Gang Announcements February 2010
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Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group
February 17, 2010
2010 Executive Officers
• President – David Giard• Vice-President – John Hopkins• Treasurer – Kent Fehribach• Secretary – Gerhard Weis
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
Badge Sponsor
Other 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
John Hopkins 1/20/2010 6/18/2003
Richard Irwin 11/18/2009 5/21/2003
Richard Jackson 10/21/2009 1/21/2004
Bob Karaban 2/18/2009 2/18/2009
Chris Kotsis 2/18/2009 7/21/2004
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
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
Kevin Swiber 2/18/2009 2/18/2009
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
Mar 17 Windows 7 for Developers Jennifer Marsman
Apr 21 Testing for the Web Jeff McWherter
May 19 F# and Functional Programming for C# Developers
Chris Marinos
Other User Groups
Group Next Meeting
Topic
Greater Lansing .Net UG Feb 18 Testing for the Web (J. McPherson)
W. Michigan .Net UG Mar 9 Visual Studio and TFS 2010 (R Pagels)
Ann Arbor .Net UG Mar 10 Prism (B Genesio)
Flint .Net UG Mar 11
SE Michigan SQL Server UG Mar 11
NW Ohio .Net UG Mar 15 A Lap Around PDC (J Marsman)
Upcoming EventsWhat Where When Link
Software Engineering 101 Nashville, TN(and online)
Feb 27 tinyurl.com/sw101
Ignite Lansing Lansing, MI Mar 5 tinyulr.com/IgniteL
Day of Mobile Chicago, IL Mar 6 tinyulr.com/DayOfMobile
Lansing Give Camp Lansing, MI Mar 26-28 tinyurl.com/LansingGC
Kalamazoo X Kalamazoo, MI Apr 10 tinyurl.com/KzooX
Silverlight Firestarter Grand Rapids, MI Apr 17 tinyurl.com/SLFire
Pittsburgh Code Camp Pittsburgh, PA Apr 17 tinyurl.com/PittCodeCamp
Mobile Firestarter Mason, OH Apr 24 tinyurl.com/MobileFS
Cincinnati Day of Agile Mason, OH May 15 tinyulr.com/CinAgile
Stir Trek 2 Columbus, OH May 7 tinyurl.com/StirTrek
CodeStock Knoxville, TN Jun 25-26 tinyurl.com/CodeStock
Ann Arbor Give Camp Ann Arbor, MI Jul 17-19 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 Feb 246-9PM
• Biggby Coffee, 26185 Evergreen Rd.
Motor City Codeslingers
TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers
Job Announcements
• Local Job Openings• Developers Looking for Work
Keeping in Touch
• GANG RSS News Feed • Google Stuff!
• Calendar: Look for “migang”• Groups: Look for “migang”
• Visit www.migang.org• Twitter: @gangannounce
Some good programs
• Elevate America– Free IT Training from Michigan Works
• BizSpark– Low-cost Microsoft software for small businesses
• OakGovChallenge– Web and Mobile Dev contest for Oakland County– $10,000 in prizes– OakGovChallenge.com
Fabulous Prizes!
Social Hour
• Immediately following this meeting
• Not a sponsored event!
Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant27522 Northwestern Hwy