From: Alex Yushchenko <
Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 6:12 AM
Subject: SBC and Virtualization PubForum 2008 Nice Invitation
To: alex@pubforum.net
Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen,
Hope you all have a great start in the summer and are doing well. First of all thanks very much to those who
have been part of PubForum 2008 Dublin for making it such a great fun and delivering such a great content
and also being so great and well organized attendees! It was of great help to make Dublin's PubForum a
success.
Like I already announced before, this year we are back to have PubForum twice a year and like a 3 years ago
the second PubForum this year is going to happen in Nice.
http://www.pubforum.info/welcome/PubForumEvents/PubForum2008Nice/tabid/74/Default.aspx
A great, warm, beautiful location while it is already cold in north of Europe. The ones who have been there
in 2005 know what I'm talking about – a marvelous experience just 2 flight hours away.
The Event is going to happen from Friday November 7 to Sunday November 9, 2008 in Nice City Center in a very
lovely Hotel "Novotel Nice Centre Acropolis" (GPS. N 43° 42' 28.21'' E 7° 16' 55.01'').
http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/gb/nov/1103/fiche_hotel.shtml
I followed your advice to make it in the city center – and it is indeed just 5 – 8 walking minutes from it. Prices
start from 89 EUR a night when using Accor's "City Break offer" or 110 – 120 EUR with a special PubForum rate.
If your budget is tight you still have a great list of Hotels to choose – for example IBIS Hotel Nice Centre Gare
49 EUR a night (GPS : N 43° 42' 13.18'' E 7° 15' 38.89'').
http://www.ibishotel.com/ibis/fichehotel/gb/ibi/1396/fiche_hotel.shtml
Just paste the GPS coordinates into the http://maps.google.com to find the location. IBIS is 15 min walk from
Novotel or 5min taxi ride. Another advice for you.
http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/
Ryanair is selling their tickets for Winter Season at incredibly low rates and even give the tickets away for free until
Thursday Midnight – so it make sense to book it now (Thanks Aidan for this Info). Few of my Irish mates have
been thinking of going back on Sunday morning to save the Sunday Hotel cost, but here is the tip – on Sunday you
can move to a clean, comfortable ETAP Hotel Aeroport for just 47 EUR a night (GPS. N 43° 40' 1.93'' E 7° 12' 56.45'').
Don't miss out Sunday!
http://www.accorhotels.com/accorhotels/fichehotel/de/etp/2579/fiche_hotel.shtml
With this PubForum we want to introduce couple new things you have been asking for. First and the most interesting
is – we will have SIX 4 to 5 hours Expert Classes in a dedicated room up to 12 Students where the true experts of the
Topic will deliver you a great amount of their knowledge on things like XenDesktop, Microsoft Hyper V, XenApp 5,
TS + Softgrid, XenServer Troubleshooting and Citrix NetScaler. If you want to become a Student of any of those it will
only cost you just 30 EUR more for a class, just as usual to cover the setup of the class – just that. After all PubForum is
non commercial event and is meant for you to get the most value of your time and money. Because the Sessions are
recorded and of course offered for later download you won't miss a thing and you can always engage the presenters
during our evening networking or throughout the day.
Another new thing will be better organized socializing and networking part – like in Dublin we will choose a nice place
to fit for us all and this place is going to rock – we are working hard on finding the right location at the minute.
Full agenda will be ready one month before the event. We will have now better organized lunch time, allow more time
for breaks between long sessions, be better organized on schedule, have better video quality of recorded sessions,
offer Online Forum for PubForum attendees, list of attendees in a special private area just for attendees, wireless
network working from day one (with hopefully support of our PF Dublin Super Hero Sasa Masic), probably with a Virtual
Lab to play with, better communication offering between the attendees and of course great presenters and sessions!
Now 4,5 Months before the event I kindly ask you to send me your proposals for the Topic's – but we definitely will cover –
XenApp, XenServer, XenDesktop, AppDelivery, MS Terminal Services 2008, Softgrid, Microsoft and VmWare Virtualization,
64bit, VMD, VDI, SBC Project Management, Performance Monitoring, User & Printer Management, good Case studies
and Best Practices and of course have not any less important third party products too – about 20 sessions all together!
I hope to also see again our Discussion Forum Leader Daniel Shoppmann – the last Discussion Forum on Sunday was a great
and valuable experience!
I would really love to see more of you as presenters at the event – after all that is a great way to share with the community
and through the recorded sessions with the whole world your knowledge and expertise – last month visitors from all over
the world downloaded over 380GB of presentations! We are very open to your ideas, proposals and presentation offerings.
Big thanks to our past and future supporting companies – you make your Company to be heard by experts and you provide
an invaluable support to the community. If you are interested to support us this time again just write me an email please.
Thank you!
Those who are hosting blogs and website – thank you for your continuing support. As usual I would really appreciate your
support in posting a short info on the Event on your Blog's, websites or Email distribution lists! Thanks a lot Gentlemen –
Aidan Finn, Alexander Ervik Johnsen, Wilco van Bragt, Michel Roth, Charles Aunger , Douglas Brown, Jim Kenzig, Shawn Bass,
Patrick Rouse, Neil Spellings, Dmitry Vostokov, Rich Crusco, Gus Pinto and everyone else I may have forgot to mention!
Now on the Price – "Really Early Bird" 125 EUR valid till June 25, plus 10% off if it is your 3+ Event, "Early Bird" Price 150 EUR,
plus 10% off if it is your 5+ Event and just 200 EUR after October the 1st, 2008. Booking everything well in advance can save
you loads of money and will make your experience a great non commercial event, have great times, meet extraordinary and
very knowledgeable people like yourself at a price no one can beat! Please contact me when you want to book yourself a
place and get the discount whether 3+ or 5+ for the PubForum Nice!
PubForum is not independent – it depend on your input, you expertise and your involvement! Thanks for the years of
support Ladies and Gents!
Your PubForum Team PubFOrum 2008 Nice – Alex Yushchenko, Alex Danilychev and Rene Vester
Kind regards,
Alex Yushchenko
PubForum.net Founder
Citrix Technology Professional
Microsoft MVP – Terminal Services 2006,2007
Frankfurt, Germany
+49 177 4925855
Dublin, Ireland
+353 87 0660280
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