Re: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger

+1 for both RMOUG and GLOC. See https://gloc.neooug.org/ for this year's GLOC sessions.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 4:14 PM Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> RMOUG in February always has a good lineup of talks by and for DBAs; same
> with GLOC in May.
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> On 7/8/19 13:15, Leroy Kemnitz wrote:
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> I am ‘giving up’ on conferences for DBAs. I agree that Collaborate is
> less and less for DBAs – I attended the conference for many years and
> enjoyed it in the past.
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org>
> <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On Behalf Of *Tyfanie Wineriter
> *Sent:* Monday, July 8, 2019 2:07 PM
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> *Subject:* RE: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger
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> Out of curiosity, now that Quest swallowed IOUG, and Collaborate is
> significantly less DBA-Focused (I agree with Jeff, it was already becoming
> less and less for DBAs), what conferences are DBAs going to instead? Is
> there a good DBA-Focused conference, besides OpenWorld?
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> I wanted to do a “MySQL For the Oracle RAC DBA” presentation, since that’s
> what I was looking for at the last Collaborate. :D
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> ~ Tyfanie Wineriter ~
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Jeff Chirco
> *Sent:* Tuesday, March 5, 2019 5:06 PM
> *To:* Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate_at_gmail.com>
> *Cc:* oracle-l-freelist <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger
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> To be honest was not a fan but also doesn't matter too much as this was
> the first year I decided to not renew my membership. I wasn't finding any
> value in the membership, the webinars seemed to be less and less, I stopped
> reading the Select Journal when it moved to an electronic format (just
> personal preference), and the website had a lack of community involvement.
> I've attended Collaborate 3 times, and as a DBA in a company that does not
> have any Oracle "Apps" nor have any plans to use Oracle Cloud the
> conference was providing less of a value. It seemed the DBA related
> sessions were less and less and mostly focused on the Cloud. Which I get as
> that is Oracle's push, but just not for our company until maybe one day we
> are forced. Also I always felt overwhelmed by the disproportion amount of
> "apps" people from Quest and OAUG versus the DBA's from IOUG. Was harder to
> find good conversations. I was kind of hoping IOUG would go the other way
> and own its own from the conference perspective. If I attend another
> conference it will probably be RMOUG or ODTUG as those just seem to make
> more sense for what we focus on. But I've meet some great people through
> IOUG and it could actually be better under Quest. Just my two cents. I'll
> continue to keep and eye on it as it goes.
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> Jeff
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:57 AM Alfredo Abate <alfredo.abate_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> In case you haven't heard, the IOUG is now part of the Quest Oracle
> Community.
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> https://questoraclecommunity.org/better-together
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> Alfredo
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