I was in the process of signing up for Lotusphere 2011. Since I didn't plan to go to the Wednesday party nor Thursday I thought I would sign up for the three day conference badge which is $200 cheaper. I was surprise to find out that as an IBM Business Partner we are not allowed to sign up for the three day pass. It sounds like IBM squeezing money out of the partners again.
After my last post in this series -- way back in September 2022, several things happened that prevented any further installments. First came CollabSphere 2022 and then CollabSphere 2023, and organizing international conferences can easily consume all of one's spare time. Throughout this same time period, our product development efforts continued at full speed and are just now coming to fruition, which means it is finally time to continue our blog series. So let's get started... As developers, most of us create applications through the conscious act of programming, either procedural, as many of us old-timers grew up with, or object-oriented, which we grudgingly had to admit was better. This is true whether we are using Java, LotusScript, C++ or Rust on Domino. (By the way, does anyone remember Pascal? When I was in school, I remember being told it was the language of the future, but for some reason it didn't seem to survive past the MTV era). But in the last decade, there a...
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I'm a marketing manager at IBM, and I happened upon your post. Based on your feedback, I asked some of the folks involved with Lotusphere planning why business partners cannot sign up for the three day pass. They responded that rationale for excluding business partners from the three day package is based on the assumption that partners would want to attend the Business Partner Development Day on Sunday, January 30th. I apologize if that is not the case in your instance. At this point, IBM cannot make changes to the registration packages since people have already started to register; however, we do appreciate your feed and will certainly keep it in mind for next year.
-Jacqi Levy
@IBMPartnerMktg