INETA

INETA Speaker

Bill Evjen — Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:52:00 GMT

Thanks to the INETA crew for selecting me as one of the nine new INETA speakers!

http://www.ineta.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=32&NewsID=2

TechEd 2005 in Orlando

Bill Evjen — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 04:17:00 GMT

I made it to TechEd 2005 in Orlando. It's raining! Oh well. It is supposed to rain all week. Oh well again. In Orlando yourself? Feel free to contact me.

My plan is to post my notes through this blog ... we'll see how that works out.

I went out with a lot of the INETA folk for dinner tonight before the big INETA UG leader conference tomrrow at the JW Marriott here. We ate too much food. I didn't see Emeril. Oh well again.

INETA's January Newsletter

Bill Evjen — Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:52:00 GMT

http://www.ineta.org/newsletters/2005_01.htm

INETA's January Newsletter ... read up on what is going on. Other newsletters can be found here as well.

INETA LATAM Newsletter

Bill Evjen — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:36:00 GMT

INETA LATAM put out a great newsletter this month. Here is the English version:

http://www.willydev.net/ineta/boletines/en_200407.aspx

Code Brew Happening in Boston!

Bill Evjen — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:45:00 GMT

From Robert Hurlbut's blog ... they are starting up a Boston CodeBrew! Outstanding! Our CodeBrew here in St. Louis was outstanding.

INETA Adds New Speakers To Speakers Bureau!

Bill Evjen — Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:03:00 GMT

http://www.ineta.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=32&NewsID=1

[FROM THE INETA SITE]

We are very happy to announce that INETA will be adding 8 new speakers to the North American Speaker Bureau for the 2005 calendar year.

They are:

We will have their bios up on ineta.org shortly. INETA member group leaders can submit requests for these speakers immediately.

Congrats to the new speakers, and thanks to all the folks who submitted their candidatures for 2005.

Chris Pels, .NET, and Government

Bill Evjen — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:45:00 GMT

Nice to see Chris Pels out there pitching the “truth” to the local government on technology issues before us.

http://geekswithblogs.net/cpels/archive/2004/12/14/17517.aspx

INETA Appoints Two New Board Members!

Bill Evjen — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 15:24:00 GMT

The International .NET Association (INETA) has appointed two new board members for a three year term. This brings the board membership to seven people. The two new board members are:

Julie Lerman

Chris Pels

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Julie Lerman leads the Vermont .NET User Group. Chris Pels leads the Boston .NET User Group. Both of these folks have gone out of their way to help make INETA what it is today. They are both outstanding volunteers and are eager to help INETA grow in this next year. The board position is a volunteer position and has a lot of responsibility. INETA manages a good-sized budget to help support the massive amount of .NET user groups out there in the world. There is a lot to do in this area and we are real big believers in “community helping community for the love of technology”.

Announcing Two New INETA Board Positions

Bill Evjen — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 13:14:00 GMT

INETA, a non-profit organization dedicated to the
support of Windows-programming based user groups, is
adding two new board members.

In the search for these new additions, we are asking
for either your application and/or suggestions for
these posts.

INETA will decide sometime in November. A board
member's position on the board lasts for three years.

If you are interested, we ask for you to submit a
small "resume" (of sorts) which details out your
involvement with INETA and/or community-based user
groups. (Send to evjen@yahoo.com with the subject line: “INETA Board Position“)

Duties will include:
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* Involvement with board decisions
* Assisting with the management of a budget
* Involvement with weekly teleconferences
* Participation with quarterly board meetings
* Occasionally dealing with accounting, budgeting, legal dealings and more
* Involvement with Vendors which include teleconferences, meetings, discussions via email threads, vendor-based community programs and more
* Dealing with press to present INETA's goals, mission and accomplishments
* Working on various projects that can include large events, user group events, speaker liaisons, proposal generation, report generation and more

We are looking for a person that is dedicated to the
user group community and sees the power of independent
user groups, their members and their goals within
their separate communities.

INETA just keeps growing

Bill Evjen — Tue, 05 Oct 2004 14:48:00 GMT

The INETA board meets every 3 or 4 months face-to-face to go over issues that INETA faces and plan for the next quarter. This last meeting (last Saturday) was very special for us. INETA brought in the board and a representative from each of the INETA committees (UG Relations, Marketing, Infrastructure, Academic and Speakers) to meet with INETA's first full-time employee. Our new employee (name to be announced soon) will start on November 1st, but came to meet us at our meeting over the weekend. This was a much needed addition as we have grow so fast and to such a large size, that we really needed someone who could keep all the volunteers on track and grapple with the tremendous amount of logistics that are now required to run INETA. It is a great time in our history!

We spent the first half of the day going over the history of INETA and helping our new employee understand our mission, goals and activities as well as our structure and volunteer base. We then spent the second half of Saturday focused on INETA in the next 12 months. Boy, do we have a lot planned. Some nice additions include:

More speaker events
More user group care packages
More volunteer rewards
A bigger and better user group leaders summit at TechEd in Orlando
A new website that brings together all of the INETA regions
More detailed and better INETA status reports
Newsletters that are better targeted

Do you want to help out? We are always looking for more volunteers, so feel free to contact me or one of the many other INETA volunteers that make INETA happen. Do you realize that we have almost 100 volunteers out there that run INETA? It is simply amazing.

INETA is also going to be looking to add two new board members rather quickly and I will soon post on the details on how to apply. Stay tuned!