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Welcome to the very first Issue of the INETA
Newsletter!
Message
from the Executive Director
INETA’s
vision to provide a structured, peer-based organizational,
educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide
community of Microsoft® .NET user groups is now a reality. To
date 92 user groups around the world, who represent over 34,000
members, have joined INETA. In the near future an INETA Europe will
be established and activity in Australia, Latin America, Asia, Japan and
India are developing
now.
Our thanks to Microsoft: a charter sponsor,
for funding some of the initial activities, and supporting the
launch of INETA. Thanks also to Brinkster,
for providing the hosting and infrastructure for INETA. And to our
newsletter committee, chaired by Dave Noderer, for providing us with
this first update, with many more to
come.
We’re excited to announce the establishment
of a Speakers Bureau which includes more than a few of the most well
known authors and speakers.
Microsoft recently hosted a two day conference for Speakers
Bureau members to make sure that speakers have the most up to date
information.
Despite growing sponsorships, we are a
volunteer run organization and each committee needs active
volunteers. Please
consider donating some of your valuable time to this exciting
venture!
As always, we are looking to you, the user
group leaders to let us know what you need. Please contact any board
member for more information or to volunteer for a committee.
William
Evjen
Executive Director, INETA
INETA
Speaker Bureau Information
Farhan
Muhammed and Keith Pleas are jointly
coordinating the creation of the Speakers’ Bureau by inviting
qualified .NET experts to join, collecting their biographies and
building an infrastructure to support numerous invitations by User
Groups. They are being
assisted in their efforts by Linda Bookey, of Bookey Consulting,
Inc. a vendor who specializes in Marketing and Program Management.
Check the web site
at INETA Speakers
Bureau to view all of the
current speakers.
Report
on the Milwaukee .NET Users Group
Meeting
By Brian Tinkler
President, WI .NET Users
Group
I received a dreadful scare, just 2 days
before our first Wisconsin .NET Users Group meeting. Rushing back from a meeting
with a client from my day job, I grabbed 2 minutes of free time to
check my voice mail. I
had received a call from our scheduled speaker saying that he
couldn’t make it.
After a few minutes of expletives, I
gathered my composure and began thinking about how I was going to be
able to find a replacement.
We had over 100 people registered to come to our first
meeting and I had 24 hours to find a replacement speaker. The outlook was bleak at
best. Was I going to
have to cancel our first meeting? In a moment of desperation,
I called one of the INETA Board of Directors. Twenty minutes later, Doug
Seven was booked on a flight from Seattle,
WA to Madison,
WI.
While I fully support and believe in INETA’s mission of helping User Groups foster a
.NET community by offering assistance and resources to community
groups that promote and educate their membership in Microsoft's .NET
technologies, I never fully grasped how seriously all the members of
INETA take that mission.
Through their commitment and relationships, the WI .NET Users
Group is alive and well and had one of the best user group meetings
ever.
Doug Seven’s presentation on ASP.NET:
Advanced DataGrid Techniques left our
packed-house of members with their jaws on the floor. We had an incredible
experience for our first User Group meeting and one that will last
in the minds of the Wisconsin .NET community for a long time to
come.
From
Doug Seven:
I would like to express my gratitude to
INETA, Brian Tinkler, and the Wisconsin .NET User Group. While I was asked
on very short notice to speak at the inaugural meeting of the
Wisconsin .NET User Group, the experience was
wonderful. As an industry guru I travel and speak to groups quite a
bit, and this experience ranks among the best of
them.
The travel and accommodations were handled
by INETA flawlessly and efficiently. The user group facility was
top-of-the-line, including theater style seating, two large
projection screens and wireless microphones - better than some
conferences I have been to.
Lastly, and most importantly, the users that
make up the group were fantastic - 70+ energized, excited, and
interested developers, some of which had driven for hours to be
there. I had the opportunity to speak to group members after my
presentation.
All I can say is that, with the excitement
and enthusiasm that I witnessed, I believe the Wisconsin.NET User
Group has a wonderful future ahead of them.
Sincerely,
Doug
Seven
Microsoft ASP.NET MVP Sr. Developer -
DotNetJunkies.com
THANK
YOU INETA!
The WI .NET Users Group is a .NET community
that proudly belongs to INETA.
We meet every fourth Tuesday of the month, alternating
locations between Madison and Milwaukee to serve the widest
group of.NET enthusiasts in the State. We focus on the entire .NET
platform, including Visual Studio.NET, the .NET Framework, XML Web
Services, .NET Enterprise Servers and all the tools and technologies
that encompass Microsoft’s vision for a connected world.
To learn more or become a member of
Wisconsin’s .NET
community.
Please visit us online at http://
www.wi-INETA.org.
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