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In this issue: Speakers Bureau Update, Call for Volunteers, NET News, Community Building, User Group News, In the Forums, Tips for your UG Meeting, Tips for your UG Website, INETA Europe Update, UG Relations Committee Update INETA Speakers: Cheaper than pizza and free delivery, too! Can INETA be for real? Is it too good to be true? We have been hearing from UG leaders who don’t really believe that INETA can help their User Groups. One person said "I had no idea INETA was so ... relevant! But now I am looking forward to taking advantage of what they have to offer." It's true. Did you realize that when you request a speaker from the Speakers Bureau, we will fly them right to your door and pay their expenses? Check out our stunning list of speakers at www.ineta.org/Default.aspx?tabindex=2&tabid=16. Ask your User Group leader (if it’s someone other than you), to sign in and request your choice of speakers for a future meeting. Did you know that INETA will be at ASP Connections in Orlando giving presentations of interest to User Group leaders? We have worked with the Conference Organizers to provide special discounted registration to INETA members attending ASP Connections, Visual Studio.NET Connections and/or SQL Server Magazine LIVE!, Be sure to check the banners at www.ineta.org for more information. Did you know that there are already 6 book publishers, 1 web hosting site, a DevCon conference, 10 software publishers, 3 training houses and 2 software vendors all currently offering special discounts to INETA Members? Soon there will be even more!
If you have been participating in the forums at the INETA site, then
you know that Microsoft U.S. is offering VS.Net licenses to raffle
off at your user group meeting, and that it’s also a great source of
information about User Group issues. Here's the answer: No! INETA is not too good to be true! It is real, up and running, and excited to be able to provide these benefits to .NET User Groups. To contact INETA: Be sure to check the appropriate tab on the www.ineta.org site to see who is the correct contact for your areas of interest. Forums are open to all, but to post, you must sign in with your User Group’s login and password From the Speakers Bureau Committee The Speakers Bureau is live along with a request form that we hope all User Groups will use soon. Follow this link to see the speakers list and the request form! We have had positive responses from our early bird User Groups who have already had speakers come to the local meetings. Doug Seven, Asli Bilgen, and Paul Sherrif all received high marks when they presented at various locations. We have 10 User Group speaker requests currently and have confirmed 6 future dates, and are working on confirming 4 others. It’s exciting to see it actually happening.
Get involved with INETA and you’ll go places, literally. We are inviting up to 40 User Group leaders to our User Group Meetings at ASP Connections and paying their travel expenses to attend. We plan to have even larger meeting sessions at Microsoft PDC in the spring. Volunteer with one of INETA’s committees and learn from other User Group leaders while you contribute. And you may even get to go places this Spring! Email us at ugrelations@ineta.org. .NET News to share with your members Service Pack 2 of the .NET Framework was
released on August 8 and can be downloaded from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/sp/default.asp.
Your user group is a gold mine for building a real community among your area programmers. Enable networking at your meetings, through mail list servers, etc. INETA is turning out to be a gold mine for extending this community. User Group leaders are sharing ideas and helping each other out with questions about running their groups. New Hampshire's UG leader recently presented at Vermont's .Net meeting. Now some members have been going to each other's meetings. News from Member User Groups Please send news (and pictures) from your user group so we can include it in a future newsletter! Contact us at: ugrelations@ineta.org
In the Forums (of www.ineta.org) "Who pays for all that Pizza?" Here's a thread in the "General Forums"/"User Group Ideas" where leaders of different user groups are sharing different ways of funding their feeding. Don't forget the forums as a great resource for getting or sharing ideas with other user group leaders and communicating with INETA committee members, Microsoft reps and others.
Tips for your User Group Meeting The Sydney .NET Users Group (www.ssw.com.au/ssw/NETUG) suggests that members bring a "hot tip" on any .NET related topic to the meeting. They then set aside some time during their meeting to share some of these tricks with each other. Have a unique idea that has enhanced your meetings? Share it with INETA members in the next newsletter. Contact us at: ugrelations@ineta.org Tips for your User Group Website Add a webservice! DotNetJunkies has published webservices that let you incorporate headlines of their latest tutorials and How-to's. There are a number of different configurations. Look for the "Content Web Services" on their website: www.dotnetjunkies.com Your UG website is the perfect playground for learning ASP.Net and impressing friends, relatives and your fellow UG members! INETA Europe was officially announced
in July at TechEd Barcelona. Since then INETA Europe has been very
active, and currently has 23 groups in Austria, Germany, Ireland,
Israel, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, and UK.
The INETA Europe board has representatives from Norway, Russia,
Italy and France. From the User Group Relations Committee This committee has been busy too. We have many energetic, active volunteers who are:
The INETA newsletter is emailed to the contact person of User Groups that are members of INETA. We welcome your feedback on this newsletter. Please contact ugrelations@ineta.org.
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