Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group

May 19, 2010

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

Webmaster – Chris RolandDay of .Net

Shelly Noll, Richard Irwin

2010 Volunteers

How to contact uswww.migang.orgBoard email

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

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

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

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

Richard Jackson 10/21/2009

1/21/2004

Jennifer Marsman 10/21/2009

10/21/2009

Supporting MembersMember

Last Renewal

Sponsoring 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

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

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 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?

Membership Drive

January – June 20101 Entry for each meeting attended1 Entry for each new guest you bring*Grand prize drawing at June meetingGrand Prize: Zune HD

* A new guest is someone who has not attended a GANG meeting in the previous 12 months

Fine Print 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.

Membership Drive

June ExtravaganzaBill Wagner presents “Real World C# 4.0”Sponsored by New World SystemsQdoba Burrito BarZune HD giveaway

Upcoming GANG Meetings

Date Topic Speaker

June 16 Real World C# 4.0 Bill Wagner

August 18 Test Professional 2010& Lab Management 2010

Randy Pagels

September 15

Introduction to Unit Testing Jim Holmes

January 19 Windows Phone 7 Development Nino Benvenuti

Other User Groups

Group Next Meeting

Topic

Greater Lansing .Net UG May 19 Visual Studio 2010

W. Michigan .Net UG June 8

Ann Arbor .Net UG June 9 Real World C# 4.0

Flint .Net UG June 10

SE Michigan SQL Server UG

June 10

NW Ohio .Net UG June 15

Upcoming Events

What Where When Link

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 May 266-9PM

• 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

OakGovChallengeWeb and Mobile Dev contest for Oakland County$10,000 in prizesOakGovChallenge.comContest closes June 11

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 Control Suite 1

DevExpress CodeRush + Refactor 2

JetBrains Resharper 1

Red Gate Ants Memory Profiler 1

TekPub 1-Month Subscription

2

TekPub 1-Year Subscription 1

TechSmith SnagIt 1

TechSmith Camtasia Studio 1

TechSmith Pens lots

Codestock Admission 1

LearnVisualStudio.net 1-month subscription 1

Microsoft Book 1

O’Reilly Book 1

Manning Book 1

Apress Book 2

DevExpress T-shirts 4

Microsoft Hats and t-shirts 2