Vista Licenses update

I just got an update from Doug: the copies of Vista should arrive in about a week and we’ll have them shipped out asap. I can’t wait!

Vista Ultimate

I just sent the list of the people who won a copy of Vista to Microsoft, hopefully they’ll be able to ship them out soon. Congratulations again to everyone who won a copy!

If anyone’s interested in helping out at the next event(probably something similar to this) feel free to send me an e-mail at giraffeh@gmail.com I look forward to seeing everyone again!

E-mail Update

3 days left!!

I just sent out an e-mail to everybody who registered with a quick update and some more information. It took like 4 minutes to finish e-mailing everyone O.o I was really worried that it would stop 1/2 way through and I wouldn’t have any way of knowing who’d gotten the e-mails but luckily everything worked out. I really hope everyone can make it!

I’ve also updated workshops page so now it has a LOT more information about the workshops, huge thanks to everyone who’s presenting! And the presenters page now has relevant information about the presenters rather than a login/register thing. To be honest I was kind of sad to get rid of the login option since it was the first “real” thing I’ve done in PHP but bios are a lot more useful.

Vista Party

The vista party is in 8 days. Wow.

I still remember the first e-mail I sent to Doug back in December asking him if he thought this crazy idea of a “Vista Release Party” had any merit. Back then I was envisioning a small gathering of some Microsoft fans to hang out, eat lunch and perhaps chat with some Microsoft employees. Over the next few months this idea grew, we added workshops/speakers, we decided to have a giveaway of 100 copies of Vista Ultimate, we were able to provide lunch and parking for everybody, we got swag to giveaway and we even have a band! Thinking back it’s incredible how much it’s progressed, instead of a small gathering we have 450 people getting together to celebrate and learn about Vista.

And I have to give a speech in front of those 450 people O.o That’s something I’m definitely not looking forward to, even in front of 30 people I start to shake and get nervous but 450? ack! I’m not even sure what i’m going to talk about, I don’t really want to talk about the improvements with Vista since that’s what the workshops are for and after 3 hours i’m sure everyone will be tired of hearing about it. I think I might just keep it to a short “Thank you for showing up everybody..” and thanking all the awesome people who’ve helped me but that’s not really a speech. Oh well, I’ll ask Nima about it tomorrow.

If you haven’t already registered be sure to go to VistaParty.net and register, ignore the we’re full announcements, everyone on the waitlist is invited (and gets lunch!). I’m planning to start up a linkedin group for Vista party attendees but haven’t gotten it approved yet, hopefully it will be before the party.