PDC

Tuesday night BOFs at 9:00 PM and 10:15 PM..

Dave Noderer — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:11:00 GMT

I know there are a lot of activities this evening but don't forget about the Birds of a Feather Sessions hosted by INETA (the International .NET Association).

BOF Sessions are fun, informal and interactive, refreshing after a day of listening to presentations.

At 9:00 PM there will be sessions on Managing Programmers (John Moody), Software Factories (Gunther Lenz), Writing Secure Code (Keith Brown), DotNetNuke (Shaun Walker), .NET vs. Java (Leo Shuster), Distributed Atomic Transcations (William Tay) and Avalon Extreme (Michale Latta).

Then at 10:15 PM the sessions are Designing for Service Orientation (Erik Johnson), INETA Today and Tommorrow (Damir Tomicic), Tablet PC, If you build it will they come? (Julie Lerman), .NET Code Protection (Gabriel Torok) and the Future of the Deep Coder (Doug Adams).

Unlike last night, the conference people assure us the buses will be running until 12:15 AM so there will not be a need to cut sessions short!

INETA PDC 2005 Badge Inserts

Dave Noderer — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:04:00 GMT

Don't forget to pick up your “INETA” badge insert at the INETA table in the foyer overlooking the south lobby. Just look for the high quality plastic palm trees! We will also be having drawings for two windows media players this week.

If you have any questions about user groups in general or user groups in your area please ask any of the INETA people at the table.

PDC 2005 Call for BOF Sessions... and volunteers!!

Dave Noderer — Thu, 04 Aug 2005 23:39:00 GMT

If you are going to PDC this year (Sept 11-16th in LA), please consider submitting a Birds of a Feather sesssion at:

http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/bof/bof.aspx

Unlike past years PDC and Teched's you must be registered to get to the registration page to submit or vote (http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/bof/bofvoting.aspx) on sessions.

While your at it, we (INETA) are looking for volunteers to help at PDC, primarily to help with the actual sessions. Moderators submit session ideas and the ones that are selected will be scheduled. Volunteers are needed to staff the rooms, introduct the Moderators, make sure the mikes are working and generally be a facilitator.

There will be three nights and seven rooms. Ideally each volunteer would be able to cover 1 room for at least one night. It is a lot of fun and there will likely be some perks tbd...

If you are interested please send email to bof@ineta.org!

INETA at PDC2005 - Week starting Sunday September 11th

Dave Noderer — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 12:37:00 GMT

Planning still in progress but INETA will be running the Birds of a Feather sessions again, Stuart Celarier who did a great job for Teched 2005 has already starting working on them with Microsoft.

Still in discussion what other presence INETA may have at PDC.