As a member of IBM System z 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 z Technical Conference featuring z/OS, z/VM and Linux on IBM System z, and for the US-located IBM System z Expo (once known as the z/VM, VSE, and Linux Technical Conference before it was merged with z/OS Expo).

  The 2009 zSeries Conferences are:
  - (tent) spring in Europe
  - Fall/October in United States
  
  

  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, and comply with the IBM Web Guidelines.

  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
• Review the flyers and brochures created by Denny Refsnider, for you to READ, much of which will be posted here on the z/VM 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 VM user-ids.) To add to the confusion, that long-held CHRISTIN id was not "grandfathered" (carried over) to my Lotus Notes short Id (PCHRISTI). for mid-afternoon breaks. Yum!