Wow! That is the best word to describe the incredible day Wisconsin had relative to .NET, just this past Saturday. We had 400 people attend a massive event in a very nice hotel (Thanks, Radisson Hotel Milwaukee West!) The hotel and their staff were amazing. A special thank you goes out to Katy Lederer, Sales & Catering Manager there for her outstanding support.
The excitement has begun to spread around the blogosphere already, but I think it’s important that I send out some additional thoughts.
Some of the posts I’ve seen so far include:
1. Chris Pietschmann - http://pietschsoft.com/Blog/archive/2005/02/28/324.aspx
2. Gerry Heidenreich - http://edsid.com/blog/archive/2005/03/06/329.aspx
3. Scott Isaacs - http://www.tapmymind.com/blog
I’m sure there will be others coming soon about this event, considering the incredible speakers we had…
Rocky Lhotka - http://www.lhotka.net/Default.aspx
Scott Guthrie - http://www.scottgu.com/
Rob Howard - http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/
Chris Mayo – no blog L
Jason Beres - http://geekswithblogs.net/jberes/
The event went flawlessly. We had perfectly professional A/V support from CAVCOMM, the same company Microsoft uses for all of their MSDN/TechNet/TS2 events around the Midwest. They did a great job – thanks to Ed Kowalski from CAVCOMM for his superior support!
I also need to thank a great crew on the Executive Committee of the WI .NET UG for all of their support and help to make this event the biggest .NET UG event in history. Thanks Guys!
Additionally, our sponsors made this event possible and we had 14 of them! Sponsors were broken down into 2 tiers of support, including…
Platinum Sponsors
· Microsoft
· International .NET Association (INETA)
· Serlio Software
· Inacom Information Systems
· New Resources Corporation
Gold Sponsors
· Mortgagebot
· Whyte, Hirschboeck, Dudek, S.C.
· SafeNet Consulting
· Compuware
· Technology Consulting Corporation
· Berbee
· Centare Group
· Oochie Web Hosting
· SilverTrain
· InfoCor
Presentations will be posted within the next 2-3 weeks on the URL site listed below. We also video-taped the presentations and plan to make them available on DVD for a nominal cost. More information will be coming shortly. If you’d like to reserve a copy today, please e-mail president@wi-ineta.org and let us know your interest. Thanks!
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