Gang announcements 2011 11

Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group November 16, 2011

2011 Executive Officers  President – David Giard  Vice-President – Kent Fehribach  Treasurer – Shelly Noll  Secretary – Gerhard Weiss

Volunteers  Brian Korzynski  Matt Ruma  Onorio Catenacci  Dave Kroondyk  Jamie Altizer  Sukhdev S Tur  Hilary Weaver  Randy Pagels, Microsoft guy  Jim Priore, Cinematographer

 E-mailContact us  president@migang.org  vp@migang.orgwww.migang.org  secretary@migang.org  treasurer@migang.orgwww.migang.org/news.rss  webmaster@migang.org  pr@migang.orgtwitter.com/gangannouncetinyurl.com/GangLinkedIntinyurl.com/GangFacebooktinyurl.com/GangCalendargroups.google.com/group/migang

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Discounts for our members Manning  www.Manning.com  36% off  Enter discount code “UG367” MSDN Magazine  20% off subscription  1 Year (12 issues) $35.00 $28.00  2 year (24 issues) $60.00 $48.00  (866)‐293‐3194  Promo code: A0EUG1 CODE Magazine  33% off subscription  1 Year (6 issues) $29.99 $19.99  www.codemag.com/subscribe/migang

INETA Offers Pluralsight  Free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! Library  tinyurl.com/PSGuestPass Wrox/Wiley  40% off select Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0 books to user group members through 6/30.  See the list at ineta.org/offers U  Use promo code WVS10 O’Reilly  50% off ebook purchases from O’Reilly for a limited time  40% off print book purchases for user group members  Use discount code DSUG when ordering online  oreilly.com/store Windows Azure  Free One-Month Pass  azurepassusa.cloudapp.net

Supporting Members Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since Jamie Altizer 2/8/2011 2/8/2011 Ondrej Balas 6/15/2011 6/15/2011 Mark Barkey 3/16/2011 9/15/2004 Stanislav Bashtavenko 2/16/2011 2/16/2011 Brittan Benedetto 6/18/2011 6/18/2011 DJ Bodnar 4/20/2011 4/20/2011 Kelly Brownsberger 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Onorio Catenacci 9/21/2011 11/18/2009 Jim Donahue 7/11/2011 12/16/2008 Russel Drown 9/13/2011 4/21/2010 Kent Fehribach 1/1/2011 11/19/2008 Cyndi Flaugher 2/14/2011 2/14/2011 David Giard 11/17/2010 11/19/2008 Rob Gibbens 8/17/2011 8/17/2011 Robert Griffiths 6/22/2011 6/22/2011 Edward Hanlon 6/15/2011 6/15/2011 Doug Hawes 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Jim Heruben 9/21/2011 8/20/2003

Supporting Members Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since Richard Irwin 1/17/2011 5/21/2003 Chet Kloss 06/15/2011 06/15/2011 Bruce Kohler 9/21/2011 9/21/2011 Brian Korzynski 10/20/2010 10/20/2010 Jelard Macalino 8/15/2011 8/15/2011 Bhupinder Mavi 10/1/2011 10/1/2011 Marc McVey 9/21/2011 6/17/2009 Don Miller 8/17/2011 8/17/2011 Paul Mrozowski 8/25/2011 11/18/2009 Lena Nilsson 7/20/2011 7/20/2011 Chris Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Godfrey Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Shelly Noll 1/19/2011 4/21/2010 Tim OConnell 4/17/2011 5/16/2007 Ephraim Okoye 4/20/2011 11/16/2005 David Parshan 3/16/2011 3/16/2011 Jeff Povlov 1/19/2011 1/19/2011 Robert Powers 8/17/2011 1/20/2009 John Ptasznik 8/17/2011 8/17/2011

Supporting Members Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since Mandar Purekar 3/16/2011 3/16/2011 Matt Ruma 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Harminder Sandhu 9/21/2011 9/21/2011 Rick Schummer 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Patrick Steele 11/17/2010 11/17/2004 Lindell Stephens 7/20/2011 11/18/2009 Wasay Syed 7/20/2011 7/20/2011 Jeff Thompson 10/1/2011 10/20/2010 Sukhdev Tur 11/5/2011 11/5/2011 R.T. Vega 4/21/2011 1/18/2006 Hilary Weaver 3/16/2011 3/16/2011 Gerhard Weiss 8/17/2011 3/19/2008 Y. K. Yeung 7/20/2011 6/17/2009 Susan Yount 2/16/2011 2/16/2011

