SQL Saturday

[Wes Dumey]http://thedamndata.blogspot.com and krewe hosted [SQL Saturday II]http://www.sqlsaturday.com  in Tampa. Over 400 folks registered for the event.  What’s a SQLSaturday?  Think SQL Server dedicated codecamp.  Its great seeing specialty area community driven events like this starting up in Florida.  I’d like to thank Wes and Pam Shawn who were the key leaders to get SQL Saturday II off the ground. As anyone who has been involved in a codecamp or SQL Saturday will attest, getting a community driven, donation funded event off the ground is no easy effort.  Grapevine says another SQL Saturday is on the the horizon for Jacksonville on May 3^rd at the Downtown Jax Library.  [Brian Knight]http://pragmaticworks.com/community/blogs/brianknight/default.aspx and the SQL gang up in Jax have posted the announcement here http://pragmaticworks.com/community/blogs/brianknight/archive/2008/02/14/sql-saturday-jacksonville-announced.aspx . For pictures and an additional writeup on the Tampa SQL Saturday II event see this post ( http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=513 ).

VS2008 Launch Events

Visual Studio 2008 Launch Events have been scheduled for Orlando, Tampa, and Ft. Lauderdale. These events promise to be some fun filled days of about 2000 folks each. [Russ Fustino]http://www.russtoolshed.net , [Jeff Barnes] http://blogs.msdn.com/jbarnes , and [Joe Healy]http://www.devfish.net  will be doing Visual Studio 2008 sessions at each location. As is our tradition in Florida, we'll be teaming up with some local Microsoft MVPs to help us with the demos. The MVP list is still being ironed out, but I'll update this post once we've ironed the scheduling out. More info and registration details are available at http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=511 .

 

Orlando .NET CodeCamp III

Orlando .NET CodeCamp III (or Florida Codecamp #18, however you want to view it) is open for registration. Even better, the call for speakers is open. If you're looking to go from attendee to speaker to even more, the codecamps are a great first step. If you're a seasoned community speaker veteran, you know the codecamps are great fun. As usual [Shawn Weisfeld]http://www.shawnweisfeld.com is on point for the Orlando .NET CodeCamp, and will be putting together another fantastic event. See for http://www.devfish.net/fullblogitemview.aspx?blogid=512 more info.

MIX and MVP summit Role Call

Are you attending MIX or the MVP summit? I’m building a roster of Florida parties who are going to either event.  Email me at jhealy@microsoft.com with your dates you are going to be at the event, and the hotel you are staying at.  We’ll try and arrange a get together for all the Florida people.

 

WindowsMovieMaker.NET

Orlando based Microsoft Enthusiast Evangelist [Brian Johnson]http://brianjo.spaces.live.com interviewed Orlando MovieMaker MVP [Rob Morris]http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net .  If you haven’t played with [MovieMaker]http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/moviemaker.mspx yet, you’re missing out.  MovieMaker2 is easy to use, gives fantastic results, and is free with Vista or available for XP as a download (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx ). To see Brian’s interview with the King of MovieMaker, Rob Morris, go here http://brianjo.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!57C723EC58B8F3A3!2582.entry .

 

Calling all Pensacola area .NET Developers

Skipper Brown is interested in getting a .NET Developer group off the ground in Pensacola.  If you're in Gulf Shores or Pensacola and are interested in participating in a .NET group there, e-mail Skipper at databasedesigns@gmail.com.  It'll be a good excuse for the devfish to come visit McGuire's!

 

Get involved – Community Credit

Volunteering via a ton of community speaking, attending user groups or doing some .net evangelism on your own?  Wouldn't mind a toy or two?  Check out [Community Credit]http://www.community-credit.com. The Community-Credit prizes for the start of 2008 include a USB Podcast Kit, iLounge Toilet Paper Dispenser, LCD Photo Keychain, Space Invader Wall Paper, Talking Homer Cuckoo Clock, and more.  E-mail David Silverlight at liveissomuchbetterthan_g_m_a_i_l@live.com for more info.

 

Calling all Tallahassee Sharepoint Developers

Jacob Sanford is looking to startup a Tallahassee Sharepoint Developer group.  If you're interested in participating please email him at jacob@captare.com. The first meeting will probably be towards the end of February or the beginning of March. Jacob is currently writing [a book on SharePoint]http://www.amazon.com/Professional-SharePoint-Design-Jacob-Sanford/dp/047028580X/ and is looking to form a knowledge alliance around Sharepoint in the Tally area.

