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Who did you first meet at Lotusphere?

Category Lotusphere meetings

Many of us I'm sure, met people in the physical world for the first time at Lotusphere. Post a response on who you met for the first time at Lotusphere, and why they made an impression on you.

Mine would have to be Bruce Elgort, I was the International Launch manager for Notes R5 and here was this guy handing out bottles of Tabasco sauce. I remember him clearly as his enthusiasm was almost irritating, he was irritating as here was a guy showing us how slow and cumbersome IBM had become, here was a guy that had managed to bring together a group of people to build tLookout mail experience for Lotus Notes, and the folks internally at IBM were still bickering about what graphics to have on the R5 Welcome page. Obviously this is a meeting I regretas I'm still in touch with Bruce and he still harasses me on Skype regularly, just kidding, Bruce is a good guy.

Posted by Carl Tyler On 12/22/2008 | Permalink |

Comments

1 - I'm almost sticking to your rules, Carl.

I first met a short, witty and very engaging Scotsman walking onto a BA jet at London Gatwick. I was with my wife and kids (we did the Lotusphere/Disney combo that year) and he was with some colleagues. He rapidly twigged we were on our way to Lotusphere, proceeded to tell me all the hidden delights of Lotusphere I needed to enjoy, and changed a very dull 10 minutes of delay into an entertaining series of very tasteful gags for my kids. What a nice, courteous and polite man I thought.

Well it was Wild Bill of course, and how very wrong I was! Emoticon

Posted by Stuart McIntyre At 11:29:21 AM On 12/22/2008 | - Website - |

2 - So many people over the years, I think meeting Yancy Lent last year was cool, well because when you have no idea who or what he looks like, or if he is a guy(Luis Suarez thought otherwise) and just to say thank you for PlanetLotus would have been enough. But he was and has been great ever since and happy to help him with whatever experiments he is working on.

Posted by Keith Brooks At 12:16:35 PM On 12/22/2008 | - Website - |

3 - what is it with Bill? For some bizarre reason I introduced myself to him - it's all been downhill since then!

Posted by Warren Elsmore At 01:32:12 PM On 12/22/2008 | - Website - |

4 - First person I ever remembered meeting at a Lotusphere, at Lotusphere '95, actually, was a developer formerly from Connecticut named Gail Komlo. Strangely, every year for several years after that, she was always the first "familiar" person I'd see on Saturday or Sunday, so she became something of a talisman for me. She hasn't been back in years, though.

Posted by Turtle At 05:00:57 PM On 12/22/2008 | - Website - |

5 - I don't remember who I "met first" in 1996, but I'd venture a guess at Steve Caudill, my old buddy from the Compuserve Lotus Communications forum, circa 1993/94.

Who I "first met" in person at Lotusphere? I'll have to go with Liz. Met at Fulton's Crab House on the back of the third deck in 2002. Proposed to her 3 years later in the same spot. As to the impression she's made on me - that's still happening...

-Rob
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