Implements IVillage - Last Night's Space Coast .Net User Group Meeting

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Last Night's Space Coast .Net User Group Meeting by Christian Loris

The meeting was a success. Before leaving work to go to the meeting I checked the clicktoattend roster. 14 people signed up. I was hoping for a smaller group for my first presentation but was none the less suprised and delighted by the interest. The actual turnout was solid and all went fairly well. Lots of good questions and even got corrected on one or two points. The presentation went for an hour and a half and I only counted a few people dozing off. Here is the slide deck for those who are interested.

The User Group has had strong turn out the last two meetings and I think we will be having a strong next meeting with Cory Foy on Ruby for C# Developers. Used to be a half dozen folks sitting in the room. I am hopeful a combination of good technical content and community are really driving the groups success. I made a strong push to have more members deliver content and try to trim down on the Microsoft bleeding edge speakers. Not that I don't enjoy the Microsoft bleeding edge content, but most people won't get to implement Silverlight or LINQ for a while. The talks on subjects like WCF, Enterprise Library, Ruby, Extensibility Patterns, etc. seem to generate more genuine interest and leave attendees with value.

One more word of thanks for all who attended. If you have any feedback, please feel free to email me!

Thursday, August 16, 2007 4:12:27 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Comments [2] User Group |

Friday, August 17, 2007 5:16:29 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

Chris

I enjoyed your presentation very much. It was very apparent that you had put a lot of preparation into it. The MS validation block is broad and deep topic. You kept the presentation moving a good speed that allowed you to cover the entire validation block library and drill down into specific areas to expose the most useful features. You also provided a contextual framework for how the validation block fits in the Enterprise Library. Thanks for passing on your knowledge.

I agree the topics need to be more immediately usable and relevant. The fact that several people traveled from Orlando to attend your validation block presentation, attests to the need to balance motivational 'bleeding edge' content with consumable and usable knowledge. I look forward to next few topics they should be very good.

Chris there was/is a possible downside to your presentation. Because it was your first presentation and you did such a fine job with it, our expectations are higher. You will have to do an equally good, or better, job on your next presentation :)

Frank

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Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09:45 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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