Toronto SharePoint

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]

SharePoint User Group: Wednesday, April 18

User Group Leader — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:16:29 GMT

Nadeem Mitha is Presenting the Toronto SharePoint User Group on April 18^th

Beyond Web Parts: Rapid Web Application Development using Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

At 2 Bloor St West (8th Floor) at 7 PM – Come at 6 PM for pizza

Discover the advantages of leveraging SharePoint as a platform for web-based applications
Learn a tried-and-tested approach to extending SharePoint lists in order to facilitate complex entity relationships
Find out how to customize various out-of-the-box behavior to get what you need out of SharePoint for your web applications

Nadeem Mitha is a certified SharePoint technology specialist. He has developed solutions in SharePoint 2003 and 2007 for clients including Microsoft, Citigroup and CIBC.

Space is limited, register today! To RSVP for this meeting either click here http://www.tspug.com/ or send e-mail to register@tspug.com with the subject line "[TSPUG Registration] 2007-04 Meeting" and be sure to include your full name in the message body.

Toronto SharePoint User Group, February 20 is Workflow!

User Group Leader — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:54:00 GMT

Featured Speaker: Bill Brockbank, SharePoint Specialist, Navantis
Topic: Introduction to Windows Workflow in Windows SharePoint

Overview of Workflows in Sharepoint
Workflows activates in Sharepoint
How to create a Workflow with SharePoint Designer (Demo)
Overview of the sample Workflow in the Windows Sharepoint Services SDK
Walk through of the requirement for developing a Sharepoint Workflow in Visual Studio (Demo)

Bill's a wealth of knowledge, this should be a great night. Membership and attendance are free as always, but please RSVP through the TSPUG site at http://www.eidenai.ca.

Thanks again to EI, Nexient and Microsoft for their continued support!

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

Toronto SharePoint User Group - Oct 11 Meeting

User Group Leader — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 14:10:00 GMT

For details and directions visit www.tspug.com!
October 13 Schedule:

6:00-6:30	Sign-in, Eat, Meet 'n' Greet
6:30-6:45	Questions and Answers: An open discussion among members. Bring your questions!
6:45-8:20	How Office Clients interact with the Microsoft Office System Servers. Presenter: Savash Alic, Microsoft Consulting How Office Clients interact with the Microsoft Office System Servers We talk so much about the great and cool capabilities of MOSS that sometimes we miss the great integration out there with the Office System. Savash's focus will be how Office Clients interact with the Server. Excel -> Excel Services Word -> Publish Web Content through Word Content Converters PowerPoint -> Publish into slide libraries Access -> Print ready and picture perfect reports from SharePoint Outlook -> Various integration InfoPath -> Publish forms through Outlook and collect results Publish Web-based Information Panel to collect Meta-Data in Office Suite.
8:20-8:30	Prize Draw

RSVP Today

Space is limited, register today! To RSVP for this meeting either click here to create the e-mail automatically or send e-mail to register@tspug.com with the subject line "[TSPUG Registration] 2005-10 Meeting" and be sure to include your full name in the message body.

Business Scorecard Manager: Tonight in Toronto!

User Group Leader — Wed, 10 May 2006 14:59:00 GMT

Tonight's Toronto SharePoint Users Group meeting will feature the Business Scorecard Manager:

Business Scorecards provide graphical snapshots of your business data, revealing underlying trends and critical inflection points. Come learn out how this latest Business Intelligence tool works with SQL Server Analysis Services (for SQL 2000 or 2005) to make real-time business dashboards that management will love. [See a demo]

You can register at the link above. See you there!

April 12 - Toronto SharePoint User Group Tonight!

User Group Leader — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:52:00 GMT

Tonight, CorasWorks will be showing off some great components for SharePoint. If you've used out-of-box SharePoint at all, you probably found some gaps in what it's capable of. CorasWorks fills in those gaps to help you construct some great, useful, navigable apps.

I'll also be describing some RSS tricks I've recently used for SharePoint development, and we'll have the usual fireside chat to begin, including a review of the recent SharePoint 2003 Advanced Concepts book by Nadrowsi and Draper. All this and a free copy for one lucky attendee at tonight's meeting.

See you there!

CorasWorks Workplace Suite and Collaborative Business Applications
Venkat Muthukrishnan
CorasWorks Workplace Suite™ empowers IT to deliver end solutions to your users rapidly with little to no administration, freeing up your time to focus on the more custom needs of your users. Join us as Venkat Muthukrishnan of CorasWorks demonstrates CorasWorks Workplace Suite™ – Winter 2006. The seventh version of CorasWorks’ industry leading product suite delivers an “Active” integrated workplace that empowers IT and end users to easily automate common tasks and drive business activity. This capability works with CorasWorks Roll-Up and Navigation capabilities, and allows users to take action on information located throughout their “Active Workplace”.

SharePoint for Wednesday, Feb 8: Optimise SharePoint Search with Mondosoft Analysis Tools

User Group Leader — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:15:00 GMT

Toronto SharePoint User Group

Optimise SharePoint Search with Mondosoft Analysis Tools

When: Wednesday, February 8. 6:30-8:30pm
Where: 2 Bloor West, 8th Floor (CDI Education)

SharePoint search is pretty good, but it's a science all its own and one of the roughest pieces to configure well. When search is left untended, users won't find what they need and when that happens, they tune out and start complaining about your taxonony. Give that a year or so and you've created a brand new file dump. What to do? For starters, take advantage of Mondosoft's knowledge, they've been experts on search since 1998 and they're coming to teach us how to get search right.

Learn how Peoples Bank reduced the average number of searches to locate content from 2.5 to 1.2, that's a number most people don't get with Google: http://www.marketingsherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentid=3167

Steve Bang of Mondosoft will be flying in for this presentation, let's give him a warm welcome!

Register now and see what else is in store for 2006! And being an old-school UG, we start every meeting with an old fashioned discussions. So bring your SharePoint questions, meet your colleagues around town, and have some fun.

http://www.tspug.com/

Toronto SharePoint UG - Jan 11 - Small Business Server and WSS

User Group Leader — Wed, 04 Jan 2006 17:37:00 GMT

Toronto SharePoint Users Group - January 11

Small Business Server and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS)

Demonstration and discussion about installation and use of Microsoft Small Business Server 2003: SBS contains Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, Windows Sharepoint Services, and other great components. The CompanyWeb site installed by default on the SBS server has great potential - but low utilization in most small businesses. Help those businesses understand the power and potential of their installed product.

Presentation by Calvin McLennan, a Microsoft MVP for SBS. Calvin twice crossed Canada last year to present on SBS to MS Partners and User Groups.

Schedule
6:00 Doors open, eat, meet and greet.
6:30 Questions and Answers - Bring your questions!
6:45 Feature Presentation
8:15 Prizes and Announcements

Location: 2 Bloor Street West, 8th Floor

Please RSVP for this meeting at TSPUG.com. Directions and more can be found on the website. See you there!

Toronto SharePoint User Group - December 14

User Group Leader — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:01:00 GMT

Date: Wednesday, December 14

Topic: SharePoint 2006: A look at the future

Take a look at SharePoint 2006 in this special session. In addition to live demonstrations of Beta 1, we'll review the new features for document management, content management, records management, workflow and more. Reserve your seat today!

Presenter: Eli Robillard, Eidenai Innovations

[Details and Registration on TSPUG.com]

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