Next week, May 14th, Microsoft is holding three free events at the Microsoft office in Mason. ArcReady, MSDN Unleashed and Technet Unleashed. Lots of good stuff on client application development, windows 7 and IE 8.
I gave a talk at the 2009 Kalamazoo X conference that was entitled “Community – Get Involved!”. This was an interesting event where it wasn’t focused on technology, but rather soft skills and personal development. One of the organizers of the event, Mike Eaton, had contacted me a few weeks prior to the event and asked me to do this talk on what community is. What he didn’t know was that I had been keeping a blog post (this one in fact) sitting in my drafts folder for quite some time.
I’m a little biased, but I have to say, the event was AWESOME! First off, we had a 25% increase in attendance over last year! We had 191 software professionals through the door at the Roberts Centre in Wilmington, OH. From the stand point of one of the organizers the event just couldn’t have gone smoother.
I’d like to thank the main CODODN staff: Jim Holmes, Carey Payette, Justin Kohnen, Bob Sledge, Matt Rigling and Chris Barth.