I am presenting at The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) Summer Institute at Trinity College (Hartford CT) on July 2nd. The H-FOSS Project is primarily for undergraduate computing students who want to get involved in building free and open source software for use by humanitarian organizations. Details below:
Presentation Title: Lessons learned and best practices in Humanitarian & Emergency Systems.
In recent years, two emergency events - South Asia Tsunami and Hurricane Katrina saw the deployment of Humanitarian systems to aid in the relief efforts. This presentation will give an overview of the event scenarios, lessons learned and best practices in developing and deploying such systems. In addition, the presentation will describe a system currently being developed by InSTEDD for deployment at the UNICEF's Operation Centre (OPSCEN) for Emergency management. Please note that this presentation shows how any system platform can be used during emergencies & humanitarian events.
Presenter Bio: Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is an Architect/Tech-Lead based in Hartford CT. He has over 20 years experience in Information Technologies and has worked at various companies like Aetna, IBM, Microsoft, NASA, UNICEF and State of Connecticut. He holds graduate degrees in Computer Science, Business Administration and Economics. He is the former President of the Trinity Club of Hartford (alumni chapter).
Groove is getting a new name - SharePoint Workspace 2010. More info at the MSDN Groove Development blog post here…
This is a major shift for Office Groove – having worked with it for a long time (MVP Award and MSDN Developer Network postings), this is certainly good for business!
I had worked on a few development projects at Microsoft recently. Two projects are now published at the Microsoft Developer Network website -
Coding Groove Web Services Applications with the Groove 2007 SDK (Part 1 of 2)
Coding Groove Web Services Applications with CodePlex GWS Helpers (Part 2 of 2)
My thanks to Molly Yen at Microsoft (Beverly MA) for working with me in the above projects.
Ashok Hingorani (Microsoft MVP for Groove) has an interesting blog post about Microsoft Groove. Groove should not be a mystery any more.
On March 14th, I presented at the SharePoint Saturday Boston (@ Waltham MA). The presentation topic was ‘Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint – An Extended Collaboration Architecture’.
The presentation slide deck is posted at the SP Saturday Boston site here..
In addition, I had mentioned during my presentation, the critical importance of security within Groove - which is also the major selling point of Groove itself. More information on Groove Security is here in this blog posting..
Facebook announces new API for Status, Notes, Links & Videos on the FB Platform..
AllFacebook reports that ‘Microsoft strengthens relationship with Facebook’. This looks very promising.
Lately, I have been working quite a bit on Facebook, primarily R & D for a prospective client project (in Marketing Research). Perusing through Facebook-related blogs, one posting stands out – ‘How Facebook Could Kill Twitter Overnight’. The premise is - if the Facebook API call ‘Users.getInfo’ includes the user’s status update – it would mean the demise of Twitter overnight! Sounds very interesting indeed – developers will be thankful and Facebook would save $500m (part of which would belong to Microsoft). Unfortunately, the blog post claims that Facebook does not have the developer resources available to build the status updates internally – this is a weak argument.
Good post and some very good responses (comments) to the post. I am of the opinion - why not do it? it appears that Facebook would have more to gain (broader demographics) and the market would sort out ‘the division of the spoils’.
My thanks to Microsoft for the Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for 2009 - this is 2nd time in a row! I have been very active with the Groove and the CTDOTNET community for the past several years and it is always a pleasure to be helpful and work with other developers.
Groove has evolved considerably over the years (since '01) and works well with other collaborative platforms, especially SharePoint. Check Groove 2007 out - download a free trial and dive into the Groove 2007 Developer workspaces from CTDOTNET Connecticut .NET Developers Group web-site.
The Connecticut .NET Developers Group gets a new logo on their website and FaceBook group.
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