I’ll be in San Francisco Monday through Wednesday this week for Sun’s Analyst Summit. Should be a good time–I get to see and meet lots of people I want to see and meet at the same time that I escape Denver’s interminable intolerable unbelievable winter for three days.
My schedule’s largely spoken for at this point, but I’ll be back in SF at the end of February and then again in April.
I haven’t been to the SF Bay area since leaving Palo Alto in December of 1999 to move to Northern Virginia. I spent almost fifteen years of my life in Stanford, Mountain View, and Palo Alto, so I know the place well. It serves as home to many of my good friends and good memories. Of course I’ll be seeing some of those good friends but I probably won’t drive past old houses and old employers, like my husband Rick likes to do when he goes back there. Might be fun to see how our old neighborhoods have changed (scrapes aplenty, I’m sure) and to revisit Larry’s Emerald City in Redwood Shores, but happily, my responsibilities have me busy elsewhere.
When I left California (just like when I left Colorado), I thought there was no going back. I was so ready to say goodbye to Web Bubble 1.0, goodbye to stock options uber alles, goodbye to weird Northern California non-seasons. I still have no wish to live there. To me, Colorado is the perfect combination of ambition and laidbackness.
The other three RedMonk analysts will be in SF too–the first time we will all be together since I joined–and I am really looking forward to that as well as to hooking up with the GigaOM team. Virtual teams are great, but it’s fun to hang out in the flesh too.
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Back in SF the end of Feb? I’m flying there on the 26th and will be there until the evening of March 1st. You aren’t going to the O’Reilly Etel conference are you?
anne - on the chance your second trip has you in SF March 1, and you have spare time late afternoon, drop me a line. -brenda