2011 GANG Goals Cultivate Ownership In Group Continue to Attract High-Quality Speakers Support and Connect with other Area User Groups Average 60 attendees per meeting Increase supporting membership by 15% Increase Monetary Sponsorship by 10% Make it an event

2011 GANG GoalsCultivate Ownership In Group More volunteers than ever New officer candidates Codeslingers moved to Epitec DevLunch Social hour More Lightning Talks 625 on Mailing List 244 Twitter followers (+84%) 276 LinkedIn Members (+71%)

2011 GANG GoalsContinue to Attract High-Quality Speakers Gary Short Michael Eaton Mike Amundsen Charles Stacy Harris Gus Issa Jennifer Marsman Brian Prince Steve Bohlen K Scott Allen Richard Campbell Leon Gersing Josh Holmes, Darrell Hawley Bill Wagner Richard Hale Shaw Godfrey Nolan Glenn Block

2011 GANG GoalsSupport and Connect with other Area User Groups Incubator for Special Interest Groups Joint meeting with Detroit Cloud Computing Group (3/2011) Joint meeting with AADND (1/2012) Officers attended ~50 user group meetings Speaker tours (G Short, M Amundsen, S Bohlen, R Campbell)

2011 GANG GoalsAverage 60 attendees per meeting Average attendance = 81 120 100 80 60 40 20 0

2011 GANG GoalsIncrease supporting membership by 15% November 2010: 23 supporting members November 2011: 53 supporting members 130% increase!

2011 GANG GoalsIncrease Monetary Sponsorship by 10% Received $10,000 cash from sponsors! No pizza in 2011! Mega-SWAG End-of-year Cash Reserve up 100% Speaker sponsorships by JetBrains, ComponentOne, DevExpress, & Telerik

2011 GANG GoalsMake it an event Big-name speakers GANG10 Videos Trivia Food Drive Membership Drive: XBox 360 giveaway Video recordings Greeters

Any First-Time Attendees?

Upcoming GANG MeetingsDate Speaker TopicDec No December meetingJan 18 TBDFeb 15 Sarah Dutkiewicz Intro to PowerShell/Extending PowerShellMar 21 TBDApr 18 Mike Wood AzureMay 16 Steve Smith Common Design Patterns

Holiday Party Copper Canyon Brewery Thursday December 8 at 7PM Free Appetizers Door Prizes Register at http://gangholiday.eventbrite.com

Other User GroupsGroup Date LinkGreater Lansing .Net UG 3rd Thu glugnet.orgSilverlight UG 3rd Thu tinyurl.com/MiSilverlightGreater Detroit Cloud Computing UG 2nd Mon tinyurl.com/DetroitCloudSharePoint User Group 2nd Tue tinyurl.com/SeMiSpAnn Arbor .Net Developers 2nd Wed aadnd.orgFlint .Net UG 2nd Thu glugnet.orgSE Michigan SQL Server UG 2nd Thu semssug.sqlpass.orgSE Michigan Powershell Club 3rd Tue MichiganPowershell.comNW Ohio .Net UG 3rd Tue NwNug.comWest Michigan .Net UG 4th Wed WmDotNet.org

Upcoming EventsWhat Where When LinkLivonia Nerd Lunch Aubree’s Pizzeria Nov 17 tinyurl.com/LivoniaNerds Livonia, MICentral Ohio DODN Columbus, OH Dec 10 cododn.wordpress.com/CodeMash Sandusky, OH Jan 11-13 codemash.org

Special Interest Groups (SIG) Functional Programming (2nd Tuesday at Epitec) .NET Micro Framework Next Year

Motor City Codeslingers• Pair Coding, Idea Exchange, Tech Book Exchange• Wed Dec 7 6:00-9PM• Epitec Offices, 24800 Denso Dr. Suite 150 Southfield, MI 48033 TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers Codeslingers@migang.org

DevLunch• Come meet up with other Developers in the area to socialize and network over lunch. There will also be a raffle which normally involves Gift Cards (to help the winner pay for their meal), Software and Shirts.• Wed Dec 14, 12-1PM (2nd Wed of each month)• TGI Fridays 591 W Big Beaver Rd Troy MI 48084 www.migang.org secretary@migang.org

CafePress.com/MiGang

Job Announcements • Developers Looking for Work • Local Job Openings

Next Month TBD January 18, 2011

Social Hour • Immediately following this meeting • Not a sponsored event! • Maps are located on the counter in back of the room.Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant 27522 Northwestern Hwy

Fabulous Prizes!“Few things in life are more enjoyablethan giving away stuff that someone elsepaid for” -David Giard, GANG President

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