I'm at the SharePoint 2008 conference in Seattle. I'm excited to be here because I have been looking for opportunities to connect with the larger SharePoint community. I'm not sure how much technical details I will get out of the conference, but there is a lot of energy and excitement.
The first day started out with a great keynote from Bill Gates. His enegy for technology and how it can drive business value is incredible. I was also really impressed with his passion about the Bill Gates Foundation. It was my forth time seeing him in person and he seemed the happiest of all those speeches.
On the negative side MSFT should have done a better job limiting the number of people at the conference. The conference is sold out, but frankly it is oversold. I have already been turned away from one of the sessions I wanted to attend. Second a few of the sessions I have been too didn't really connect back to SharePoint. For example I went to a talk about using AD FS with SharePoint, but there was really no discussion about hooking AD FS with SharePoint. Another example was a session that was geared towards Extranets, but turned into a 60 minute sales speech.
I ended the day with a great talk about how to get find resources for starting a user group. This is something I am seriously considering so I really enjoyed the info.
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