Unofficial Spiceworks

Spiceworks last night announced the agenda for the SpiceWorld 2010 in Austin Texas, this year is set to be bigger and better than last year with some cool new ideas being tried out as well as the removal of the Spiceworks basic’s sessions.

The Spiceworks basics sessions have been taken out of the SpiceWorld and moved “Spiceworks Boot Camps” like the one in Austin as well as free online training sessions though webinars. This is so that the real event can be filled with more stuff that you want to see and hear things like new features in 5.0, to Virtualization talks from Spiceworks Partners.

They have kept in one of the great things from last year getting some of the SpiceHeads and “Community Rockstars” like Scott Alan Miller to take to the stage and present some topics like “Security Essentials for the SMB IT Network (on a Shoestring Budget!)”.

It looks like an action packed couple of days, you can checkout the full agenda on the Spiceworks website here.

Need help finding the budget? Checkout the topic need help getting approval/budget to go to SpiceWorld? on the Spiceworks community, lots of people shared ideas last year.

Don’t forget there are only 200 places and around half of them have already gone. So make sure you register before its too late!

Checkout our posts about SpiceWorld 2009 and of course Unofficial Spiceworks will be updating you as we get more as well as providing you all the gossip from the event well from the live stream at least.

I found these on my phone when taking a picture of a server tag…

Click for a larger version

I don’t remember taking them though?

The first ones a little blurry I know but hay…

WOW

What a great day and evening it was.

We didn’t get as many pictures as Spiceworld Austin did but here are the few we did get, click them for a larger version.

We learnt lots from the fact Spiceworks’s largest network is 39,000 devices to how to start using 4.5 when its released this week.

It was a great day had by all, the venue ended up becoming a bit cosy but that’s a good thing. The turn out was GREAT. Meeting the team was a great experience as well as meeting all the people I had seen around on the community.

I was also surprised to see we had some Swedish people over

I would definitely go back next year and were hoping to get some more UK SpiceCorps (local user meetups) going.

If you have any more pictures please email them to me, use the contact form and ill drop you back my address.

Some quotes and bits from the evening:

• “Im an Alcoholic and i invented Spiceworks!” http://oots.be/m0
• We called Texas from a mobile to get Jays number… ended up emailing him.
• We walked past the BT tower 4 times?
• Most off us were up till 3am
• The Spicie got given a new name… Hmm not sure it should be repeated…
• We randomly bumped into Jay struggling to find transport.
• We also found out the hard way that London closes way to early…
• Got more? Add them as comments or post on the community “Spiceworld London 2009”

There is a video floating around we may get up as well.

I’m going to Spiceworld London on the 4th December and would love to see some off you there; or if your from over the “pond” make a weekend off it under company expenses?

It promises to be a great day in which you will learn lots of cool stuff from getting the most out of your Spiceworks inventory with monitors, alerts and reporting to running a successful helpdesk.

SpiceWorld London is the going to be officially the 1st ever opportunity for direct 4.5 training!

And after the event you can join me and hopefully the Spiceworks team for a couple of drinks

Now that SpiceWorld is only £145 it’s also one of the cheapest IT conferences and because off this you should be able to write it off as a company training exercise. How to get your boss to let you attend SpiceWorld – http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/74648

Hopefully we can make SpiceWorld London better than Austin, checkout how much fun they had http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiceworks/sets/72157622514703553

Check out the rest of the info and sign up today at http://www.spiceworld2009.com/london

Still stuck for reasons to come to SpiceWorld 2009 checkout the video – http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=spiceworld&video=SW-09-promo

Want a taster off what it will be like? Checkout the Austin Keynote video http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=spiceworld&video=SW-09-keynote

If London is a bit too far for you to come along then make sure you keep an eye on the Spiceworks Twitter and Spiceworld2009.com for the latest happenings and get planning for 2010!

See you around the community and hope to see a few there

There are still Spaces left for Spiceworld London which promises to be as good if not better than Spiceworld London.

With 5 of the team coming over Scott Abel (CEO & Co-founder), Francis Sullivan (CTO & Co-founder), Jay Hallberg (VP of Marketing & Co-founder), Tabrez Syed (Dir. of Products), Jen Slaski (Director of Marketing) it will be a great even for all to learn about Spiceworks and meet the team.

Now Spiceworld London is only £145 their is no reason not to go, it will be a great day followed by a great after party with the team.

Some cool links and info about Spiceworld London

• Meet me akp982 http://community.spiceworks.com/profile/show/akp982
• Find out what users have said about SpiceWorld Austin 2009 – http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/80206
• Find out how to get your boss to let you attend SpiceWorld – http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/74648
• SpiceWorld Austin pictures – http://www.flickr.com/photos/spiceworks/sets/72157622514703553/
• Top Reasons to Come to SpiceWorld 2009 video – http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=spiceworld&video=SW-09-promo
• Spiceworks Overview at SpiceWorld – gives a taste of what they’ll see – http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=spiceworld&video=SW-09-keynote
• SpiceWorld London is the 1st ever opportunity for direct 4.5 training

Find out more and sign up today http://www.spiceworld2009.com/london/

Are you coming?

Its going to be a great!

What You’ll Learn

In times like these, it’s critical to make the most of free tools like Spiceworks and to show your company just how indispensible you are! SpiceWorld will include practical, hands-on sessions geared at helping you do just that!

• Getting a Full Inventory of Your Network Assets
• Using Spiceworks Monitors & Alerts

• Mapping Your Network

• Introduction to the Help Desk & User Portal

• Customizing the Help Desk & Portal for Your Needs

• Running Useful IT Reports on Your Network & Workload

Find out more

Checkout the Spiceworld2009 recordings on Spiceworks TV http://www.spiceworks.com/tv/?cat=spiceworld

• Top Reasons to Come to SpiceWorld 2009 [1:00]
• Welcome to SpiceWorld Keynote [15:36]
• 4.5 Sneak Peek [38:32]
• Ready for Windows 7!? [26:25]
• Everything About Software Licensing [54:25]
• Making Spiceworks Do Even More! [32:13]
• Virtualization: Trends, Tips and Solutions [45:40]

Click here to checkout all our Spiceworld2009 posts.

Missed Spiceworld 2009? Why not checkout all off Spiceworks-New’s Spiceworld 2009 posts.

There are so many cool things going on, we tried to post about them, from the live streams to just funny tweets we got abit of everything.

Spiceworks-News is already setup ready to start posting about Spiceworld London (http://www.spiceworld2009.com/london/) want to help us out? Well be there but we want some extra tweeters and posters to try and make it bigger and better than Spiceworld Austin.

Some people on twitter said the virtual event was just as good as being there thanks to the tweets and chats. Lets do the same for London and make Spiceworks want to come back.

Our Spiceworld2009 posts

Checkout some of the feedback

“Not only were the sessions very informative and fun, I also enjoyed the opportinuty to meet so many amazing people. Coming to Spiceworld truly gave me a better understanding of how close our community is. Scott Abel’s welcome keynote gave me goosebumps and motivated me to want to be even more active.” merlinpr in the community

“Loved it! Great info, great food, great “peer interaction”. I loved getting to meet so many SpiceHeads in person. I have noticed that when I read posts now I do so in the voice of the person that wrote it. Definitely worth more than the price I paid to go. ” SCAdmin in the community

More feedback on the community here