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Transcript of Gang announcements April 2010
Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group
April 21, 2010
2010 Executive Officers
• President – David Giard• Vice-President – John Hopkins• Treasurer – Kent Fehribach• Secretary – Gerhard Weiss
• Webmaster – Chris Roland• Day of .Net - ?
2010 Volunteers
How to contact us
• www.migang.org• Board email
– [email protected]– [email protected]– [email protected]– [email protected]– [email protected]– [email protected]
Gold Sponsor
• Cash support for GANG• Monthly drawing for Telerik
Premium Collection for .NET– RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX– RadControls for WinForms– RadControls for WPF– RadControls for Silverlight– Telerik Reporting– Telerik OpenAccess ORM– $1299 Value!
Annual Sponsor
Sponsors
Sponsors
Supporting Members
Member Last RenewalSponsoring Member
Since
David Abraham 8/19/2009 8/19/2009
Mark Barkey 1/20/2010 9/15/2004
Stanislav Bashtavenko 8/19/2009 8/19/2009
Onorio Catenacci 11/18/2009 11/18/2009
Norm Cohen 10/21/2009 10/21/2009
Bob Cross 6/17/2009 6/17/2009
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
Richard Jackson 10/21/2009 1/21/2004
Jennifer Marsman 10/21/2009 10/21/2009
Supporting Members
Member Last RenewalSponsoring Member
Since
Marc McVey 6/17/2009 6/17/2009
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
Tim O'Connell 2/17/2010 5/16/2007
Gary Powell 4/15/2009 6/16/2004
Stasys Sadeika 11/18/2009 11/19/2008
Stasys Sadeika 6/17/2009 11/19/2008
Patrick Steele 11/18/2009 11/17/2004
Lindell Stephens 11/18/2009 11/18/2009
Michael Stoyanovich 3/17/2009 3/17/2009
R.T. Vega 4/15/2009 1/18/2006
Gerhard Weiss 5/20/2009 3/19/2008
Y. K. Yeung 6/17/2009 6/17/2009
2010 GANG Goals
• Get members more engaged and involved• Increase meeting attendance by 50%• Increase supporting membership by 30%• Continue to attract high-quality speakers• Increase sponsorship by 100%• Finish year in the black financially
Any First-Time Attendees?
Membership Drive
• January – June 2010• 1 Entry for each meeting attended• 1 Entry for each new guest you bring*• Grand prize drawing at June meeting• Grand Prize: Zune HD
* A new guest is someone who has not attended a GANG meeting in the previous 12 months
• At each meeting, be sure the GANG Secretary has recorded your attendance, your e-mail address and the names and e-mail addresses of any new guests you bring.
• For each meeting you attend (January-June 2010) you will receive an entry into a drawing.
• For each new guest you bring to a meeting, you will receive an additional entry. • A new guest is one who has not attended a meeting in at least 12 months.• A new guest may be considered a guest of at most one member.• Once a guest has attended a meeting they are no longer considered new;
However, they may increase their own odds of winning by attending more meetings and bringing new guests of their own.
• No circular references allowed (aka, two new people can’t show up together and put that they were each referred by the other).
• A drawing will be held at the June meeting. • The winner will receive a Zune HD, courtesy of Microsoft.• You must be present at the June meeting in order to win.
Fine PrintMembership Drive
Upcoming GANG Meetings
Date Topic Speaker
May 19 F# and Functional Programming for C# Developers
Chris Marinos
June 16 Real World C# 4.0 Bill Wagner
Special GANG Meeting
• Monday April 26, 2010– Cameron Skinner presents
New Architecture Tools in Visual Studio 2010
Other User Groups
Group Next Meeting
Topic
Greater Lansing .Net UG Apr 22 JavaScript is Real Code: SOLID and TDD in the Browser
W. Michigan .Net UG May 11
Ann Arbor .Net UG May 12 ASP.Net MVC: A Web Coder’s Salvation
Flint .Net UG May 13 JavaScript is Real Code: SOLID and TDD in the Browser
SE Michigan SQL Server UG May 13 SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)
NW Ohio .Net UG May 18 Testing ASP.Net Web Applications
Greater Lansing .Net UG May 20 NoSQL: I can't relate to my database, anymore
Upcoming Events
What Where When Link
Visual Studio Launch Party Grand Rapids, MI Apr 22 tinyurl.com/GRVSLaunch
Mobile Firestarter Mason, OH Apr 24 tinyurl.com/MobileFS
Ann Arbor Day of .Net Ann Arbor, MI May 1 tinyurl.com/Dodn2010
Stir Trek 2 Columbus, OH May 7 tinyurl.com/StirTrek
Cincinnati Day of Agile Mason, OH May 15 tinyurl.com/CinAgile
Visual Studio 2010 Launch Detroit, MI May 25 tinyurl.com/VSLaunch
Cloud Camp Detroit Detroit, MI May 26 tinyurl.com/CloudCampDet
Central Ohio Day of .Net Wilmington, OH Jun 5 tinyurl.com/CODODN10
CodeStock Knoxville, TN Jun 25-26 tinyurl.com/CodeStock
Ann Arbor Give Camp Ann Arbor, MI Jul 9-11 tinyurl.com/aaGiveCamp
DevLink Nashville, TN Aug 5-7 tinyurl.com/DevLink
“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
• Wed Apr 286-9PM
• Biggby Coffee, 26185 Evergreen Rd.
Motor City Codeslingers
TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers
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 WebSiteSpark– Low-cost Microsoft software for small businesses– Microsoft.com/BizSpark– Microsoft.com/WebSiteSpark
• OakGovChallenge– Web and Mobile Dev contest for Oakland County– $10,000 in prizes– OakGovChallenge.com
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
Sponsor Prize Qty
Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard 1
Telerik Control Suite 1
DevExpress CodeRush + Refactor 2
JetBrains ResharperPro 1
TekPub 1-Month Subscription 2
TekPub 1-Year Subscription 1
TechSmith SnagIt 1
Wrox & Jeff McWherter McWherter/Hall book
Microsoft Book 1
O’Reilly Book 1
Manning Book 1
Apress Book 2
DevExpress T-shirts
Microsoft Hats and t-shirts
Fabulous Prizes!