IVBUG Celebrates its Seventh Birthday

Last night, the Israel Visual Basic User Group (IVBUG) celebrated its seventh birthday!  I'll include some pictures from our meeting/party at the end of this post.

I must say, that the continued success of this User Group is something in which I take a lot of pride. Seven years ago, nobody in Israel, certainly not in the Microsoft world, had any idea of what a User Group with monthly meetings was. From speaking to people I knew,  I saw that there was definitely interest, and I also got support/sponsorship from Microsoft. 

Over the years, I made some very good friends from people at these meetings and we looked forward to our monthly live get-together.  I was also fortunate that over the years many different talented and nice people chose to become regular attendees at these meetings.  We have helped each other solve and/or evaluate many tricky problems and issues.

Based on the model and success of this User Group, more than a dozen other groups focussing on MS tools and technologies have started up here.  I hope that they all continue to have as much success, and fun, as I have had, hosting and attending these monthly meetings.