Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group

March 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

– president@migang.org– vp@migang.org– secretary@migang.org– treasurer@migang.org– webmaster@migang.org– pr@migang.org

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

New Sponsors

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

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

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

Apr 21 Testing for the Web Jeff McWherter

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 18 Jay Harris presents“ASP.NET MVC : A Web Coder's Salvation”

W. Michigan .Net UG Apr 13

Ann Arbor .Net UG Apr 14 Jeff Blankenburg presents“MIX 2010 Highlights”

Flint .Net UG Apr 15

SE Michigan SQL Server UG Apr 8

NW Ohio .Net UG Apr 20 Jeff Blankenburg presents“MIX 2010 Highlights”

Upcoming Events

What Where When Link

Lansing Give Camp Lansing, MI Mar 26-28 tinyurl.com/LansingGC

Azure Boot Camp Southfield, MI Mar 30-31 tinyurl.com/AzureBoot

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

Ann Arbor Day of .Net Ann Arbor, MI May 1 tinyurl.com/Dodn2010

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 Mar 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

• 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

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 Visual Studio 2008 5

Microsoft Office 2007 Standard 2

Telerik Control Suite 1

DevExpress CodeRush + Refactor 2

JetBrains ResharperPro 1

TekPub 1-Month Subscription 3

Red Gate ANTS Profiler 1

Microsoft “Win 7 for Developers’’ book 3

O’Reilly Book 1

Manning Book 1

Apress Book 1

DevExpress Book 1

DevExpress T-shirts 4

Fabulous Prizes!