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New INETA NORAM Board Members

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From the INETA website

INETA Announces New Board Members, Sheri Nawrocki, Matt Ranlett & Brendon Schwarz.

INETA ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF SHERI NAWROCKI AS VICE PRESIDENT OF MARKETING

Redmond, WA – October 4, 2005 – The International .NET Association (INETA), an organization that provides resources, services, and support for .NET user groups around the globe, today announced the appointment of Sheri Nawrocki as Vice President of Marketing for INETA North America.

“Sheri has been a valuable member of our team over the past few years and will do an excellent job leading our marketing efforts.” says Chris Pels, President of the North American Board of Directors. “Sheri brings a unique perspective to our team with her background in software development, marketing, and graphic design that will be invaluable.”

“INETA has done a great job strengthening the .NET development community with its efforts over the past several years and I am excited to have the opportunity to help the organization.” says Nawrocki. “This is a great group of volunteers and I look forward to working with them.”

INETA ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF MATT RANLETT AND BRENDON SCHWARTZ TO INETA BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Redmond, WA – October 6, 2005 – The International .NET Association (INETA), an organization that provides resources, services, and support for .NET user groups around the globe, today announced the appointment of Matt Ranlett and Brendon Schwartz as Co-Vice Presidents of Technology for INETA North America.

“Matt and Brendon, or The Atlanta Regular Guys as many know them, have done exciting work in the Atlanta area with local INETA User Groups and have contributed to the success of the Community Activities Division of INETA” says Chris Pels, President of the North American Board of Directors. “We are excited about the energy and ideas the guys will bring to the Technology Division.”

“Matt and I are very excited about our new positions on the Board.” says Schwartz. “We are really looking forward to having a big impact on how INETA works with technology now and in the future” added Ranlett.

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My first INETA gigs are lining up

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I’m so happy to already have two INETA gigs lined up.

I’ll be speaking at WeProgram.net in Virginia Beach on December 6th.

Next will be Tech Valley.NET, in Albany NY on January 25th. I’ll hope for now blizzards!

In addition to that, I will be speaking next month at the new group in Syracuse, NY  – CNY .NET Developer Group. Although they are now an INETA group, I am going there on my own because I grew up in the area and my parents still live about an hour away. I was really exicted when I heard that Andy was starting up this group so am very happy to be going there. So are my parents since I’ll get to go see them, too!

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Bill Zack – INETA Membership Manager for Northeast

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I know – it sounds awfully formal, but INETA is getting all organized and grown up.

When I began as a volunteer in the User Group Management committee almost 3 1/2 years ago, I was the liaison for all of Canada and all of the northeast and a handful of other states as well. Slowly that has shrunk. Bill Zack came on board and I gave him NY and CT. Chris Pels came on board and I gave up RI and MA. Ohio and Pennsylvania eventually found more local liaisons and now there are 5 liaisons covering Canada. For the past year or two I had responsibility for communicating with the 5 groups (including my own) in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire.  Now with INETA’s overhaul including a major restructuring that board member, Chris Wallace, has orchestrated in the Membership Division, I was happy to pass on these groups, and my buddies Pat Tormey, Joe Sarna, Tim Durgan and Phil Denencourt, to such good hands.

But those NH and Maine groups aren’t rid of me yet. Now I get to go visit them as an INETA speaker. That will be great fun and I look forward to it.

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What time are the PDC BOFs at?

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Here are the timeslots allocated by the PDC organizers for the BOFs.

Monday (pre-con day)
7:00, 8:15, 9:30

Tuesday
9:00pm
10:15 pm  (Tablet PC Developer BOF is here)

Thursday
9:00pm  (Going Solo BOF is here)
10:15pm

Stuart Celarier, who is leading up the INETA charge to coordinate all of the BOFs reports that there are 7 rooms during each session and the BOFs really filled up!



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Additions to INETA Speaker Bureau

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INETA has added 9 new members to the speaker bureau. Although it’s “official”, it is not yet posted anywhere so I thought I would. Unfortunately, their budget limited the number of new people that they could bring on board. I know that they had a lot of wonderful people to choose from and had a difficult task. Hopefully, there will be more opportunities at some point to bring some of these people on as well and share them with user groups around North America.



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42 potential BOF slots at PDC

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The BOF sessions that are being organized by INETA at PDC will be set up like this:

In total, there will be 7 time slots spread out over a few nights for sessions. My guess is maybe 3 on one night and 4 on another, but I truly have no idea.

During each time slot there will be 6 rooms available.

Therefore, there will be a potential of 42 BOF sessions at PDC.

Right now I see 30 sessions on the PDC BOF site for voting. I know that there are at least two more that I just submitted, so there may be more submissions waiting in the wings for the BOF committee to deal with. But surely, there will be room for more.

Remember when coming up with a BOF idea that the purpose of a BOF is to be a discussion among all of the BOF attendees with one or a few people leading the discussion. It is not a presentation and there is no presentation equipment available (eg projector).

So go submit a proposal or vote. You can vote for up to 7 sessions, so if you want to vote for my Tablet PC or Going Solo sessions, you’ll have to wait until they are on the list.

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INETA LATAM Never ceases to amaze me

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The developer community in Latin America is astounding and much larger than most people outside of LATAM might imagine. INETA LATAM makes up over 25% of all of the INETA member groups worldwide. Their latest newsletter is out and is full of so much information about events, their speaker bureau, new MVPs in Latin America and so much that is going on ni the community. INETA NORAM has been looking to LATAM for a long time for their incredible formula for building this community. Here is a link to the newsletter in English and in Spanish.



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Damir Tomicic now heading up INETA Europe

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When INETA began, Christian Nagel was our man in Europe. When INETA was divided up into the five regions (North America, Latin America, Asia Pacific, Middle East Africa and Europe) he took the lead of Europe. Now that region is very organized. Christian did a fantastic job and also brought a lot of great people on board to help him out all across Europe. As with the recent evolution with INETA NORAM, Christian decided it was time to let someone else step up to the plate and the obvious choice was Damir Tomicic who was already on the INETA Europe board. Damir lives in Bavaria where he runs a .net user group and is an MSDN Regional Director. He blogs at www.tomicic.de and you can read his bio here.

I know he’s already doing a great job!

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In the trenches thoughts and tips on starting a user group

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Jim Holmes is in the process of starting a .net group in Dayton, Ohio (Dayton .NET Developers Group). He has written down a list of things he is doing as tips for others starting user groups. The tips are great. It is important to remember that every group is different and everyone’s approach is different, but there are definitely a lot of things that many groups can share with each other. As Jim points out, it’s a lot of work and you better know what you are committing yourself to! I know that when I started VTdotNET, I wasn’t nearly as organized as Jim is in starting up this group in Dayton. Somehow I’ve made it work, but I do believe that (outside of the phone call thing – just not for me, but may work for others) it is all great. One of the great resources Jim has in his area is Drew Robbins who went from User Group Leader to Regional Director to MSDN Developer Evangelist! And it was through Drew that I found his post.

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