As a member of IBM zSeries: z/VM Development organization here in Endicott, NY, my responsibilities for z/VM Marketing Support are plentiful:

• As Worldwide VM Events Manager, I am the focal point for the VM lab participation in events and create the VM and Linux tracks for the European-held IBM System z9 and zSeries Technical Conference featuring z/OS, z/VM and Linux on IBM System z9 and zSeries, and and the US-held IBM System z9 and zSeries Expo (once known as the z/VM, VSE, and Linux on zSeries Technical Conference before we joined forces with the z/OS Expo).

  The 2006 zSeries Conferences are:
  - (tent) Late March in Germany
  - Oct. 09-13 in Orlando, FL
  
  

  Our 2005 Conferences were held April 11-15 in Innsbruck, Austria and Sept. 19-23 in San Francisco, CA
  Our 2004 Conferences were held in May 10-14 in Noordwijk NE and Nov. 1-5 in Miami Beach.
  Our 2003 Conferences were held in May 7-10 in Munich and Nov. 10-14 in Las Vegas.
  Our 2002 Conferences were held in June 24-28 in Belgium and Oct. 7-10 in Miami Beach.
  Our 2001 Conferences were held in Jacksonville, Florida and Prague, Czech Republic.
  We appreciate your attending these technical updates and are grateful for the vendors who participate in the tradeshow.

• As VM Web Editor/Producer, I manage the content of my "real" home page (the VM product web site), http://www.vm.ibm.com . This is a team effort. The server itself (VM system + cool enhancements) is maintained by Brian Wade . Several key developers contribute by providing technical product information on this site.

  We know many of you use the site for reference, so our goals are to make the information useful, retrievable, and nice to look at (with just enough graphics that the page still loads quickly).

  We publish a VM intranet site within IBM but do not repeat what is published here. This site is a primary VM resource.

• Provide an Index to IBM VM Marketing Materials for IBMers and BP's on IBM Intranet
• Creating flyers and brochures for you to READ, much of which will be contained here on this site, too.
• Assisting the IBM field and customers with VM items and concerns.
• Responding to the feedback from the VM web site and to the email sent to the VMESA id (in addition to my "christin" ids). (CHRISTIN, the 8-character version of CHRISTINA, assigned to me when we were first "allowed" to have names instead of employee numbers for user-ids.) To add to the confusion, that long-held CHRISTIN id was not "grandfathered" (carried over) to my Lotus Notes short Id (PCHRISTI).
• As a member of the VM Morale and Climate team, we find some the little things that might make a difference in our work day attitude. This summer I enjoyed having the Ice Cream trucks visit us for mid-afternoon breaks. Yum!
• And for fun, creating some of the goodies and merchandise you receive at the conferences and user groups. Other groups might refer to it as trinkets and trash, but most VMers consider VM bear "stuff" as treasures. Now that VM supports Linux guest systems, I'm delighting in the collection of penguin items to keep my bears company. In keeping with IBM brand and design guidelines for logoed merchandise, future goodies may be more of a IBM logo in nature.