The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

will.craddock — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:34:08 GMT

What no Regina...what gives! Come on boys!!!!

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re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Rick Claus — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:36:38 GMT

@will.craddock

Dude - you live in Ireland now. Nice to see you are still fighting the fight for Regina from across the pond.

Do you think we could get 300 attendees committed to attend from Regina?

Rick

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Derek Lewis — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:10:10 GMT

As an MCT I would like to see this event in HALIFAX, NS.

We always get overlooked, and yet we have some of the best I.T. people around.

Just because we didn't hop on the bus to go West doesn't mean we weren't good enough. We just made a lifestyle choice to stay home.

Derek Lewis

MCT/MCSE/... and all of that nonsense people need to write to make themselves important.

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Blake Heisler — Sat, 09 May 2009 01:42:24 GMT

Edmonton for sure, since Saskatchewan is getting overlooked (as usual) we're used to making the drive to attend events.

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Rob D. — Sat, 09 May 2009 19:52:51 GMT

Aren't there 8 people on your team? Did something happen to one of you? I hope you weren't impacted by layoffs or anything!

Rob Dloing

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Shane Q. — Mon, 11 May 2009 16:28:07 GMT

It's like Atlantic Canada is always last on everyone's mind...

Funny since in Fredericton,NB we were voted one of the most intllegent communities and one of the best places to live!

Having the Event in Halifax would make sense.. However.. Moncton would be more central for everyone if that's at all possible!

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Rick Claus — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:09:51 GMT

@Derek Lewis and @Blake Heisler,

Great comments guys. Make sure you have mailed them to damirb (at) Microsoft.com so that they count in the official tallies.

Rick

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Rick Claus — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:13:59 GMT

@Shane Q.

You make a great point. FreddyBeach (my home town) is more central to the Atlantic Region - or Moncton even more so. This time around, Halifax was chosen as the larger metropolitain area with the higher "potential" draw due to population. At this point, we've publically committed to Halifax for this one, so by fairness, we have to keep TechDays over there this time around.

I bring up Moncton or Fredericton as alternates in planning, but my main concern is our lack of exposure in NB might lead to lower people attending. We also have the debate about Haligonians driving over the straight to hit Moncton/Fredericton would happen. Same can be said for NB'ers driving over to Halifax.

You definetly raise a good point. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts as to the possible draw Fredericton / Moncton could have. Do you think we could get 300 people out?

Rick

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Larry Freeman — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:00:35 GMT

When is Tech Days 2009 going to start accepting registrations?

Sept is just arround the corner for Vancouver.

Larry

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

damirb — Tue, 12 May 2009 06:38:38 GMT

We are looking to have registration begin sometime in June. We will post more details here on the blog as well as in the TechNet and MSDN Flash once we have them. Stay tuned....

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Wed, 13 May 2009 15:55:57 GMT

Looking forward to seeing what will be offered at tech days. BTW, will the slides/webcast from 2008 be up soon?

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Gary Pronych — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:31:40 GMT

I am a Regina .NET UG leader.

We are kicking off a PASS and SharePoint group in the fall.

We already have a .NET and IT Pro group.

When these new groups launch we will have a better idea if we can get 300 attendees.

Put Saskatchewan in the books for 2010! 8)

+1 for Atlantic Canada; Alberta already has a stop.

re: The 7th City for TechDays Canada 2009 – Halifax or Edmonton?

Darryl MacLeod — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:08:20 GMT

Just read the news re: TechDays in Halifax. I just have to convince management to send me now. ;)