I've been laying low from a lot of things while working on my book this summer, but I just confirmed two INETA speaking gigs.
The first is only a few weeks away. I'll be doing a presentation on Silverlight 2.0 Annotation at the Western Mass .NET Group in Springfield, MA which should be about a 3 or 3 1/2 hour drive from home. There are three user groups that I can drive to in 3 hours. This one. Montreal and Albany. I am not a big fan of road trips, but I can endure 3 hours ;-) and I have enjoyed speaking at all of these groups.
The second is in mid-December, after I finish up all of my conference traveling. That will be at the Capital Area .NET User Group and I'll be doing an Intro to Entity Framework presentation. Outside of the Vermont.NET group, this D.C. group is the easiest user group for me to go to. I drive 1/2 hour to the airport, take a 90 minute plane ride to Dulles Airport and then the meeting is about 10 minutes from the airport. There are not many airports that I can fly to without a stop over from Burlington Airport (BTV), so this is pretty sweet.
I really do miss speaking at user groups so this will be fun! In my first year as an INETA speaker I did 16 user group presentations. I just needed to get it out of my system, I suppose. And of course, that was before I was trying to write a book. :-)
