Background information about Fusion... or, rather, the Lotus Collaboration and Portal Technical University

Anthony Holmes  28 July 2008 10:09:25 AM

Here is some information about the Lotus Collaboration and Portal Technical University being held in Sydney from 16th to 19th September 2008.

The web site here is the place to go for official information about this event (watch out for updates that will be arriving soon).



I'm going to give you a bit of background information about what we're aiming to provide.

This event isn't exactly the same as Fusion used to be: there are differences. But in many ways we hope it offers more than Fusion used to provide.

In recent years, we've provided Lotusphere Comes To You events. The advantage of these events is that they toured many Australian and New Zealand cities. But they are much shorter than Fusion used to be.

More recently, IBM started running Websphere Technical Conferences. The strongest feedback we got from these is that people loved the hands on labs. So we're picking up on that feedback and running with it.

Now: to be honest, it's ten times harder for each of our presenters to put together a lab compared to putting together a set of slides. But for every topic where it makes sense for you to actually work with the software, that's exactly what you'll be doing at the LCPTU. We think that will be where you get much of the value from this event.

If you are interested in obtaining certification, there will be an opportunity to sit Certification tests during the conference for no extra cost.

LCPTU is a perhaps a less slick name than "Fusion", but we wanted to clearly describe what we are doing:

Lotus: it's about Lotus Products.
Collaboration: that includes all the traditional Lotus products like Notes, Domino, Sametime etc..
Portal: because Portal is a Lotus product aimed at helping end users, so we've got streams covering both Portal Infrastructure and Portal Development.
Technical: this is a technical event: for people who are working with the products.
University: we're working to teach you at this event. (And we hope that you'll be learning.)

If you are interested in attending, please note that there's an early bird registration discount for those who enrol before 2nd August 2008, and quote promotion code EBOLCPTU at time of enrolment.

Business Partners will also get a discounted rate when you Register. Please be sure to include your Partner Number on the registration.

An enrolment form and a list of sessions is contained in this brochure:

LCPTU 16-19SEP08 Enrolment brochure.pdf

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