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So the evals for the presentations for DEC 2008 are now coming out. Dean pinged me about what we got because no one else has sent it to me yet… I guess that is what I get for having my name spelled in all lowercase and being the second name in the title “Legend of Dean And joe”…

Anyway, overall it seems everyone was exceedingly kind to us. The scoring was 1-5 with 1 being the quality of… well I won’t mention names and 5 being really quite good… There were 63 evals for our presentation and I don’t know how many people in the room, several hundred at least. I don’t blame them for not filling out the evals, I don’t recall seeing one and I know I didn’t fill one out, but then I was not feeling well as mentioned previously. The scores for the LDJ Show were…

• Score….Count
• 5….49
• 4….10
• 3….3
• 2….0
• 1….1

Seriously… a one? With no comment as to why it was a one? Maybe it was the person who followed our presentation, maybe it was some other sour soul, maybe it was Ulf or Princess Hor-Hay trying to skew our numbers…. The chickens flying through the room was worth at least a 2…  Wait… maybe someone thought they were picking the #1 presentation?

Here are the great comments:

• A good show as always. Good useless topic of Inf FSMO. Chickens were hilarious
• VERY informative
• Fun as always; I like background infos like that
• great 🙂
• entertaining and informative
• Nothing like it under the sun. You could’ve passed the hat in that room and made up the $50K to have just that session videotaped.
• I really enjoyed listening to these two. I found it an honor to shake their hands because of all they have brought to us in the trenches.
• great show
• They are always outstanding but not quite as great as DEC 2006. I think the smaller room at DEC 2006 allowed more crowd interaction. Put them in a smaller venue next year.    [joe note: Yes, the room was very big and it was tough if not impossible to have two-way communication…]
• Very entertaining.
• i am very glad they were able to attend this year. this is always full of nuggets of information i can immediately take back
• useful
• funny, very funny… maybe too funny     [joe note: maybe too funny????]
• Best session of the show.    [joe note: EXCELLENT!]
• very funny; very informative
• Funnyinformative; but very crude.   [joe note: Dean and I were both confused by this one, please come forward, what was very crude?]
• Excellent performance – entertaining and packed with great info
• In depth and with very much humour
• The Bill and Ted of AD – most bodacious!!  [joe note: One of my personal favorites… Idea for the next slide deck who we are page…]
• Funny but informative; some fresh ideas
• Half the reason I came!  [joe note: Hmmm what was the other half?]
• Always good to have theese guys around. Makes the DEC a little special.
• I’d give it a 6 if it were an option – these guys are to AD what David Solomon and Mark Russinovich are to the core OS  [joe note: Why isn’t 6 an option??? and… wow!]
• The depth on things like AdminSDHolder and Infrastucture FSMO were well glued together by humor and personality
• Joe and Dean need multiple sessions!! They are informative and entertaining.
• Clearly I thought we rocked

So one of those comments was from Dean filling out his eval… I will let the masses guess which one… (Hint, Dean likes to use the word “clearly”…)

The not great comment list

• the fsmo wasnt so relevant  [joe note: Still gave us a 4 though!]
• not sure the infrastructure master is relevant  [joe note: Got a 3 here.]

The overall average was 4.683, the average with Dean’s evaluation and the unexplained 1 filtered out leaves us with an average of 4.738

I know I am speaking for Dean when I say that we are glad people enjoyed the presentation (as well as Dean’s second presentation which received, of course, equally marvelous scores).

     joe