gang announcements may 2010
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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
[email protected]@[email protected]@[email protected]@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