LOCAL EVENTS

Birmingham, AL ( http://www.bsda.info )
see website

 

Ft. Lauderdale / Miramar ( http://www.fladotnet.com )

3/11/2008 (Miramar) - Powershell 2.0 CTP Remoting Features – Max Trinidad

Ft. Walton Beach, FL ( http://www.gulfcoastdotnet.org )
see website

 

Gator .NET User Group - Gainesville, FL ( http://www.gatormug.org )
see website

 

GoldCoast User Group – Boca Raton, FL ( http://www.gcdotnet.com )
3/13/2008 – VS2008 Team System – Kim Madore and Joe Homnick

 

Huntsville Sharepoint ( http://www.mossmosis.com/huntsville/default.aspx )
see website

 

HUNTUG (All events Huntsville, AL) ( http://www.huntug.org )
3/11/2008 - MOSS 2007 SharePoint Portal Installation and Configuration - Rick Russell of Microsoft
3/17/2008 - Windows Server 2008, VS 2008 Launch Event

 

Jacksonville Architecture SIG ( http://www.jaxdug.com )
2/26/2008 – VS2008 (orcas) for Architects – Jeff Barnes of Microsoft

 

Jacksonville .NET ( http://www.jaxdug.com )
3/5/2008 – Industry Overview by TEK Systems / A Day in the Life of a Dev Shop by Wayne Sepege, Eric Brown, and Eduardo Marquez

 

Jacksonville Office Geeks ( http://www.jacksonvilleofficegeeks.org )
see website

 

Jacksonville SQL Server ( http://www.jssug.com )
5/3/2008 – SQL Saturday III

 

Lakeland .NET ( http://www.cfdotnet.org )
see website

 

Miami User Group ( http://www.miamiusersgroup.org )
3/20/2008 - Introducing New Business Intelligence Features in SQL Server 2008 - Joe Homnick

 

Mobile, AL ( http://www.loweraldotnet.org )
see website

 

Montgomery, AL .NET ( http://www.simplifi.com/madev )
see website

 

NAPLES, FL ( http://www.naplesdot.net )
see website

 

Orlando Dotnetnuuke ( http://sws.lhps.org/dnnorlando )
3/1/2008 - Custom modules - Mike Webb from DNNSpired

 

Orlando .NET User Group ( http://www.onetug.org )
3/22/2008 – Orlando .NET CodeCamp III

4/21/2008 – Ron Jacobs of Microsoft – Topic TBD

4/24/2008 – Topic TBD - Miguel Castro

 

Orlando Sharepoint Users Group ( http://www.mossmosis.com/orlando/default.aspx )
see website

 

Orlando SQL Server ( http://www.opass.org )

4/8/2008 – Visual Studio 2008 Database Tools - Jim Blizzard of Microsoft

SARASOTA IT PRO GROUP ( http://www.sarasotaitpro.org )
2/27/2008 – tbd

 

SARASOTA .NET DEVELOPER GROUP ( http://www.sarasotadev.net )
3/19/2008 - PostMIX - Silverlight v2 developer platform notes from MIX08 - Bill Reiss (MVP)
4/2008 - VS2008 Community Launch Event

5/14/2008 – Entity Framework – John Papa

 

SARASOTA SQL SERVER GROUP ( http://www.sarasotasql.net )
see website

 

Space Coast / Melbourne, FL ( http://www.scdnug.org )
3/19/2008 – March meeting – speaker and topic tbd

 

TALLAHASSEE .NET ( http://www.tlhdotnet.net )
3/6/2008 – topic tbd – Caleb Jenkins

4/3/2008 – MVC – Robert Phillips

5/1/2008 – topic tbd – Bayer White

 

Tampa Bay Architecture Special Interest Group (IASA) ( http://tampabayiasa.eventbrite.com  )( http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5630314139 )
2/28/2008 – Intro to Aspect Oriented Programming – David Hayden (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/89620056/msdnflash )

 

Tampa Bay Office Geeks Association ( http://floridaofficegeeks.org/TOGA/default.aspx )
see website

 

Tampa Bay .NET ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
see website

 

Tampa Bay Microsoft Project Association ( http://www.mympa.org/chapters/TampaBay/public.aspx )
see website

 

TAMPA BAY SQL SERVER ( http://www.tampasql.com )
see website

 

Tampa Bay SQL Server Business Intelligence ( http://tampasqlbi.sqlservercentral.com )
see website

 

West Palm Beach ( http://www.fladotnet.com )
2/26/2008 - Windows Workflow Foundation Fundamentals - Brian Noyes

 

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