Posts Tagged ‘HRNUG’

1. Hampton Roads .NET Users Group – First Meeting Success!

   Posted on January 15th, 2009 by Kevin

   The first meeting was a big success! We had over 30 attendees, which is outstanding for a first meeting. It’s amazing to see how big the .NET community really is.

   Lessons learned:
   – Don’t trust Google Maps or Live Maps to get people to your location. Give them step-by-step directions.
   – There is no such thing as enough chairs.
   – 25 ft VGA cables need high refresh rates to work properly.
   – Have a plan B presentation lined up in case the speaker doesn’t/can’t show.

   Guy Hurst was our guinea pig for this sessions, and special thanks to him. He did a awesome job, and we look forward to having him back for another session a few months down the line.

   Next step for the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group is to get a website that can be better used to provide information to the public. I will be the speaker in February. My talk will be on Windows Presentation Foundation, and I’ll show some of the basic concepts that a WinForms developer will have to learn to make the leap.

   I was going to post pictures, but 80% of them are of me and people wouldn’t appreciate that! Sorry!

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

2. HRNUG Logo

   Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Kevin

   

   One of our local guys, Russ Terrillion has designed a logo for the Hampton Roads .NET Users Group.  I’m posting it here so folks can take a look at it since the website is still a few weeks away.  Post comments, let us know what you think!

   Thanks a lot Russ!

   Edit: Updated the logo with another version.

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

3. HRNUG Pre-meeting Raffle!

   Posted on December 22nd, 2008 by Kevin

   All Hampton Roads .NET User Group invitees and newsletter folks received this email today. It applies to everyone though, so I’ll post it here.

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   Friends of HRNUG,
   You are receiving this message because you are current registered as a HRNUG January Meeting attendee or you’re registered for the HRNUG newsletter.

   As a way to jump start the user group year, we are giving away a free pass to MSDN DevCon (http://www.msdndevcon.com/Pages/start.aspx) in Washington D.C. for Friday, January 16th.  This is a great opportunity to learn about all the cool technology that was dropped at PDC this year.  This ticket typically costs $99 per person, but the winner of this pass will be able to go at no charge.

   This does NOT include travel expenses.  You are responsible for getting to D.C. the day of the conference, but we’ll make sure you get in the door.

   How do I enter?
   Simply send an email to this address (hrnug.admin@gmail.com) with the subject MSDN DevCon Raffle.  The winner will be announced at the end of the January 13th meeting.  You must be present to win.  Please do not enter if you will not be able to attend on January 16th.  To RSVP for the January meeting, please go to http://www.hrnug.org for more information.

   Happy Holidays!

   Kevin Griffin
   Group Leader
   Hampton Roads .NET Users Group