posted on Monday, January 09, 2006 12:39 AM
by
davidboschmans
Belgian Community Update: 2 new User Groups
First of all: Happy New Year and Best Wishes for 2006!
After having enjoyed two weeks of holidays with my family I'm back in business! I left Brussels on Saturday and am actually spending the week in Seattle atteding TechReady2, an internal Microsoft training event.
Despite the holiday season the last couple of weeks some people involved in the Belgian community have been working hard on collecting feedback on their ideas and setting up a structure to let the community operate efficiently through user groups:
Rédo asks for some assistance on setting up a user group for French speaking people. You can help him out by answering this poll which will result in a number of topics, expectations and interests that will be covered in future user group meetings. Complete the poll at http://213.189.5.79/UGBe/UserGroupCreation.aspx. A meeting will be announced soon!
Steven Wilssens announces the first user group meeting of the VISUG, the newly created Visual Studio User Group. The goal is to get the user group up and running in January 2006. Therefore Steven organizes a fist meeting to discuss following topics:
- VISUG Goals
- VISUG Members
- VISUG Membership Conditions
- VISUG Sponsors
- VISUG Management Structure
- Offline Activities
- Monthly Meetings
- Events
- Social Events
- Participation in Microsoft Events
- INETA
- Online Activities
- VISUG website
The meeting is scheduled for January 25th from 18.00 to 21.00 and will take place in the Compuware Belgium offices (Ikaroslaan 21 in 1930 Zaventem, Belgium). Attending this very first meeting will give you the ability to help model and shape the user group. Drop Steven an e-mail if you want to attend so that he can arrange something to drink and eat.
Note that by completing the poll and attending the meeting you will be able to help drive these user groups to what you want them to be. 2006 has started pretty well from a community perspective! Exciting!