Well, Chris is already on the boards of many non-profit organizations (including INETA lucky for us), but can you picture him in the Trump boardroom?

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That Kate Gregory is something else. It’s one thing for her to go round the world training developers, but when she gets invited to Microsoft to train the ‘softies, I’m even more impressed. Kate recently did a tour of Canada teaching about VS2005 Smart Client programming and is bringing her expertise to Redmond next week.

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Sahil Malik is in the final phases of his upcoming ADO.NET 2.0 book!!

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Atlanta’s Code Camp and the “Developer Developer Developer” event in the u.k

Here is a blog post from Plip on the u.k. event which is modeled after Code Camps.

Here is one from Atlanta Code Camp by Chris Williams.

Surely there will be more.

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I just discovered another MVP in Vermont. Anne Stanton, a CRM MVP. Anne also runs a user group, NH/VT Upper Valley IT Consultants, which seems to focus on Small Business Server. In fact, the user group is how I found her. Someone emailed me looking for an IT Pro group in Vermont and I went to Culminis and searched on Vermont.

That makes three including me, that I know of. In addition to Anne, the 3rd is Zoe Hart (Zoe rhymes with GO 🙂 ) who works at C2, a Burlington Gold Partner. Zoe is a Commerce Server MVP.

In his unit testing and code coverage talk today, John Robbins pulled up the www.CodeBetter.com website and said I wish Darrell was here just so I can ask him to take a bow. He had such great stuff to say about the work that Darrell, Grant, Sahil and others are doing on that blog site.

Code Camp in D.C. was a blast. Though there were a lot of people helping to make it happen, Andrew Duthie went above and beyond. I know how hard he was working as I stayed at his house on Thursday and Friday night. There is lots to talk about and I can’t get it all in at once. I met *so* many people that I have never met in person before and I met a lot of new folks. Andrew pulled together a user group leader meeting on Friday night so I got to meet 12 u.g. leaders from all over Virginia and Maryland. Many I had been acquanted with from some type of communication with INETA over the past three years. I also had a great time talking at dinner with Anil John, who I hadn’t seen in over 2 years and Wally McClure.

The highlight however was the new love of my life, Andrew and Jennifer’s two year old son, Joseph. 🙂 

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I have been at Devscovery for two days now and am learning so much. I am jumping around into different tracks and getting a fantastic smorgasbord of information. It would be nice to just have every session lined end to end and attend them all. Or just have them zap it all into our brains. Like any conference, picking and choosing is always hard. But having to constantly choose between deep internals with Richter, serious asp.net with Jeff Prosise, hard core debugging with John Robbins and the many other great topics and Wintellect presenters is really just a big pain in the butt.

Sara Faatz has done an amazing job of putting together a top-notch and intimate conference. Sara is also our marketing guru for INETA and her contributions there are beyond amazing.

I have already posted this in the comments to Robert Scoble’s blog about restarting Team99, but I highly recommend Amanda Murphy. (I hope she doesn’t kill me 🙂 )

Amanda is a blogger, a .NET User group leader, a sharepoint geek, an XBox fanatic and a tablet pc enthusiast. This is definitely one person who is very excited about technology, knowledgable, smart and loves to talk about it all!

I am really excited that Amanda is coming to the INETA NORAM User Group Leaders Summit at TechEd. She was one of the scholarship winners.

Well, a cover at least. HEck, it’s like hanging out at the MVP summit. I know all those guys! <G>

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