Re: IOUG and Quest Oracle Community - Merger

I can't speak to the perception of Collaborate being less DBA focused but I can assure you that, although the IOUG name is going away, IOUG as a DBA focused Oracle user group is not going anywhere. In fact, just this past week all former IOUG members received their Quest website credentials and a number of town halls will take place to help with the transition.

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:43 PM Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 for both RMOUG and GLOC. See https://gloc.neooug.org/ for this
> year's GLOC sessions.
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> On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 4:14 PM Tim Gorman <tim.evdbt_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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
>> *To:* oracle-l-freelist <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
>> *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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> Rumpi Gravenstein
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