F.NUG

Running a user group .... about what I expected

Jason Row — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:34:05 GMT

Well after agreeing to take over managing my local user group I've managed to have 2 meetings in the past couple of months and interest seems to be building back up. On Wednesday it was my turn to present on some of the new T-SQL features found in SQL Server 2008. It felt good to be up front and presenting again as it has been a while for me. I was a bit rushed for time since I was the second of two presenters but that was fine with me. I simply cut out some demos.

I know I made some mental notes about my presentation style that I want to work on for next time. First is to S-L-O-W down. I can speak a mile a minute when I'm uber excited about a topic. Second is to really work practice my presentation. My next one will be in Jan so I have some time again and I want to truely knowledgeable about my subject. At work I bounce around from one technology to another so quickly I don't get a great chance of becoming an "expert" but I want to be able to answer questions and not just read a canned script.

I think I'm going to be lucky with the user group as the word is getting out and registrations are increasing (50 percent turn out of those that pre-registered for this week's meeting). Next I need to keep looking at increasing the membership and finding some local sponsors. At least I've got a good list of people who have offered to be speakers, but I still want to develop some more local talent in this area.

I knew it would take a fair bit of my personal time to get things going again and I'm happy with the progress. I just hope that the attendees are finding the meetings useful. A few people have stepped up to offer their help with the UG which has been great for me as I know I can't do this all by myself.

Here's to seeing big growth for F.NUG in the new year.

October FNUG meeting

Jason Row — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:00:13 GMT

The Igloo Coder is making his way east to present to the 4 atlantic .NET user groups. He'll be in Fredericton on Thursday October 23 to present to F.NUG. Pass the word to anyone you know who's working with .NET. Here's the details.

Date: Oct-23-2008
Time: Meet and greet @ 6:30 - presentation from 7 - 9pm
Location: UNB Campus, ITC building - room GC127

Topic: Fundamentals of Object Oriented Programming
Presented by: Donald Belcham
Notes:
If you read MSDN, books or attend the average conference, you will be exposed to a world of promised drag and drop goodness and framework APIs. Once you get to work and begin building and maintaining applications you find that these promises aren’t being realized. Other programming communities have long touted the use of Object Oriented Programming fundamentals to ensure that and application’s code base exists in a healthy state. This presentation will look at the fundamentals of OOP that have long been forgotten by mainstream .NET programmers but are making a comeback. The techniques discussed in this session will be practical and something that each attendee will be able to take to their job the day after attending

Upcoming F.NUG meeting

Jason Row — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:56:54 GMT

The next meeting for the Fredericton .NET User Group will be at the end of October. Here's the poster that I did up and note that you MUST register for this event.

Upcoming Fredericton .NET UG meeting - April 11th

Jason Row — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:50:00 GMT

The next meeting for the Fredericton .NET UG will be held on April 11th.

Click the poster to go to the user group web site and register for this event. Hurry, it's filling up fast and seating is limited.