INETA, in conjunction with Global IT Community Assocation (formerly Culminis), is excited to be organizing the Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions at TechEd 2010. The volunteer organizing team from both groups has lined up some great sessions. This year there will be two rooms (#354 and #355), one oriented towards developer and the other towards IT pro topics.

Each BOF session will be an open discussion on a technology topic, no lectures, slides or code. Check out the details in the TechEd online session catalogue at http://northamerica.msteched.com/Topic/List using Session Type "Birds-of-a-Feather". If you are going to TechEd please come by and share your experiences and learn from your peers.

Schedule

Monday 6/7/2010
1:00PM	How Will Cloud Computing Change Your Life?
1:00PM	Hardware Enhancements for the Microsoft Collaboration Infrastructure
2:45PM	What's Really Happening with Agile Teams in the Wild?
2:45PM	Best Practices for Windows Client Management
4:30PM	The jQuery Phenomenon: What Has It Done for You and Where Will It Take Us?
4:30PM	Managing and Recruiting Technical Talent
Tuesday 6/8/2010
8:00AM	Starting Your Own Technology Business or Becoming a Consultant in 2010 and Beyond
8:00AM	To Certify or Not to Certify: That Is the Question
9:45AM	Microsoft ASP.NET MVC: Share Your Stories from the Trenches
9:45AM	Planning Out Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Deployment
1:30PM	Where Will Microsoft Silverlight Take Front-End Development?
1:30PM	IPv6: Time to Wake Up!
3:15PM	What is Next for Green Development, Architecture, SQL Pros and IT Pros?
3:15PM	Mobile Technology Has Reached the Masses: What Impact Does That Have on Developers and IT Professionals?
5:00PM	How Are YOU Using Windows Azure?
5:00PM	Migrating Your Applications to Microsoft App-V: The Good, the Bad, and the Incompatible
Wednesday 6/9/2010
8:00AM	Stop Drowning In Technical Debt!
8:00AM	Document Imaging for Microsoft SharePoint
9:45AM	PowerPivot: Is It the BI Deal-Changer for Developers and IT Pros?
9:45AM	Microsoft SharePoint Adoption Strategies: Pushing the Firehose
1:30PM	Behavior-Driven Development in the Wild
1:30PM	IT Going to the Cloud: Are We Crazy?
3:15PM	How Secure Are Your Applications in the World of Hackers and Cloud Computing?
3:15PM	Small Business: Shifting from Services to a Recurring Revenue Model
5:00PM	How Do You Build or Strengthen Local Developer and IT Pro Communities?
5:00PM	Can Virtualization Be the Biggest Solution for all IT Problems?
Thursday 6/10/2010
8:00AM	Claims-Based Identity
8:00AM	Your Ultimate Technology Toolkit
9:45AM	Microsoft ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.0: What's Your Take?
9:45AM	Architecting Complex SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure
1:30PM	SQL vs. NoSQL: Where's the Beef?
1:30PM	Microsoft Exchange Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery: Are You Prepared?
3:15PM	Enabling the Ambient Cloud with the Windows Azure Platform AppFabric Service Bus
3:15PM	Hypervisor-Based Storage Virtualization
5:00PM	Microsoft SharePoint Performance Myths, Tips, and Tricks!
5:00PM	.NET Development on Linux, Mac, iPhone, and More with Mono

Need to Promote your Events? Try Community Megaphone!

If you've ever wondered if there are additional ways for you to promote your user group and related events, here's one you may want to try. Community Megaphone is a site created by Microsoft Developer Evangelist G. Andrew Duthie to help the community find and promote local events. The goal for Community Megaphone is simplicity, so we focus exclusively on events. Want to add your event? No registration required, just go to the Add Event page, put in your information, and go. We'll make sure everything looks good and then put it up on the system.

Once your event is in the system, potential attendees can find out about it via the Community Megaphone home page, the RSS feed, an iCalendar feed, a customizable web gadget used in many sites across the web, and in the bi-weekly MSDN Flash newsletter. Events entered into Community Megaphone are also automatically shared with the User Group Support Services event calendar (and vice-versa, for US-based events).

If you'd like to integrate Community Megaphone events into your site or application, we provide a variety of ways to consume the data, including the aforementioned RSS feed, and our OData feed for approved events. Additionally, you can add your events to Community Megaphone programmatically via our Web Service API (registration required for API use).

Are there other features that could make your lives easier? Let us know via the Feedback page. Now's a great time to provide feedback, as we're ramping up on our planning for V2 of Community Megaphone, and we want to make sure we make the site even easier to use, and provide more ways to get the word out about your events.

Last, but not least, we recently launched the Community Megaphone Podcast. The podcast is the brainchild of Dane Morgridge, who, with co-host Andrew, highlights local talent and personalities in the .NET community, giving up-and-coming speakers an opportunity to share their interests, knowledge, and community background, and listeners an opportunity to get to know folks that they may get to see speak at their local group or code camp. Know of someone who should be a guest, please let us know!

Greetings from the INETA Champs Team!

As the 2nd Quarter of 2010 draws to a close, we want to remind you to let us know what you have been doing to support your communities. Additionally be sure to let us know about others in your area that have gone above and beyond by nominating them. Get more details online at http://www.inetachamps.com. Remember the deadline for submissions is June 30 2010.

devscovery Register for Devscovery 2010 Today! Plan to attend Devscovery 2010 in Redmond September 14th -16th and get 3 days of in-depth .NET content from industry experts like Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, and John Robbins. Registration code IDC. For more information or to register visit www.devscovery.com.

Upcoming Conferences
Tech·Ed North America 2010	New Orleans	LA	06/07-10/10
devLink 2010	Nashville	TN	08/05-07/10
SharePoint Saturdays
SharePoint Saturday Ozarks	Harrison	AR	06/12/10
SharePoint Saturday Tampa	Tampa	FL	06/26/10
SharePoint Saturday Chicago	Chicago	IL	07/24/10
SharePoint Saturday NYC	NYC	NY	07/31/10
SQL Saturdays
SQL Saturday Pensacola	Pensacola	FL	06/05/10
SQL Saturday Redmond	Redmond	WA	06/12/10
SQL Saturday Columbus	Columbus	OH	06/26/10
SQL Saturday Phoenix	Phoenix	AZ	07/17/10
SQL Saturday South Florida	Miramar	FL	07/31/10
Code Camps and Other Events
SoCal Code Camp	San Diego	CA	6/26/10, 6/27/10
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