Paul Mooney: ILUG "versus" DNUG?

January 3 2008

Paul Mooney addresses a topic that has been buzzing for a few days....

The [Irish Lotus Users Group, ILUG] event is from the 4th-6th June in Dublin Ireland.  The event will be held here.  This, of course conflicts with DNUG [German Notes Users Group] in the summer.  So, did we do it on purpose?
Course not.  We checked the events that we were conflicting with (Admin, Advisor stuff)  but  never considered DNUG.  Doh!  
This makes life difficult for sponsors, speakers and delegates.
In the category of "good problem to have", there are now two great conferences scheduled in Europe for 4 to 6 June.  I do not believe there is that much audience overlap, but as Paul says, a few of us on the speaker circuit will have some extra hoops to jump, and sponsors/exhibitors will have to make some choices.  My hope is to somehow figure out how to be at both events (Dublin is a definite!), though there are very few reasonable flight choices between the two cities (or even nearby cities).  We shall have to see.

I want to commend Paul, Eileen, and everyone else in the organising committee for the ILUG event for handling this conflict professionally.  "It is what it is", and we will all make the best of great events -- in June and beyond.

Ed Brill Highland Park, IL USA Category:  Lotus  Add/View Comments [12]

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  1. 1  Keith Brooks http://lotustech.blogspot.com | 1/3/2008 7:59:48 PM

    DOH! I won't be in Dublin until the week after.

  1. 2  Bruce Elgort http://ideajam.net | 1/3/2008 11:10:58 PM

    Gayle and I plan to be in Dublin and after Dublin will head to Sweden for a Lotus User Group meeting which we were invited to. I believe Matt White will be in Sweden as well :-).

  1. 3  Michael Wuerdemann http://www.engram.de | 1/4/2008 3:00:18 AM

    The beer in Bremen (Beck's Pils) will be as good as in Dublin, I think. ;-)

    So, give both cities and their brewers a try!

  1. 4  Paul Mooney http://www.pmooney.net | 1/4/2008 3:35:20 AM

    @3... Becks versus Guinness ?? ;)

    (from the Coors light drinker)

  1. 5  John Cummins  | 1/4/2008 4:03:29 AM

    @4 - Paul, do you really want to admit that you drink Coors Light? :-) After living in Germany the past 6 years, I can't go back to American beer. Not that I was a big silver bullet fan then either.

  1. 6  Vitor Pereira http://www.vitor-pereira.com | 1/4/2008 4:09:46 AM

    Good to know that "Dublin is a definite".

  1. 7  Steven  | 1/4/2008 8:39:15 AM

    Ed: Opening myself to more Michigan bashing, you may want to review the 2008 "words to avoid" list. In addition to "it is what it is", one of IBM's ND8 tag lines has made the list.

    As a replacement for "it is what it is", may I suggest "res ipsa loquitur". Or as we used to say in our Contracts and Sales course "res ipsa liquor store".

  1. 8  Christopher Byrne http://www.controlscaddy.com/ | 1/4/2008 8:53:12 AM

    Interesting as a large number of the Attendees at ILUG last year were from Germany...ideally both groups would move the events to April so the airfares would be dramatically cheaper!;-)

  1. 9  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/4/2008 10:06:51 AM

    @7 - hence the quotes around the expression -- I wondered if anyone else knew that it was over for "it is what it is". :D

  1. 10  Peter Smith  | 1/4/2008 3:45:21 PM

    @9 - so we now have "it was what it was"?

  1. 11  Frank Stangenberg http://www.microburst.de | 1/4/2008 4:51:16 PM

    For the flight choices from Bremen (Germany, DNUG Conference) to Dublin. "Ryanair" is directly flying from Bremen to Dublin and "Air Lingus" flies directly from Hamburg (approx. 80 miles from Bremen) to Dublin. Both are reasonably cheap.

  1. 12  Ed Brill http://www.edbrill.com | 1/4/2008 5:07:40 PM

    Yes but sadly not often. Ryanair does not fly on the Thursday in question at all, and Aer Lingus has but one flight a day to Hamburg...also not operating daily.