australia, among a few others, was in the crowd to answer some of the deeper questions [I don’t know what they put in the water down there, but we need some of it here in the U.S.]).

Lakini, back to many levels of scariness… It had a lot of potential to be very boring. I actually installed WSS and then upgraded it to MOSS. In front of a room full of people. Canadian poeple. There were long 5 na 7 minute gaps where we were watching the installation process chug along. I needed to fill that time with something useful and interesting. I’m not sure I succeeded.

Hatimaye, it was loooong. Three and one half hours. That’s a long presentation. I made a little joke of it, saying “We have a long presentation ahead of us. Three and one half hours. That’s 210 dakika. And I don’t even know how many minutes that is in Canadian.”

Everyone laughed and as a result, Montreal ni rasmi kwenye orodha yangu nzuri Maeneo 🙂

Even if they hadn’t laughed at my joke, I would love Montreal. I try very hard to be open minded and not take my cues from South Park, but I admit, to my chagrin, that I had no idea how great is the metropolis of Montreal. I can’t wait to go back in a few months, when it’s a little warmer, to visit again.

On a sort of related note, I also sat through Erik Swenson’s first public presentation entitled “IA and Branding Process: Sketches to Wireframes to Hi-Fidelity Designs.” (Erik is my EMC colleague). Check out the abstract here: http://www.sharepointsummit2009.com/conference_day2.htm. I even recorded it for for him. I tried several times for some “action shots” and zoomed in on him when he paused to drink some water. I didn’t always succeed, lakini mimi walijaribu 🙂

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