Stuart Ainsworth (blog, Twitter) came up with a great idea: using a bingo game to facilitate networking at the 2009 PASS Community Summit. The idea is to encourage conference attendees to find and meet each other. As I’ve mentioned before, getting more involved in the SQL Server community has been a goal of mine, so this seemed like a great opportunity. Stuart also encouraged me to participate when I met him at SQLSaturday #25.
Stuart teamed up with Brent Ozar (blog, Twitter) to bring the idea to fruition. Brent marshaled the full resources of Quest Software and SQLServerPedia, sparing no expense, and came up with the bingo cards and prizes!
To play, print out three bingo cards. Then at the conference, track down and meet the people that have agreed to be squares (we’re shown by our Twitter name and profile picture… mine can be found over to the right*). They will provide you with a passphrase and you can mark them off. Complete individual lines or the entire card to win.
I chose a geeky RDBMS term for my passphrase, which I hope will generate some discussion. I don’t have any swag to give away, but I will recognize (on this blog) the first person to catch the reference.
I’m also printing out stickers with my Twitter name and profile picture to be affixed to my conference badge.
I look forward to meeting you!
Here are a few other posts about the game:
- PASS Summit 2009 – Twitter Bingo Players
- SQL PASS Twitter Bingo: The rules so far…
- SQLBingo: a few more things to consider…
- #SQLBingo: Meet nice people and learn their safewords.
- I’m a Bingo Square!
- There was a rancher who had a DBA…. (Getting prepped for PASS)
- I’m a square.
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Tags: conferences, goals, networking, PASS, Twitter
