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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 11-05-2008
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 10-15-2008
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 09-27-2008
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 09-21-2008
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 08-07-2008
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 08-07-2008
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 07-29-2008
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 07-06-2008
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 07-06-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Community Champions Awards
TechEd Recap

With TechEd being split into two weeks for Developers and IT Pros, it was a long experience for me. I covered both weeks for INETA. The first week we had the whole team on board and a lot of community stuff going on. We kept the INETA kiosk area well staffed, especially during session breaks, to meet...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on 07-03-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Architecture, INETA, Visual Studio Team System, TechEd, TDD, User Experience
Microsoft announces some key chages in the way it supports user groups

Today, June 20, Graham Watson, a senior marketing manager at Microsoft focused on technical communities announced some changes in conjunction with Culminis . These changes are designed to bring improvements across the board in how Microsoft supports user groups and how user groups ant their members interact...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on 06-20-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, Culminis
Florida Tweener Event

Florida has a great .Net user group culture and it was organized in full force putting together a great weekend of geeky stuff. Joe Healey, the local DE played a big part in helping to organize and support. He hosted a Friday night get together at TGI Fridays that included most of the Florida user group...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on 06-09-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, ALM, INETA, Code Camp, Visual Studio Team System, Richard Hundhausen, Joe Healey
INETA board members have lunch with Bill Gates

This week at TechEd Daniel Egan, Morgan Baker and Rob Zelt attended a roundtable luncheon with Bill Gates along with other “influential members of the community” and S. Somasegar. Check out Rob and Daniel’s blogs http://www.robzelt.com/blog/ http://www.dotnetdoc.com/ for first hand...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on 06-07-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, TechEd, Bill Gates
Dynamic Languages at TechEd

Tuesday morning at TechEd after the keynote, I went over to the Dynamic Languages area, introduced myself to the team and did a little promotion for my BOF session. Bill Chiles and I went over to Neil Ford’s session on Design Patterns in Dynamic Languages. Glad to see Neil updated his deck to all...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on 06-04-2008
Filed under: Filed under: INETA, Dynamic Languages, Iron Python, C#, TechEd, Birds of a Feather, Iron Ruby
INETA Community Leadership Summit at TechEd

Today, INETA hosted a community leadership summit as a TechEd pre-conference get-together for INETA user group leaders and influential’s. About 70 attended for a great session of food, networking, and sharing. Rob Zelt led a discussion on best practices and ideas to continue building our user groups...

Posted to Mike Vincent's Blog by mikev on 06-02-2008
Filed under: Filed under: Community, INETA, TechEd

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