Stuart Celarier is organizing an informal get-together of INETA folks and user group leaders who might be in San Francisco next week at the VSLive/WindowsAnywhere conferences. It will be fun to hook up with people we do con-calls and instant messengers with all of the time, eh? I’ll be there. Not sure who else. Contact Stuart at stuart.celarier at ineta dot org if you want to join us and he will let you know where and when (which is as of yet undetermined).
You have 2 more weeks to submit sessions for Code Camp 3, Mar 12-13 in the Microsoft Waltham Office! We would love to see more people making their debut doing presentations here! Come one come all. I only see on other woman on the list, too. And I am only ASSUMING that someone named "Hilary" is a girl. I have met men named Hilary, you know!
http://www.AcehAid.org
Werner Vogels is looking for someone who knows their stuff re Distributed Systems. Read more here.
http://www.AcehAid.org
The auction has ended. We had a lot of people bidding! The lowest winning bid was $152.50 so even if the winners only pay what eBay requires them to pay ($152.50), we have raised $4575 for Aceh Aid at IDEP. I have heard many people are planning to pay the actual maximum amount that they bid (which we can’t see) so I expect the final tally to be much higher. This was great! Thanks for everyone’s contributions – whether they were a bid, an hour, an offer for a future hour or some p.r. on their blogs.
Here is the final list. Perhaps we will translate it into real names at some point (with everyone’s permission). We will let everyone know what the final true amount is!!
EBay sorts them in the order of the highest bid yet only shows the lowest winning bid. The draft will be based on what people actually pay (per consultant). It will be in one week. Check back for more info!
http://www.AcehAid.org