TechEd BOF

If you’ve been around the Internet for a while, you’ve probably heard of BOF, or “birds of a feather” sessions. BOFs are informal meetings held in parallel with conferences like LISA and regularly scheduled meetings like the IETF conferences. The International .NET Association is coordinating the process of setting up a series of BOFs for TechEd 2004. The cool thing about these sessions is that the BOF topics are proposed by TechEd attendees. Their content isn’t driven by MS, or anyone else besides the people in the room. They’re not presentations– they’re an opportunity for people with related interests, whatever they are, to get together and hang out for an hour. The MS TechEd staff is encouraging speakers to encourage “their” communities to propose BOFs here. There are tons of potential topics for Exchange, including security, anti-spam, job hunting, mobility, Notes migration, Exchange 2003 SP1… the list goes on. Let the INETA folks know what you’d like to see.