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INETA Speakers' Bureau Activities
The
INETA Speakers Bureau is now taking requests for speakers. If you
would like to request a speaker for your user group, please visit http://www.ineta.org
and complete the request form shown on the Speakers Bureau page.
The INETA web site now has a complete listing of the
participating Speakers' Bureau members, a process in place for User
Groups to request speakers at their meetings. We currently have 19
speakers available to fulfill these requests.
Doug Seven,
INETA Speakers' Bureau Member, presented at the Twin Cities .NET
Users Group. Due to good local publicity and coverage in MSDN Flash,
more than 70 people, (twice the usual number), attended the July
meeting.
Doug talked about Advanced Topics with Data Grid
and ASP.NET and received universal high marks on the survey that
attendees completed. Attendees also gave high marks to the pizza,
and more importantly, to INETA's support of their local user group.
Paul Sheriff will speak at South Sound Users Group, Olympia,
Washington on August 8th. Paul Mehner, the User Group leader is
working hard on generating publicity and expects a good turn out for
this event.
INETA is
pleased to announce that the User Group Specials page is now
available at:
User Group Specials
The password-protected
User Group Specials page allows people to receive significant
discounts and other benefits from third party vendors. There are
currently 25 vendors participating, with more being added every day!
As a member benefit of belonging to INETA, your user group
members can get access to this page.
You should have
received an announcement notice that you could relay to your
members. If you did not, or if you need it re-sent, please drop us a
note at ugspecials@ineta.org
GREAT NEWS
- WE JUST KEEP GROWING
The INETA community now has more than
140 user groups
Our #100
group is the Groupe d'usagers Visual Studio Montréal. We still have
a backlog of groups to approve and volunteers are working on that as
fast as they can. Watch for updated numbers on the INETA website.
Some statistics:
- 140 user groups.
- Over 41,000
developers world wide.
- Members are located in 20 countries and
38 states.
- Watch for UG Leader meetings Orlando in October
(27th-30th) at ASP Connections conference
- Speakers Bureau
launched with 19 "rock star" author/speakers
Please send news
(and pictures) from your user group so we can include it in a future
newsletter! Contact us at: ugrelations@ineta.org
CHECK OUT
THE NEW FORUMS!
We've added a variety of forums to support INETA and User
Group activities. Be sure to check them out. At this time we are not
setup to handle all the users in your group, but all User Group
Leaders are encouraged to try them out!
You will need to
create a user name and password to get access to the forums and
other unique services on the site.
FlaDotNET
does Charity!
The
Florida Dot NET user groups, www.fladotnet.net, has launched a series of
projects intended to give developers the chance to work on a real
.NET project AND provide a benefit local community groups.
To support this effort David Silverlight, Jason Beres and
Sheri Nawrocki created a new sister website www.nonprofitways.com .
Response has been
strong with over 70 volunteers signing up for the 3 projects
currently under ways. Other user groups are invited to utilize the
site for their own projects.
Currently the site is hosted by
www.bycomputerways.com but we will be looking for
hosting companies to provide development and hosting space at some
point in the future.
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