|
| 
|
| | In This Issue | |
|  5th Anniversary INETA
| | People behind INETA Europe
| | Success Story
| | News from the Speakers Bureau
| | We need volunteers!
| | INETA Speaking Engagements
| | Windows Vista and Office 2007 CLT | | | | | |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
February 2007 marks the 5th anniversary of INETA which has grown to more than 800 user groups representing more than 850.000 members worldwide. In Europe we count currently 254 user groups representing 66518 members. Since our founding INETA has focused on fostering the local developer community through various programs and services for user groups with the help of INETA volunteers.
Since last fall user groups around the world are participating in the INETA Community Launch Event program coordinated by our Community Activities Division. It's great for user group members to learn from their peers which have been a core component of user groups for many years. I encourage user groups to get members involved in sharing their knowledge and work. Big thanks to our Community Activities team volunteers who put in hundreds of hours on this project. In this edition of our newsletter we would like to introduce you Tomislav Bronzin, Vice President Community Activities.
Over the past year our efforts to increase interest in the INETA Speakers Bureau have gone very well and bookings are at an all time high. André Obelink, Vice President Speakers Bureau and his team work hard to provide an equitable distribution of speakers across the country to our 254 user groups. I encourage all user group leaders to work together to host a speaker at a multi-user group event to maximize our speaker resources and strengthen your local community by working together with fellow user group leaders.
As you know INETA Europe is a volunteer run organization and we currently have several divisions (Marketing, Sponsorship, etc.) that are in need of volunteers. If you would like to help INETA Europe and your fellow user group leaders and members for one project or on a regular basis please contact Andrej Radinger, Vice President Membership, at [email protected].
As always please let me know if your have any ideas or feedback that we can use help the user group community.
Damir Tomicic
President, INETA Europe
[email protected]
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| | The people behind INETA Europe | |
| |  In every newsletter we introduce one of our boardmembers. This month we like to introduce Tomislav Bronzin, Vice President for Community Activities.
“The man behind Windows Vista/Office 2007 CLT e-mails” Tomislav Bronzin is "with communities" more than 10 years, starting as a student when he was one of the co-founders of Microsoft Community in his homeland Croatia, and then "climbing" level by level in INETA Europe from Country Leader, Liaison for South East Europe to become INETA Vice President for Community Activities.
Tomislav primary job is to help and coordinate organization of large events like the one he helped organized with Microsoft:Community Launch Team for Windows Vista and Office 2007. Also, part of his job (with other Board Members) is to provide you Country Leaders with: 1. Info about discounts for user groups; 2. Speaker’s opportunity – especially organizing Country Speakers Bureau; 3. Survey about activities of User Group – so you can motivate them to fill in data into survey system so we can monitor performance (number of members, user group meetings, topics etc); 4. Community Quarterly Kit – opportunity for User Group Leaders to "order" Books, software licenses and gadgets for certain amount free of charge; 5. Bi-monthly Newsletter – opportunity for every INETA Europe User Group to publish interesting info. | | |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| | INETA Europe Success Story - Jackie Goldstein speaks on a VBevent | | |
INETA speaker Jackie Goldstein did two sessions on the last VBevent. A VBevent is the quarterly meeting of the Dutch Visual Basic community VBcentral. And we can tell you: it was a great success! Jackie started with a session about SQL Server Compact Edition and after the break he managed a quiz: Visual Basic Worst Practices... ;-) Beside the fact that is was very funny, the attendees were surprised by some of the examples Jackie gave. At the end all the attendees were very happy with this great evening. We quote some visitors: "Very good speaker with an excellent audience interaction..."
"The presentation of Mr. Goldstein made me forget the parking problem very fast. Good Show! Loved it!"
