Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group

July 21, 2010

2010 Executive OfficersPresident – David GiardVice-President – John HopkinsTreasurer – Kent FehribachSecretary – Gerhard Weiss

Chris Roland, WebmasterShelly Noll, Poet LaureateJennifer Marsman, Microsoft Liaison

2010 Volunteers

How to contact uswww.migang.orgBoard email

president@migang.orgvp@migang.orgsecretary@migang.orgtreasurer@migang.orgwebmaster@migang.orgpr@migang.org

This month’s sponsor

User Group Support Services

Gold SponsorCash support for GANGMonthly drawing for Telerik Premium

Collection for .NETRadControls for ASP.NET AJAXRadControls for WinFormsRadControls for WPFRadControls for SilverlightTelerik ReportingTelerik OpenAccess ORM$1299 Value!

Annual Sponsor

Sponsors

Sponsors

Discounts for our membersManning

www.Manning.com36% offEnter discount code “UG367”

MSDN Magazine20% off subscription

1 Year (12 issues) $35.00 $28.00 2 year (24 issues) $60.00 $48.00

(866)‐293‐3194Promo code: A0EUG1

INETA OffersPluralsight

Free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! Library

tinyurl.com/PSGuestPassWrox/Wiley

40% off select Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0 books to user group members through 6/30.

See the list at ineta.org/offers UUse promo code WVS10

O’Reilly45% off ebook purchases from O’Reilly for a limited time35% off print book purchases for user group membersUse discount code DSUG when ordering onlineoreilly.com/store

Supporting MembersMember

Last Renewal

Sponsoring Member Since

David Abraham 8/19/2009 8/19/2009

Joe Anger 6/15/2010 6/15/2010

Mark Barkey 1/20/2010 9/15/2004

Stanislav Bashtavenko

8/19/2010 8/19/2010

Robert Boorum 6/15/2010 6/15/2010

Onorio Catenacci 11/18/2009

11/18/2009

Norm Cohen 10/21/2009

10/21/2009

Jim Donahue 5/19/2010 12/16/2008

Russell Drown 4/21/2010 4/21/2010

Kent Fehribach 1/10/2010 11/19/2008

David Giard 1/20/2010 11/19/2008

Darren Gussin 2/17/2010 11/19/2003

John Hopkins 1/20/2010 6/18/2003

Richard Irwin 11/18/2009

5/21/2003

Supporting MembersMember

Last Renewal

Sponsoring Member Since

Richard Jackson 10/21/2009

1/21/2004

Jennifer Marsman 10/21/2009

10/21/2009

Richard Miga 11/18/2009

11/16/2005

Paul Mrozowski 11/18/2009

11/18/2009

Evan Nielsin 11/18/2009

11/18/2009

Lena Nilsson 11/18/2009

2/15/2006

Shelly Noll 4/21/2010 4/21/2010

Tim O'Connell 2/17/2010 5/16/2007

Stasys Sadeika 11/18/2009

11/19/2008

Patrick Steele 11/18/2009

11/17/2004

Lindell Stephens 11/18/2009

11/18/2009

Michael Stoyanovich

4/21/2010 3/17/2009

R.T. Vega 4/21/2010 1/18/2006

Gerhard Weiss 5/19/2010 3/19/2008

Y. K. Yeung 6/17/2009 6/17/2009

2010 GANG Goals

Get members more engaged and involvedIncrease meeting attendance by 50%Increase supporting membership by 30%Continue to attract high-quality speakersIncrease sponsorship by 100%Finish year in the black financially

Any First-Time Attendees?

Upcoming GANG MeetingsDate Topic Speaker

August 18 Test Professional 2010& Lab Management 2010

Randy Pagels

September 15

Introduction to Unit Testing Jim Holmes

October 20 Line of BusinessApplication Development with Microsoft CRM

Chet Kloss

January 19 Windows Phone 7 Development Nino Benvenuti

Group Date Topic Link

Greater Detroit Cloud Computing UG

Aug 2 Cloud Computing and Microsoft's Windows Azure

tinyurl.com/DetroitCloudUG

Greater Lansing .Net UG

Aug 19

glugnet.org

Silverlight UG tinyurl.com/MiSilverlight

CUFP- Michigan tinyurl.com/FuncMi

W. Michigan .Net UG Aug 10

WmDotNet.org

Ann Arbor .Net UG Aug 11

aadnd.org

Flint .Net UG glugnet.org

SE Michigan SQL Server UG

Aug 12

tinyurl.com/SeMiSql

NW Ohio .Net UG Aug 17

Oracle/SQL Server Smackdown

NwNug.com

SE Michigan Powershell Club

Aug 17

MichiganPowershell.com

SharePoint User Group

Aug 10

Other User Groups

Upcoming Events

What Where When Link

DevLink Nashville, TN Aug 5-7 tinyurl.com/DevLink

Cincinnati Day of Agile Mason, OH Aug 14 cincydayofagile.org

Grand Rapids Barcamp Grand Rapids, MI

Aug 20-21

tinyurl.com/GrBarCamp

Ann Arbor Give Camp Ann Arbor, MI Sep 17-19

tinyurl.com/aaGiveCamp

140Conf Detroit, MI Oct 20 detroit2010.140conf.com

Ann Arbor Give CampSeptember 17-19Washtenaw Community CollegeAnnArborGiveCamp.org

This is an informal meetup of people interested in learning from one another. Bring your laptop and pair up with someone to work on an open source project, learn a new technique, or even dabble in a new language. There is no agenda or specific topic, just a time set aside for people to pair.”Source: http://mvwood.com/blog/bitslingers-4-6-2009/

• Pair Coding;Idea Exchange

• Tech Book Exchange• Wed July 28

6-9PM• Biggby Coffee,

26185 Evergreen Rd.

TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers

Motor City Codeslingers

CafePress.com/MiGang

Job Announcements

• Local Job Openings• Developers Looking for Work

Keeping in Touch www.migang.org www.migang.org/news.rss twitter.com/gangannounce bit.ly/GANG_LinkedIn_Group bit.ly/GANG_Upcoming_Meetings bit.ly/GANG_Google_Calendar_html

BizSpark and WebSiteSparkLow-cost Microsoft software for small businessesMicrosoft.com/BizSparkMicrosoft.com/WebSiteSpark

Some Good Programs

Social Hour• Immediately following

this meeting• Not a sponsored event!

Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant27522 Northwestern Hwy

Fabulous Prizes!

“Few things in life are more enjoyablethan giving away stuffthat somebody else paid for.”

-David Giard GANG President

Fabulous Prizes!Sponsor Prize Qty

Telerik Premium Collection 1

Telerik Ultimate Collection 1

DevExpress CodeRush + Refactor 2

JetBrains Resharper 1

JetBrains DotTrace 1

TekPub 1-Month Subscription 3

TechSmith SnagIt 1

TechSmith Camtasia Studio 1

LearnVisualStudio.net 1-month subscription 1

O’Reilly ASP.Net and AJAX: Architecting by D. Esposito

1

Manning NHibernate In Action by Kaute et al

1

Addison Wesley Effective C# by Bill Wagner

2

DevExpress T-shirts 4

Microsoft T-shirt 1

ComponentOne Stocking Caps 2

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