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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 INETA for several years, first as Membership Mentor...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Fri, Jan 6 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA
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. The Rules: Any .NET Application (WinForms, ASP...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Feb 5 2011
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Component Code Challenge
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 of ALM. On Tuesday, David Starr and I hosted...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Dec 19 2009
Filed under: Filed under: ALM, INETA, Birds of a Feather, PDC, Agile, Scrum
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 in topics you care about with your peers....

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Sep 24 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Visual Studio Team System, Birds of a Feather, Scrum
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, and manage Web applications on the Internet through...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Fri, Aug 21 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, Architecture, INETA, cloud services, Windows Azure
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 System 2008 Best Practices. A big thanks for Richard...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Jun 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Visual Studio Team System, VSTS, Richard Hundhausen, User Groups, Accentient, SoCal Team System
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 included a great mix of short technical discussions...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Nov 5 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Underground @ PDC
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 Products People Will Use User Experience expert...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Wed, Oct 15 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Architecture, INETA, IASA, User Experience
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 Programs for MSFT FY 09 including speakers bureau...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sat, Sep 27 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, Architecture, INETA, Visual Studio Team System, Iron Python, C#, VB .NET, VSTS, Iron Ruby, Virtual Earth, DLR, User Groups, VSX
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 know, Microsoft is our biggest single funding source...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Sep 21 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, User Groups
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 in which I talked about INETA and how we support...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Aug 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Iron Python, Iron Ruby, TechZulu
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 and recognizing them for their contributions. Members...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Thu, Aug 7 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Inland Empire Most Valuable Member
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 on June 19 · SoCal Code Camp, San...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Tue, Jul 29 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Architecture, INETA, Code Camp, Dynamic Languages, Visual Studio Team System, Iron Python, C#, VSTS, Iron Ruby, TDD
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 and prolonged contributions to the developer community...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Jul 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, INETA Community Excellence Award
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. And, if you already have one, you can...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on Sun, Jul 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Community Champions Awards

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