Cancelled again
Ugh. I've been cancelled again.
I was planning to give an Apache-releated talk to a bunch of Yahoo! engineers in Sunnyvale next Thursday, but somone else has stolen the conference room from me.
Yahoo! Engineering has a great tradition of "Thursday Lunchtime Tech Talks." Every Thursday we reserve a big conference room upstairs from the cafeteria and someone gives a tutorial or a presentation on a technical subject while a handful of interested engineers listen and learn. It's a great opportunity to meet people you've only corresponded with over email, and very frequently you learn something about how to solve a particular problem that comes in handy.
In my 5 years at the company I've probably done 6 or 7 talks, mostly relating to ad-targeting, Apache, PHP, and our proprietary package-management tool.
I've actually been planning to give this Apache talk since early September and have had 3 separate dates reserved for this talk. But each time I've been postponed by a few weeks due to a room conflict. Next week there's some sort of three-day conference that wants to use the room.
So, I've been rescheduled for January 8, 2004. I wonder if I'll get preempted by the Q4 2003 earnings announcement...
There's like 80 conference rooms in that campus, they can't just set up a recurring event "this room, thursday, 11-2" or something, and let everyone else work around it?
Geez. :-)
Posted by Derek at November 26, 2003 05:41 PMAck.
It's amazing how much juggling of the tech talk schedule goes on...
Posted by Jeremy Zawodny at November 26, 2003 08:01 PMthe hell?
y! campus is huge. if there's no other conference room available, why not just take it outside?
which reminds me of a story of how the first 10 conference rooms got their names... but i digress.
Posted by b at November 27, 2003 12:22 AM