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Tech·Ed North America 2010 - Leadership Summit |
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INETA Community Leadership Summit will be taking place on Sunday June 6th at 1PM at Tech·Ed North America in New Orleans.
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INETA is hosting a free Community Leadership Summit in New Orleans at the
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Sunday June 6th at 1:00 PM prior to
the start of Tech·Ed 2010. The summit is open to Community Leaders from the
area, as well as those attending Tech·Ed from across the country and around
the world. It is an excellent opportunity for exchanging information and
ideas.
If you are a user group leader, or are involved in the leadership, planning,
promotion, or day-to-day operations of a user group community, this event is
for YOU! The summit is an open forum to share ideas, discuss common
challenges, and gain from the experience of other leaders. INETA Community
Leadership summits are part of an ongoing effort by INETA to create, improve
and share resources designed to strengthen individual user groups and the
community. This meeting will be the perfect opportunity to meet leaders from
other groups, benefit from their success stories, and expand your network of
contacts.
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Quick FAQs
- Who can attend?
Any leader or volunteer of any INETA User Group.
- Do I need to be attending Tech·Ed?
No, you do NOT need to purchase a pass for Tech·Ed to attend the Leadership Summit.
- What does it cost to attend?
There is NO cost to attend summit, but the knowledge that will be available about User Groups will be priceless.
- I want to help out, who do I contact?
Send an email to julie.yack@ineta.org if you are interested.
- I want to attend, where do I register?
We are putting together a registration link now, it will be published in a future newsletter and on the website.
- What will the format of the summit be?
The summit will be like our Birds of a Feather Sessions but focused on User Group topics. Moderators will be armed with some broad topics to kick off the conversation, however the real value of these sessions is getting the chance to learn from each other.
- What topics will be covered?
We are thinking of focusing on 4 areas: Running a User Group, Effective Content and Presenters, User Group Promotion and Developing Partnerships. However the agenda is yours! If there is a topic you want to see covered, or a topic that you would like to lead then email us julie.yack@ineta.org.
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta |
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The Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta v2 on February 27 was the epitome of community and teamwork. Last year's event started as your basic Code Camp that then grew by SQL and Windows tracks. Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta v2 was a day full of .NET sessions, SQL sessions, Windows sessions, SharePoint sessions with a side of pizza. The event was free to attend and sponsor organizations made sure all attendees were well fed and left with plenty of swag and goodies.
We started at 7:30 am with (early) Birds of a Feather sessions while we set up breakfast and registration. At 8am our hearing impaired attendees started to arrive and since our interpreters had cancelled last minute they just started their own sessions; Joe Wilson shared his Unit Testing and Mocking session and Drew DeVault interpreted. By 9am we had checked in and directed over 400 attendees to the four different keynotes.
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Presenter James Johnson had technical difficulties but quickly overcame the lack of projector by displaying his laptop screen with a document camera.
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We had invited Scott Guthrie (aka "The Gu") and he had to turn us down. But he was a great sport and let us video some fun footage for our .NET keynote. We "kidnapped" and "interrogated" him for details about Visual Studio 2010 and the keynote focused on new technologies that helped to locate and save The Gu. We had Steve Lange organize the team with TFS, Scott Golightly put the "www.savethegu.com" site in Azure, Beth Massi managed the double agents via a SharePoint site, Keith Brown covered security and David Yack used Silverlight in a Bing Maps application to locate The Gu at the interrogation site. We even had an impersonator in a red polo.
The event hosts, Metro State College of Denver, requested a beginner track, level 100 learning. Kathleen Dollard, Jeff Certain, Ben Hoelting and Drew DeVault organized a full day of beginner sessions and their room was full all day. Our beginners were all given DreamSpark subscriptions. We had attendees in the sessions that were of all ages and a presenter that is 16 years old.
Our presenters came from all over the country and we had attendees from coast to coast. There were evaluations that said sessions were too long and some said too short. Some said show more code, some said show less. The great thing about our day was the cross-technology sessions. A DBA probably wouldn't attend a Code Camp; a developer would avoid a SQL PASS camp. But if all the sessions were in the same place on the same day, they would likely attend sessions from other technologies beside their chose field and gain a greater awareness of the other dependent technologies that need to work together.
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105 pizzas gone in less than 60 minutes
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Conference Announcements |
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Devscovery
Register for Devscovery 2010 Today!
Plan to attend Devscovery 2010 in New York April 27th-29th and/or Redmond September 14th -16th and get 3 days of in-depth .NET content from industry experts like Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, and John Robbins. Plus, register by
April 15th and receive $100 off the $900 conference fee - simply use registration code
IDC. For more information or to register visit www.devscovery.com.
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devLink 2010
The devLink Technical Conference (www.devlink.net) invites you to submit session topics to be presented at this year’s DEVLINK 2010 event taking place
August 5-7 in Nashville, TN. The DEVLINK 2010 Call for Speakers is now open and is accessible to anyone, so please feel free to forward or publish this information.
DEVLINK 2010 considers all sessions based on the content so you don't necessarily need previous speaking experience at large events to be considered. This is a great way to prepare yourself for larger events like Tech·Ed. The devLink Technical Conference is a large event with approximately 675 attendees in 2009.
The submission deadline is April 1, 2010 but don't wait until then. Download the speaker application from http://www.devlink.net
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Upcoming Speaker Bureau Events |
| Lubbock .Net User Group | Lubbock | TX | Jeffrey Palermo | 03/29/10 |
| Ozarks DNUG | Harrison | AR | Claudio Lassala | 04/01/10 |
| Northern Colorado .NET Special Interest Group | Fort Collins | CO | Stuart Celarier | 04/12/10 |
| Florida .NET - Miramar | Miramar | FL | Scott Cate | 04/13/10 |
| Central Florida .NET User Group | Lakeland | FL | Scott Cate | 04/14/10 |
| Orlando .NET User Group | Orlando | FL | Scott Cate | 04/15/10 |
| Hawaii Dot NET Users Group | Honolulu | HI | Kathleen Dollard | 04/21/10 |
| Lincoln .NET Users Group | Lincoln | NE | Kathleen Dollard | 04/28/10 |
| Wichita Developers .NET | Wichita | KS | Kathleen Dollard | 04/29/10 |
| Cedar Valley .NET User Group (CVINETA) | Cedar Falls | IA | Wally McClure | 05/05/10 |
| CINCYSQL | Mason | OH | Jim Wooley | 05/13/10 |
| Lower Alabama .NET User Group | Mobile | AL | Jim Wooley | 05/18/10 |
| Capital Area .NET Users Group | Vienna | VA | Jason Bock | 05/25/10 |
| Omaha Microsoft Technology Group | Omaha | NE | Brian Noyes | 05/27/10 |
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