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10 Years of Community with INETA
INETA is turning 10 this year, on February 12 to be specific. This is a great time to reflect on how INETA and our .NET Community have grown. In addition to founding and running several user groups in Orange County, California I had the honor of serving...
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INETA Component Code Challenge
Win a full scholarship trip to Microsoft's TechEd 2011 in Atlanta. INETA is hosting the Component Code Challenge, a contest with our component partners to showcase great .NET applications making effective use of reusable components to solve a problem...
PDC Birds of a Feather Follow-up
I'm a month late following up on PDC but it was a real success in my opinion. I had a great time starting off with Monday's pre-conference hosting an MVP table at the lunch break to discuss the new Visual Studio configurations and deeper integration...
PDC Birds of a Feather (BOF)
INETA is again organizing the Birds of a Feather (BOF) discussions at PDC. BOF sessions are a bit different from the normal formal presentations. They are discussions on topics originated by and facilitated by volunteers. They are a great way to get involved...
INETA Windows Azure Train-the-Trainer Sessions
Windows® Azure is a cloud services operating system that serves as the development, service hosting and service management environment for the Windows Azure Platform. Windows Azure provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale...
SoCal Team System off to a great start
On June 23 rd , we kicked off the inaugural meeting of SoCal Team System . After some opening comments from William Salazar, Microsoft Developer Technology Specialist, we had a great presentation from Richard Hundhausen on Microsoft Visual Studio Team...
The Underground @ PDC
Last week at PDC 2008 there was a lot of great evening activity going on in addition to the daytime sessions. Coolest was the Underground @ PDC. Hosted at the Edison, a club located in the basement of what once was an old Edison power station, the event...
Patrick Neeman at SoCal .Net Architecture
The IASA SoCal October Architecture meeting (10/16) is focusing on the importance of User Experience. Patrick Neeman, a colleague and good friend is presenting. Check out his blog http://www.usabilitycounts.com . How User Experience Ensures You Will Build...
Microsoft Product Team Meetings
In mid September I, along with other INETA NorAm board members, had the pleasure of meeting with several product teams at Microsoft while in Redmond for an INETA board of directors meeting. In our product team meetings, we shared our overall plan INETA...
INETA Programs for Supporting User Groups
One of my major responsibilities, as Treasurer for INETA, is to prepare our annual budget submission to Microsoft. INETA is a volunteer organization that depends on funding from various sources in order to provide services to our user groups. As you may...
TechZulu Interview
The TechZulu people were at the Inland Empire .NET 's special meeting honoring its Most Valuable Members (MVM). They have some really interesting interviews on people and action in the tech entrepreneurial space. I had the honor of being interviewed...
Inland Empire .NET Most Valuable Member Awards
Last month I had the privelage of delivering one of four mini presentations at the Inland Empire .NET 's special MVM meeting. James Johnson, IE.NET president has really put together an inovative program for getting volunteers involved in the group...
Dynamic Languages and the DLR presentations at user groups and code camp
Over the past month, I’ve made the rounds of several Southern California user groups and the San Diego Code Camp presenting “Dynamic Languages and the DLR.” · San Gabriel Valley .NET on June 18 · IASA SoCal/SoCal .NET Architecture...
The INETA Community Excellence Award
In addition to the INETA Community Champion award , another really exciting new program that INETA has launched this year is the Community Excellence Award . The INETA Community Excellence Award is given to individuals for their extraordinary efforts...
INETA Community Champions Awards
INETA Rewards those Active in the User Group Community An XBox or MSDN Subscription to the 10 Most Active Contributors in the User Group Community each quarter. How? By doing what you are doing already, you stand to win: a) Valuable Prizes: An MSDN Subscription...
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