Contents tagged with User Groups
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Some ideas about User Groups for 2005
I've been thinking about ways to increase the visibility of UG's in 2005 with the idea that, through increased visibility we will be able to increase membership numbers. Much of this comes from my exposure to both the Adelaide and Brisbane UG's. I thought that I'd take this opportunity to jot down some of my thoughts.
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Canberra User Group meeting tonight
On the topic of User Groups, I just noticed that my future "home" User Group are meeting tonight: http://www.cbrdev.net/Default.aspx
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Evangelism Rhythms, "know the score"
Yesterday Dave Glover - from the Microsoft Developer Platform Group - gave a special lunchtime presentation in Adelaide titled: "What is new in VS 2005 and ASP.NET". This presentation will serve as a forerunner to the Whidbey "ASCEND" day in January.
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Member boards at UserGroup meetings; photo's, stories, etc.
One of the major problems that I find at User Group meetings is that it can be difficult to meet new people. An example of this is that, prior to our last User Group meeting I had some e-mail correspondence with a fellow developer who was planning on attending; we both agreed that we should meet up at the meeting. Once you are at the meeting though, it becomes very difficult to shout-out for the person with whom you wish to meet. I noticed that sentiment is kind of echoed in this blog entry:
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Some UG questions about installing Whidbey
Because we've got our Adelaide .NET User Group (ADNUG) Whidbey Install-fest this week, I thought that I'd bookmark this list of Q&A's:
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Planning the Whidbey sessions for Adelaide User Group
Looks like everything is in readiness for our Whidbey developer sessions. During the July meeting I'll hopefully be announcing how we will be running the Whidbey sessions at the User Group.
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Adelaide .NET User Group
I've added a category to my blog where I'll be adding content regarding the Adelaide .NET User Group. The website for the user group is: http://www.adnug.com/ and we meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month.
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Helping User Group Members with Whidbey
Last night I had dinner with a couple of MS Developer evangalists and three of our local user group members. During dinner we discussed some of the possibilities for Whidbey-related group meetings and how we might ensure that we remove barriers of entry and get the maximum number of our members playing with the publicly available bits.