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19 groups
joined INETA in April. These groups are located in:
LATAM: Argentina, Brazil (3 new
groups), Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela
NORAM: In Canada: Quebec;
in the U.S.: California, Texas, Michigan and
Wisconsin
Europe: Germany (2 new
groups), Greece, Norway, Russia, U.K.
There are
currently 539 member groups in INETA representing over
200,000 user group members around the world!
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Please be
sure to keep your user group data up to date on the
INETA website. Your group's website URL, your contact
information and your group size are important pieces of
information. If people are going to the INETA website to
find a user group, and your link is broken, they won't
be able to find you. You must be logged in to the INETA
website to gain access to edit your information. Click
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Editor:
Julia Lerman
[INETA User Group Relations Committee Co-Chair, Vermont .NET User
Group Leader, .NET MVP]
Designer: Sheri
Nawrocki [INETA Marketing Commitee, Florida .NET Group
Leader, .NET Developer, Graphic Designer]
Coordinator: Robert Holmes, Boston .NET User
Group
Special Thanks to Our
Contributors: Marcie Robillard, Dave
Noderer, Sara Faatz, Bruce Thomas, Jason Bunting and
Brian Loesgen
Anyone can sign up to
receive this newsletter on the home page of www.ineta.org
Archived newsletters are available on the INETA
website at www.ineta.org/newsletters
Please send news (and pictures) from your user
group so we can include it in a future newsletter!
Contact us at:
newsletter@ineta.org.
We welcome your feedback on this newsletter.
Please contact newsletter@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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 Kicking off the popular
interactive sessions on Sunday night at 6pm is .NET
Rocks featuring Carl Franklin, Rory Blythe and the
attendees to discuss... "The Future!"
Following the .NET Rocks session on Sunday and
continuing on Tuesday and Wednesday nights are a series
of topics that will be of interest to many TechEd
attendees. These informal sessions are not presentations
and have been designed to allow interaction between
people with similar interests (although opinions may
vary!!).
Other scheduled topics include: The Smart Client is
Back, Code Generation: So What?, Defensive Development
with .NET, The One Armed Bandit, Virtual Server and
Server Migration, Application Security - Developing Code
Without Administrator Privileges, Object-Relational
Persistence for .NET, Design Considerations for Tablet
PC Applications, Continuous Integration in .NET,
Integrating Unit Testing tools and practices into the
Software Development Life Cycle, RFID and how it can
benefit consumers and businesses, Home Automation with
.NET, What really annoys me about .NET the most!, Thawte
Notarization & PGP Key Signing Party, Microsoft.Com
Technical Communities, Teaching .Net beyond VB.Net,
Service Orientation vs. Object Orientation, Patch
Management, .NET Speech, Authenticating and Authorizing
Web Users, Implementing Microsoft Content Management
Server 2002, The One Armed Bandit, Women Who Code :
TechEd Edition, SAP .NET Connector, Working with Oracle
on Windows and .NET, ISA 2000 and ISA 2004 Insiders.
Time slots are still available if you want to host
your own session. Visit www.ineta.org/bof,
select TechEd 2004 and submit an idea for a session. You
can also see the pending and approved session
topics.
To see the latest session schedule visit the TechEd
site at: http://www.msteched.com/content/breakouts.aspx
, you can also find the sessions in the attendee
calendar tool.
Finally we will be needing volunteers to help cover
the sessions each evening.
If you have any questions or would like to volunteer,
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In late April, INETA held
a planning summit in Bangkok. Twenty two user group
leaders from across the Asia-Pacific region were brought
together to discuss and plan the future of INETA in that
part of the world. Countries represented were Thailand,
China, India, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Korea, Australia and New Zealand. The event, led by
Sanjay Shetty (India), Brian Loesgen (US) and Colt Kwong
(Hong Kong) was a huge success. Over the course of 2
packed days, energized discussions occurred, and many
plans were made. At times, the group was joined by
Microsoft representatives from across the region. The
region is poised for explosive growth, and represents a
major expansion opportunity for INETA. INETA-APAC is on
the launch pad, and we have
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 North American user
group leaders will be receiving their semi-annual
shipment of "swag" - the Spring Thaw - this
week. Contents in the box can be used as meeting
giveaways, door prizes, etc. Vendors participating
in this shipment include ComponentOne,
Wiley, .NET
Developers Journal, O'Reilly, CoDe
Magazine, Infragistics,
DeKlarit, Sams
Publishing, Xceed
Software, FMS, MSDN
Magazine, Vista, XMLSpy,
Apress and Xtras.NET .
Comments, questions or concerns? Contact
the marketing committee at marketing@ineta.org.
We hope you enjoy the Spring Thaw!
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 On May 6, 2004, the
Montgomery
Area .NET Developer Group (MADEV) in
Montgomery, Alabama held it's monthly meeting to a
standing room only crowd. It was the best
attendance the group has ever experienced. The
topic was "Integrating Microsoft SQL Server
Reporting Service with .NET applications". The
presentation was given by Bruce Thomas, who is
currently the founder and leader of the MADEV user
group. MADEV was typically averaging about 50-60%
attendance each month, but this month MADEV had
nearly 100% attendance and was able to sign up a
number of new members. Over the past several
months, Bruce has given several presentations on a
range of .NET topics usually to standing room only
crowds and the membership base is growing steadily
each month. "As someone who develops, trains, and
consults on this technology everyday, I try and
assess where our members are having the most
issues and schedule talks and presentations to
address those issues, which in turns drives
attendance to our meeting." - Bruce Thomas.
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Congratulations
to Committee Member and DotNetUsers
leader, Ruth Walther and her [INETA Speaker &
Microsoft Software Legend] husband, Stephen, on
the birth of their new baby girl, Athena, born on
March 6th.
We'd like to thank Ruth for serving as co-chair
of the User Group Relations Committee since last
June. Chris Pels, the leader of Boston .NET
User Group, has recently taken over this
role. The committee's other co-chair, Julie
Lerman, says that she expects Chris to be the
organizational YIN to her seat-of-the-pants
YANG.
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When:
Sunday, May 23, 2004, 8:30 a.m. - 6:00
p.m.
Microsoft created
a 12 minute video for their Global Conference
last year to show their employees how important
User Groups are in the development community as
well as to Microsoft.