"This VBCentral initiative to invite a INETA sponsored guru gives the user group a significant quality-push and brings it to a higher level of professionalism. To be continued I may hope!" The attendance of Jackie gave the VBevent and also VBcentral itself an enormous booth.. the number of attendees were doubled in comparison to a normal VBevent. That's real community building! | |
|
|
| 
| | 
| |
|
| | A word from our sponsor | |
| |  The Sybase Developers Network (SDN) provides a variety of Web-based resources for developers who are interested in or already working with Sybase products. It also gives developers access to a community of peers who can provide assistance and advice on projects. SDN resources include:
-
Software and code sample downloads -
CodeXchange (a tool that allows developer to freely exchange code samples, utilities, scripts and more) -
Newsgroups and blogs -
Product documentation -
Support options and resources -
Training and educational opportunities Take advantage of this hige knowledge base of Sybase technical information and join the SDN today (Register for free ! ) and get a SDN tshirt for free !
The first 500 new registered members will get a SDN tshirt for free. | | |
|
| |
|
|
| | News from the INETA Europe Speakers Bureau | |
| | Last couple of months INETA Europe welcomed two new INETA speakers! Last added are Chad Hower aka Kudzu and Bart de Smet. We are more then happy to provide them, or one of our other great speakers, to your local event. Chad Z. Hower aka Kudzu
 Formerly the Regional Developer Adviser (DPE) for Microsoft MEA (Middle East and Africa), he was responsible for 85 countries spanning 4 continents and crossing 10 time zones. Now Chad is a professional speaker at popular developer conferences worldwide and was once introduced as having "mastered more languages than a United Nations translator." Chad is the author of the book Indy in Depth and has contributed to several other books on network communications and general programming. Chad writes regularly for the Software Developer Network Magazine (Dutch), and occasionally for other magazines. Chad is an expatriate who travels extensively year round. Chad currently lives in Limassol Cyprus but has also lived in St Petersburg Russia, Canada, Turkey, Jordan, and the United States. In total Chad has visited more than nearly 50 countries, visiting most of them many times. Bart de Smet
 Bart De Smet is Microsoft MVP for Visual C# and focuses on .NET Framework development, CLR internals, language innovation with C# 3.0 and LINQ, SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server System. Since the year 2000, Bart evangelizes Microsoft technologies and delivers presentations on several technology events. Beside his evangelism efforts, he's busy maintaining his blog writing articles and doing consultancy for various development projects, spending long and lonely nights with his computer. In 2005, Bart graduated as a Master Informatics from the University of Ghent, Belgium with a summa *** laude degree. For the spare free time that remains, he loves to read technical and scientific books, browse the internet for interesting articles and blog posts, and messing around with betas and SDKs. Hiking trips, jogging and watching snooker are the keywords of Bart's limited sports activities. If you are interested in inviting one of our speakers to your user group event, please feel free to contact me. André Obelink,
Vice President Speakers Bureau INETA Europe | | |
|
|
|
|
|
| | Volunteers needed | |
| | INETA Europe Volunteers Needed: We are looking for several volunteers to assist in the Marketing, Sponsorship, and Technology/Web Site areas. If you have time and are interested please contact Tomislav Bronzin at [email protected]. | | |
|
|
|
|
|
| | Featured INETA Speaking Engagements | |
| | Speaker | Group | Date | | Christian Weyer | NNUG Kristiansand | 05/29/2007 | | Christian Weyer | NNUG Kristiansand | 05/30/2007 | | Christian Weyer | NNUG Kristiansand | 05/31/2007 | | | |
|
|
|
| |
|
|
| | ABOUT Windows Vista and Office 2007 Community Launch Team | Windows Vista and Office 2007 Community Launch Team provided logistic for you User Group speakers so that they could easily prepare to deliver presentations about Vista, Office 2007, .NET Framework 3.0 and Exchange 2007. Also, CLT provided CLT Resource Kit with
Interesting facts: Members of Community Launch Team are INETA and Culminus board members through regions, project management and infrastructure support was done under supervision of Microsoft.
Total of 1769 User Group (30%~530 of them INETA UG) around word enrolled for this project, more than 100 being from Europe! Thanks all for your support
More about CLT... | |
|
|
| | | |