The opening/closing slide deck from the first Boston Area SharePoint Users Group

1. http://www.bostonsharepointug.org Twitter: @BASPUG / #BASPUG info@bostonsharepointug.org

2. THIS IS BEING RECORDED! We are recording and streaming today’s meeting via uStream http://bit.ly/BASPUGstream

3. About the BASPUG The Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (BASPUG) was founded to bring together like minds to network and share their experiences, triumphs, and tribulations around Microsoft SharePoint, to provide a community platform for Boston area SharePoint users, administrators, developers, architects, of all experience levels, even brand new to SharePoint, to share their knowledge with the community.

4. About the BASPUG Occurring every 2nd Wednesday/month 6PM – 8PM Here @ the N.E.R.D. http://www.bostonsharepointug.org Interested in speaking? Hearing about specific topics? Have problems? Contact us at info@bostonsharepointug.org

5. Agenda 6:00p – 6:15p Sign-in, networking, food sponsored by AvePoint 6:15 – 6:25pm Meeting summary, next meeting info, events, raffle tickets, sponsors, member announcements 6:25p – 6:30p Introduction to meeting topic and speaker

6. Agenda 6:30p – 7:30p Presentation – Chris Bortlik “Introducing SharePoint 2010” 7:30p – 8:00p Round-table discussion / Networking Group questions, challenges, member announcements, news, events, jobs Raffle SharePoint Zip License by BlackBlade Books from O’Reilly, Wrox

7. Agenda 8p - ? SharePint @ The Miracle of Science http://www.miracleofscience.us/ 321 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge Phone : 617-868-ATOM

8. Sponsors We wish to thank our sponsors for the food, venue, raffles, site hosting, and organization of the BASPUG.

9. Sponsors

10. Today’s Meeting Presenter: Chris Bortlik Microsoft SharePoint Technology Specialist Blog: http://blogs.technet.com/cbortlik/ Topic “Introducing SharePoint 2010”

11. Next Meeting When: June 9th, 2010 Where: Here! Time?: 6p – 8p Speaker: Craig Pilkenton Presentation: YOU DECIDE! SPD 2010 or SP 2010 Administration with PowerShell? Food Sponsor: AvePoint Raffle Sponors: Black Blade, O’Reilly Watch Twitter, Blog, and Mailing for Updates!

12. Other Events… SharePoint Saturday DC Free SharePoint Event! 1300+ Attendees 30+ Sponsors 100+ Sessions Saturday, May 15th Annandale, VA http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/dc Largest SharePoint Event since SPC09

13. Other Events… New Hampshire Code Camp Free Event for Developers, by Developers Saturday, June 5th Concord, NH http://www.thedevcommunity.org/

14. Other Events… New England Give Camp 2010 Coding for Charity June 11th – 13th Here @ N.E.R.D. Contact: negc2010@hotmail.com Twitter: @NEGiveCamp http://www.newenglandgivecamp.org

15. Other Events… 3rd Hartford Code Camp Free Event for Developers, by Developers Saturday, June 19th Bloomfield, CT http://ctdotnet.org/CodeCamp3.aspx

16. Other Events… SharePoint Saturday NYC Free SharePoint Event! July 31st New York City http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/ny

17. Other Events… Best Practices Conference 2010 August 24th-27th Washington, DC http://www.bestpracticesconference.com

18. Other Events… SharePoint Technology Conference October 20th-22nd Boston MA http://www.sptechcon.com

19. Other Events… Global SharePoint Users Group Held Online Monthly 7PM EST via Live Meeting Next Meeting TBD http://www.gspug.org

20. Other Events… SharePoint Saturday Boston Coming this Fall… Date TBD Twitter: @SPSBoston Twitter Hashtag: #SPSBos SPSBoston@live.com http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston

21. Other Events… Boston User Groups http://www.bostonusergroups.org/

22. News SharePoint and Office 2010 Launched! SharePoint Server 2010 SharePoint Foundation 2010 SharePoint Designer 2010 Office 2010 Project 2010 Visio 2010

23. BASPUG Want to Speak or Sponsor? Contact us at info@bostonsharepointug.org Or, just corner one of these folks when you see them… Contrary to popular belief, Talbott does NOT have a blue gradient background behind him all of the time… so he may be hard to find :)