Lots of stuff going on in the next few weeks here the Omaha area:

• The Greater Omaha SQL Server User Group will be meeting this Thursday night. Our speaker will be Don Bryner, Principal Technology Specialist from Microsoft Corporation who will be introducting us to SQL Server 2005. Meeting starts at 6:30 PM on the 13th. We're meeting at:1Staff Training and Development, 10845 Emmet Street, Omaha, NE 68164. I'm really pleased to announce we've got a great big door prize: one full suite of Visual Studio Virtual Developer (that's right, full license production versions of SQL Server 2000, Visual Studio.NET 2002, Windows Server 2003 and Virtual PC 2004)! We also have a number of books and goodies to dole out, all complements of Microsoft.
• FunWith.NET has one our favorite INETA speakers -- Ken Getz -- rolling into for our meeting on the 20th. More details at http://www.funwith.net/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=24.
• The next "big day" for Omaha has been announced for February 24. The MSDN folks will be presenting on WinForms, debugging ASP.NET and Visual Studio Team System. We'll be back at the AMC 24. You can register for that event here. Got to believe that Mike Benkovich will be giving us yet another afternoon filled with .NET knowledge.

Hope to see you there!