Gang announcements May 2010

Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group
May 19, 2010

2010 Executive Officers
President – David Giard
Vice-President – John Hopkins
Treasurer – Kent Fehribach
Secretary – Gerhard Weiss

Webmaster – Chris Roland
Day of .Net
Shelly Noll,
Richard Irwin
2010 Volunteers

How to contact us
www.migang.org
Board email
president@migang.org
vp@migang.org
secretary@migang.org
treasurer@migang.org
webmaster@migang.org
pr@migang.org

Gold Sponsor
Cash support for GANG
Monthly drawing for Telerik Premium Collection for .NET
RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX
RadControls for WinForms
RadControls for WPF
RadControls for Silverlight
Telerik Reporting
TelerikOpenAccess ORM
$1299 Value!

Annual Sponsor

Sponsors

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

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
45% off ebook purchases from O’Reilly for a limited time
35% off print book purchases for user group members
Use discount code DSUG when ordering online
oreilly.com/store

Supporting Members

2010 GANG Goals
Get members more engaged and involved
Increase meeting attendance by 50%
Increase supporting membership by 30%
Continue to attract high-quality speakers
Increase sponsorship by 100%
Finish year in the black financially

Any First-Time Attendees?

Membership Drive
January – June 2010
1 Entry for each meeting attended
1 Entry for each new guest you bring*
Grand prize drawing at June meeting
Grand Prize: Zune HD
* A new guest is someone who has not attended a GANG meeting in the previous 12 months

Membership Drive
Fine Print
At each meeting, be sure the GANG Secretary has recorded your attendance, your e-mail address and the names and e-mail addresses of any new guests you bring.
For each meeting you attend (January-June 2010) you will receive an entry into a drawing.
For each new guest you bring to a meeting, you will receive an additional entry.
A new guest is one who has not attended a meeting in at least 12 months.
A new guest may be considered a guest of at most one member.
Once a guest has attended a meeting they are no longer considered new; However, they may increase their own odds of winning by attending more meetings and bringing new guests of their own.
No circular references allowed (aka, two new people can’t show up together and put that they were each referred by the other).
A drawing will be held at the June meeting.
The winner will receive a Zune HD, courtesy of Microsoft.
You must be present at the June meeting in order to win.

June Extravaganza
Bill Wagner presents “Real World C# 4.0”
Sponsored by New World Systems
QdobaBurrito Bar
Zune HD giveaway

Upcoming GANG Meetings

Other User Groups

Upcoming Events

Motor City Codeslingers
Pair Coding;Idea Exchange
Wed May 266-9PM
Biggby Coffee, 26185 Evergreen Rd.
This is an informal meetup of people interested in learning from one another. Bring your laptop and pair up with someone to work on an open source project, learn a new technique, or even dabble in a new language. There is no agenda or specific topic, just a time set aside for people to pair.”
Source: http://mvwood.com/blog/bitslingers-4-6-2009/
TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers

CafePress.com/MiGang

Job Announcements
Local Job Openings
Developers Looking for Work

Keeping in Touch
www.migang.org
www.migang.org/news.rss
twitter.com/gangannounce
bit.ly/GANG_LinkedIn_Group
bit.ly/GANG_Upcoming_Meetings
bit.ly/GANG_Google_Calendar_html

Some Good Programs
BizSpark and WebSiteSpark
Low-cost Microsoft software for small businesses
Microsoft.com/BizSpark
Microsoft.com/WebSiteSpark
OakGovChallenge
Web and Mobile Dev contest for Oakland County
$10,000 in prizes
OakGovChallenge.com
Contest closes June 11

Social Hour
Immediately following this meeting
Not a sponsored event!
Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant
27522 Northwestern Hwy

Fabulous Prizes!
“Few things in life are more enjoyable
than giving away stuff
that somebody else paid for.”
-David Giard
GANG President

Fabulous Prizes!

Gang announcements May 2010

by David Giard on May 19, 2010

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