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In this issue: New Members, INETA at TechEd, INETA on MSDN TV and .Net Rocks!, User Group Relations Committee, Speakers Bureau News, Summer of Love, User Group Mailing Lists, User Group Specials, Thanks to our Supporters, Moscow's .NET Day, .NET News, In the Forums, INETA Repository, User Group Relations Committee, Community Starter Kit, Newsletter Info Newest INETA Members 28 New Groups joined INETA in May! They hail from Australia, Canada, Denmark, the Honduras, Russia and the U.K. In LATAM, Brazil (2), Columbia (7), Mexico and Venezuela (2). And in the U.S.: Alabama (2), California (4), Georgia, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. Welcome to all of our new members! INETA Meeting at TechEd was a Great Success!
Thanks to John Bristowe from the Infrastructure committee for his great note taking and the following write-up. INETA held its annual meeting on June 1st, 2003 in Dallas, Texas to coincide with TechEd 2003. Its purpose was to bring together various representatives of INETA to discuss present and future work. This year's meeting hosted individuals from a variety of countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, India, Russia, Peru, and the United States. Throughout the day, presentations were made by the board of directors, each representing his/her respective committees. Kicking things off was Bill Evjen, the executive director of INETA. Bill provided an impressive list of accomplishments that INETA has achieved in its first year of existence and highlighted many of its achievements. To date, INETA enrollment stands at over 94,000 members, representing 315 member user groups worldwide. Bill also announced the nomination of our newest board member, Keith Pleas. Keith is a liaison to the Speaker's Bureau and an international activities organizer. Other highlights included: * Federico Raggi (Microsoft) and Jose Berrios (INETA) discussed the recent explosion of .NET User Groups in Latin America (LATAM), highlighting key initiatives such as the Five Star Developer Program and Panorama Box. * Dave Noderer (Florida) provided a review of the work being done by the User Group Relations Committee. Dave and company are responsible for keeping everyone happy. * Farhan Muhammad (Twin Cities, MN) provided a synopsis of the Speakers Bureau Committee. This committee is responsible for getting .NET rock stars to user groups. * Brian Loesgen (San Diego, CA) reviewed some of the goals of the Marketing and Sponsorship Committee. These guys keep the INETA engine financed and heard. * Keith Franklin (Chicago, IL) provided an overview of what the Infrastructure Committee is currently working on. This crew keeps the INETA engine running. * Kevin Briody and Eric Ewing of Microsoft discussed Microsoft's role in the developer community. * Ruth Walther provided a run-through of the ASP.NET Community Starter Kit. A great kit for getting user groups up-and-running with their Web sites. * Oliver Nguyen (Bay Area, CA) and Devin Rader (St. Louis, MI) gave a presentation of how to effectively promote a user group. * Scott Robertson (Los Angeles, CA) and Julie Lerman (Vermont) presented a talk on how to draw sponsorship for a User Group. Most attendees were completely exhausted by the end of the meeting. However, like true champions, we pushed on through to the party that followed afterward.
INETA Featured on MSDN TV and .NET Rocks! MSDN TV came around to the INETA booth during TechEd. Check out the video! See the faces of people you know but have never met. See it here! .NET Rocks! Carl Franklin and Mark Dunn's .NET Audio Q & A show featured INETA in early June. Interviewed were Executive Directory Bill Evjen, President Brian Loegsen, LATAM Organizer Jose Berrios and Vermont.NET User Group Leader Julia Lerman. Carl and Mark kept the entertainment level up for us. This is slated to be released Monday, June 23rd. Many of the INETA Speakers have been featured on past .NET Rocks! shows as well as other big names in .NET. You can download past shows from their website. User Group Relations Committee is growing In order to accommodate the rapid growth of INETA, the User Group Relations Committee is expanding and reorganizing its ranks. We are bringing more people on board to act as liaisons to our user group members. Our goal is to make sure that all of you have a personal contact with INETA. In the U.S., each person is assigned a handful of states in their own area. We also have two people assigned to Canada. Watch for emails from these committee members introducing themselves. Next month we will list the committee members and their assignments in this newsletter. Thanks to new committee member, Manny Dennis, leader of Know.NET in New Orleans, LA for taking on the much needed role of Assistant Editor for this newsletter. 13 New Speakers added to Speaker Bureau At the end of May, the Speaker Committee announced the addition of 13 new people to the Speakers Bureau. Details about these folks are on the Speaker page of the INETA site. Here are their names.
Visual Basic .NET – "Summer of Love"
Free ListServ for your User Group INETA Speaker Steven Smith, who also runs the ASPAlliance online community has set up a place for free mailing list listservs for your user group. Once the Mailing List has been created for your group, members can sign up to participate in it and they will have an easy way of communicating with each other. The mailing lists will be listed on the ASPAlliance site here, which could allow another avenue for potential members to find out about the user group (since the host, AspAdvice gets a lot of traffic). If you'd like a list for your user group, please contact Steve at ssmith@aspalliance.com. If desired, the lists can be moderated to protect against SPAM, and in any event your members' emails will not be used for any other purpose. New in User Group Specials Want great deals on stuff you really need?
Visit the Specials page at INETA.ORG for these and other great deals Special Thanks to Our Supporters INETA wishes to thank the following companies for their support of the User Group Leader Conference held at TechEd in Dallas, Texas. Their generosity is greatly appreciated and helped to make this a memorable event!
Moscow User Group hosts .NET Day Mike Yasnev from the Bauman Moscow State Technical University .NET Developers Group (BMSTU.NET) sent us the following news from his user group. On May 19th, BMSTU .NET, with support from Microsoft, organized the .NET Day conference in the Bauman Moscow State Technical University. You can find a report with photos about this conference (special version in English) on our site. There were the following interesting events at this conference: Student Projects Cup Students presented their works implemented on
.NET. The projects of the winners are available for download with sources: Over 250 students and teachers attended the conference. They found it very interesting and wanted to repeat it next year. .NET News The final release of ASP.NET Version 1.1 is now available for download. ASP.NET V1.1 has many great new features including: IIS 6.0 integration, mobile device support through built-in mobile controls, and improved ISP hosting support. See more at www.asp.net. Web Matrix (Reloaded) - Yes even the ASP.Net team is making this joke! The new version of Web Matrix is available. Initial reviews are great. Check it out! In the INETA online Forums There have been some interesting chats in the INETA forums. User Group Leaders have discussed how to get people to RSVP for meetings, sharing books in their libraries, and the Community Starter Kit. There was also a silly thread about Dave Totzke's (www.cttdnug.org) mission to have more posts in the forums than Julie Lerman (www.vtdotnet.org). These are two very talkative people, so it is a tough contest! All in good fun!!
Keep those presentations coming into the INETA Repository! The INETA repository has already proved to be a great resource for many user group leaders. Keep the content coming! Upload presentations and other documents you would like to share with your fellow UG Leaders. Community Starter Kit in Full Release The Community Starter Kit is no longer in Beta. A number of changes have been made. Note that you can not upgrade directly from the beta to the full release mode. Read more here and don't forget there is a forum especially dedicated to the CSK on the www.asp.net website here. Anyone can sign up to receive this newsletter on the home page of www.ineta.org. Archived newsletters are available on the INETA website on the Repository page. Please send news (and pictures) from your user group so we can include it in a future newsletter! Contact us at: ugrelations@ineta.org We welcome your feedback on this newsletter. Please contact ugrelations@ineta.org. Read our privacy policy on our website. 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
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of the morning of June 12th here is the status.Julie claims "Not
fair!" over Dave's sleazy use of "how do I get more posts than
Julie" messages just to bolster up the count. 
