Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:05 PM
I'm really looking forward to heading to Regina (March 18) and Saskatoon (March 19) next week to participate in their community connection events, hosted in support of the VS.NET 2008 launch events by Microsoft.
The format of the event is very kewl as well. We'll have a bit of an intro from the CIPS people, then see some technology demonstrations...but then the *real* benefit of these session occurs:
We get an overview of the community story...why its important to nurture and get involved with your local developer community. Then, we do a bit of agile-topic selection (read: we put a bunch of topics up on the board and as a group vote on which ones to discuss), and then break off into small groups for discussion. My role in attending will be to host one of these groups, and I know from past exercises like this you can get a lot of great discussion...plus it really introduces you to some new faces in your local IT world.
So if you're in the Regina or Saskatoon area, I encourage you to make the trek out next week and come talk to myself, your user group community leaders, and your fellow developers!
You can register for the Regina event here.
You can register for the Saskatoon event here.
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