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Toronto Code Camp 2008

User Group Leader — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:20:38 GMT

Date:
Saturday March 1st, 2008

Event Description:
In case you aren't familiar with Code Camps, they are designed to provide a forum for the developer community to speak, network and share ideas. In recent years, many user groups had lost the participation of their members for presentations. This core principle has been overshadowed by commercial aspects and user groups have really drifted from their fundamental purpose. The main tenets of a Code Camp are:

By and For the Developer Community: Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.
Always Free: Code Camps are always free for attendees.
Community Developed Material: The materials of a Code Camps are always developed by the community. Only original content is accepted. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restrictions.
No Fluff - only Code: Code Camps are code & demo centric, not marketing materials and management overviews.
Community Ownership: All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.
Never occurs during work hours: Code Camps always occur on weekends. This is to increase participation without impacting “work hours”.

Our last event was a huge success with over 350 attendees, 25 sessions, 24 speakers, 20+ volunteers and contributors including Manulife Financial, Microsoft, ObjectSharp Consulting, Infusion, Navantis, DevTeach, etc. This year we will continue to build on the success of the prior Code Camps and increase the number of attendees and make the event an even greater critical and logistical success.

[Details and Registration on www.torontocodecamp.net]

Toronto Code Camp 2007

User Group Leader — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 21:47:00 GMT

Date:
Saturday March 31st, 2007

Are you a developer interested in improving your .NET skills? Then this is the event to attend. The Second Annual Toronto Code Camp promises to be the biggest and best community owned event we've ever had. This free one day seminar with 25 code intensive technical sessions is designed to guide the developer to the next skill level. The focus of a Code Camp is to deliver programming information and sample code that can be used immediately. All training, slides, manuals and demo code are provided free of charge!

Without the support of our generous contributors an event like this would not be possible so I encourage you to visit their sites.

For more information and to register visit http://www.torontocodecamp.net

VSLive Toronto and DevTeach Montreal

User Group Leader — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 18:56:00 GMT

VSLive returns to Toronto for the third year this spring. The conference will take place at the Toronto Congress Centre from April 24 to 27.

VSLive! Toronto will bring together Microsoft insiders and industry experts for four days of real-world insights and demonstrations on Visual Studio.NET, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005, Windows Communication Foundation (Indigo), VB, C#, and more.

VSLive! Toronto is designed to address the issues developers face on a daily basis, providing practical code and architecture in dynamic sessions, keynotes and full-day workshops. VSLive! will also offer .NET Day, a full slate of sessions from the Microsoft VS development team on what to expect next.

If you’re a member of a local .NET user group, you can purchase a Gold Passport for $1,250 USD which is more than $400 off the standard price. Each user group was given a priority discount code for its members to use when registering. If you don’t have the code you should contact your group leader to get it.

For more information please visit http://www.ftponline.com/conferences/vslive/2006/toronto/

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DevTeach International Developer Conference will take place at the Marriot Chateau Champlain in Montreal from May 8 to 12.

DevTeach stands for Developers Teaching. It is a conference done by developers for developers. It offers the elements of an international conference and the elements of a community event. Sessions include both presentation material and, whenever possible, hands-on training. Again, this year, the developer community will meet in Montreal for this international event.

Local .NET user group members can get a $50 discount off the cost of registration. Each user group was given a rebate code for its members to use when registering. If you don’t have the code you should contact your group leader to get it.

For more information please visit http://www.devteach.com/

Toronto Code Camp - January 14, 2006

User Group Leader — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 15:14:00 GMT

Are you a developer interested in improving your .NET skills? Then this is the event to attend. The Toronto Code Camp promises to be the biggest and best community owned event we've ever had. This free one day seminar is designed as a series of intensive code related demos and technical sessions to guide the developer to the next skill level. The continuing goal of Code Camps is to provide an intensive developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating. The focus is on delivering programming information and sample code that can be used immediately. All training, slides, manuals and demo code are provided free of charge!

Check it out at www.torontocodecamp.com

Welcome to the Toronto User Group Community Blog

User Group Leader — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:29:00 GMT

This blog will be used by the leaders of the Microsoft technology focused user groups in Toronto and the surrounding areas. It will mainly be used for meeting announcements so that interested attendees can come to one site or subscribe to one RSS feed to find out what topics are being presented and determine which meetings they want to attend. It will also be used to post general information of interest to the developer community such as code camps or live MSDN events.