I would suggest keeping your schedule and providing from the schedule which sessions you went to. You could also use the session abstracts to give highlights of what you will or have attended. Then take notes about how good the presentation was, which sessions and speakers were the best and provide that to management. Finally, take notes during the sessions so that when someone asked you what you learned in one you can say. =20 If they want more you can do a power-point presentation of highlights - which sessions were the best and specifically what you got out of them. But don't go there unless you are asked to. Start with the paper summarization first. I would imagine your management wants to see if it is worth you going to these conferences and if they are getting the "bang for the buck" - so provide some meat - might even wish to include what you learned that you will be implementing in your systems and infrastructures - that would be the best way to show that the $$ was worth it and set it up so you can go and your colleagues in future years. Definitely I like the idea of "what I learned at Oracle camp...and from that what I am planning to implement in our organization and why implementing this will make our systems more reliable, faster, easier to maintain....." =20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grabowy, Chris Sent: Monday, April 25, 2005 9:52 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: IOUG Live Get Together - trip report? I am also going, and mgmt wants some sort of official trip report when I get back. I was wondering if anyone has done these?? Suggestions?? Examples?? TIA -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joze Senegacnik Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 11:50 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: IOUG Live Get Together I'll be there as well and I'm interested to meet with the people from = =3D list.=3D20 On Monday morning I will speak about the cost based optimization=3D20 = and the extensible optimizer. The presentation title is:=3D20 "Helping CBO = To Make Better Decisions - The Extensible Optimizer"=3D20 Regards, Joze=3D20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx =3D [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of =3D Paula_Stankus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 6:39 PM To: ArnoldS@xxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: IOUG Live Get Together I will be attending along with my colleague/junior DBA from my agency and another colleague from a different agency. We would like to get together like last year.=3D3D20 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Arnold, Sandra Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 12:35 PM To: Oracle-L Freelists Subject: IOUG Live Get Together Who is going to be attending IOUG Live this year? Do we want to get together like we did last year? =3D3D20 =3D3D20 Sandra Arnold Principal DBA NCI Information Systems Oak Ridge, TN 37830 =3D3D20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 30295630) is spam: Spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3D3D3Ds&i=3D3D3D30295630&= m=3D3 D=3D 3D8b34=3D3D 685ba 4c3 Not spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3D3D3Dn&i=3D3D3D30295630&= m=3D3 D=3D 3D8b34=3D3D 685ba 4c3 Forget vote: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3D3D3Df&i=3D3D3D30295630&= m=3D3 D=3D 3D8b34=3D3D 685ba 4c3 ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l BEGIN-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS ------------------------------------------------------ Teach CanIt if this mail (ID 30500214) is spam: Spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Ds&i=3D30500214&m=3D9b11= bc8ec 2f4 Not spam: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Dn&i=3D30500214&m=3D9b11= bc8ec 2f4 Forget vote: https://dohsmsi01.doh.state.fl.us/canit/b.php?c=3Df&i=3D30500214&m=3D9b11= bc8ec 2f4 ------------------------------------------------------ END-ANTISPAM-VOTING-LINKS -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l