Get To VMworld 2009 Early – Sunday and Monday Stuff
July 28th, 2009 | 
Author: Even though VMworld 2009 doesn’t officially start until Tues 9/1 there is still plenty to do for early arrivers. I’ll be getting to San Francisco early so I thought I’d pass along a couple of events on both Sunday and Monday that I am looking forward to.
Sunday Night 8/30/09
Theron Conrey has been the mastermind of the VMworldUnderground get together for the last 2 years, and he is raising the bar with this year’s VMworld 2009 Sunday Night Warm Up Extravaganza at the Thirsty Bear in San Francisco.
“This year we’re looking to break the mold. I’ve enlisted a crack team of party planners to help me get this under control. We also have a fantastic group of vendor sponsors pitching in to put this over the top. Head over to our main page for all the details.
Same simple rule as last year:
Technology talk and networking with your peers is strongly encouraged, however if you’re talking about a product you sell, you’re buying drinks (sponsoring vendors excluded of course), We will hear no excuses (seriously, we’ve worked out a deal for you to work it off in the kitchen). Vendor engineers are excluded from this rule again this year as they tend to be extremely funny after a few pints, and can’t help themselves.”
Theron is asking for RSVPs in the form of replies to the event thread at VMworld.com (linked above). Leave a reply and also enter yourself in a drawing for the giveaways. Leave your response in the form of a limerick and recieve 2 entries for your effort. I think I read that the best limerick also wins a prize, and I’m so proud of mine I had to write it again here on VM /ETC.
vExpert, VCP, and vSphere.
VMworld soon will be here.
Sunday before bed
Put the cloud in your head.
Meet me at the Thirsty Bear for a vBeer!
I will be fashionably late Sunday due to meetings, but will definitely be there.
Monday 8/31/09
After Sunday night some may have to create “thin provisioned, linked clones” of themselves for Monday morning, but for those that get it together the technical content starts early and is worth the attendance.
If you are a VMware Partner you have the traditional partner content to look forward to, but this year VMware has turned Monday into a VMware Technology Exchange Developer Day as well.
Nava Davuluri explains the event on the VMware Communities Developer Day page and blog:
As a “Developer Day”, the primary focus of this event is on helping developers integrate with VMware platforms. We will cover developer technologies related to all three of VMware’s product areas – datacenter, desktop and cloud – in sessions and corresponding demos. A sample of topics to be covered include vSphere Web Services SDK, APIs for managing and automating guest OS, vCloud API introduction, vApps, vStorage, productivity tools and much more. Packaged into beginner and advanced level sessions, the content will be tailored specifically to help developers learn about VMware’s integration APIs, understand implementation best practices and see examples. Corresponding demos will provide further opportunity for training and discussion with VMware engineers in small-group settings.
Here is event page: http://communities.vmware.com/community/developer/techexchange
5 reasons to attend this event : http://blogs.vmware.com/developer/2009/07/5-reasons-to-attend-technology-exchange-developer-day.html
Session schedule: http://blogs.vmware.com/developer/2009/07/vmware-technology-exchange-developer-day-sessions-schedule.html
For event updates(twitter) : @VMDeveloperDay
As for the rest of the week, I will be providing a mix of live blogging, tweets and periodic reports here on VM /ETC from the general sessions, breakouts, Solutions Exchange floor, bloggers loungue, and after hours events!
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