Archive for the ‘User Group’ tag
“Deep Dive – SharePoint 2010″ by Riyadh SharePoint User Group
Riyadh SharePoint User Group will be organizing their next User Group event to be held on February 18, 2009 at the Microsoft Innovation Center, Alyamama University, Riyadh. The event will provide deep knowledge about SharePoint 2010, Administration, Development and Upgrade while providing live demos. This event will also give you quick “how to do” with SharePoint Lists and using Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010.
Why should you attend the event?
- If you are eager to learn and get ready for SharePoint 2010
- You want to win Windows 7 Ultimate
- You want to have chance to Win XBOX 360
- A Chance to Win 400 GB USB Hard Drive Include SharePoint 2007 and 2010 All Software Virtual PC and HyperV Images
- Cool Give Ways including Books, USBs, Reading Material etc.
- Chance to ask questions and get answers to your problems.
- Get SharePoint 2010 All Software Hyper V Image. (Bring your USB Disk with around 15 GB Size)
United Arab Emirates – Microsoft “MVP Lunch” in Pictures
Pooya Darugar, Local Software Economy Lead from Microsoft Gulf recently hosted a “MVP Lunch” for all the existing MVPs and people who are active in the local communities who has the potential to become the future MVPs. Click here to see our previous post about this event.
Meet Daron Yöndem – Silverlight MVP and Microsoft Regional Director from Turkey
Tell us who you are?
My name is Daron Yöndem. I’m a Microsoft Regional Director, currently a Silverlight MVP leading INETA Turkey. I’m the founder of Deveload Software, an ISV based in Istanbul. For the last five years we are focused on UX as a .NET house. We are building Silverlight and WPF apps including rich multitouch implementations. I have two books about ASP.NET AJAX and one about Internet Explorer 8 development.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got awarded on 2008 as an ASP.NET MVP and had the chance to be one of the first five Silverlight MVPs in the world. It was a great luck to have the new competency declared at the same moment as my renewal period
I’m an MVP who likes capturing screencast, writing articles on local User Groups and physical interaction which is (for a computer geek) seminars and conferences about technical beauties. I feel very lucky leading INETA Turkey and our 30+ User Groups. We have annual events with different concepts where we get 10+ INETA Speakers and lots of MVPs contributing to the community.
Microsoft “MVP Lunch”, United Arab Emirates
Pooya Darugar, Local Software Economy Lead from Microsoft Gulf is hosting a “MVP Lunch” for all the existing MVPs or people who are active in the local communities who has the potential to become the future MVPs. This meetup will be hosted at Tawasol Restaurant (map), which is near Clock Tower, Deira on Thursday, 28 January, 2010 at 2:30 pm. If you want to attend this meetup, just shoot an email to Pooya for confirmation. The agenda of this meeting will be:
- Getting to know everyone
- Sharing the MVP experience
- TechEd – how we can drive attendance, what do we want to see in sessions
- State of the user groups
.Net Club launched at The Arab American University, Jenin
Recently, a team composed of 6 students including Naeem Khaleel, Shadi Salameh, Heba Saleh, Nedaa’ Kmail, Shada Mazen and Ahmad Nairat launched the .NET Club at The Arab American University of Jenin in Palestine. Ahmad Nairat is also the Microsoft Student Partner of this unversity. More than 70+ student, teachers and doctors attended the event. Some of the prominent members from the university were
- Dr. Muath Sabha
- Dr. Odwan Yaseen
- Dr. Khalid Rabaya’a
- Mr. Sami Awad
- Mr. Tariq Kmail
- Mr. Sanajel Alawni
Jordan – First .Net Club Launch at Petra University by Jordev
Ahmad Barqawi, the newly selected Microsoft Student Partner from Petra University worked with the local .Net club members and Petra University supervisors to launch the first .net club at Petra University. The launch ceremony included many activities and topics such as Imagine Cup Competition 2010, Introduction about the community and its importance, an introduction about .Net, ASP.net, AJAX and JQuery.
Jordev guys were also there to help and spread the knowledge. Three of the remarkable Jordev members participated in the event are Mohamed Waleed, Abdullah Abdelhaq and Omar Mowahed. The sessions were useful and students were happy to be updated in such topics and were very enthusiastic to join the weekly community night events given by Jordev, JITPros and JSUG @ Microsoft Innovation Center.
Saudi Arabia – Exclusive “Gulf Developers Conference” Pictures for MicrosoftFeed
GDC’09 has been concluded few weeks back in Riyadh where it has been attended by over 3,200 technical professionals. Some attendees came from different regions of Saudi Arabia and from neighboring Gulf countries. GDC’09 has been sponsored by top technical solution and service providers like SSS IT, Link.NET, Nesma, Sure Technologies, New Horizons, Zidny, ExecuTrain. It was also been sponsored by Nas Air (regional airline) and Jarir Bookstore (largest retailer in Saudi). A full team of researchers from one of the top universities in Saudi (King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals) have attended the event to showcase one of the most famous solutions on Windows Mobile.
List of Microsoft technical communities in Saudi Arabia
RSUG
http://www.sharepointgroups.org/rsug/default.aspx
RSUG is the primary SharePoint user group in Saudi Arabia. It consists of a set of great technical consultants from different well known partners in the industry.
- International Associations: ISPA, INETA, CULMINIS
- Community lead: Jerry Yasir
VirManSec
IT Professional community that consists of strong potential IT Pros and technical experts who are working for top Microsoft partners in the areas of virtualization, security and system management (Windows Server technologies).
- International Associations: CULMINIS
- Community Lead: Asem Hourani (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=A7574DBE-B82B-48C4-A51D-3E52B5B521C7)
DevLifeStyle
Devlifestyle community is the second oldest community in Saudi that is lead by a number of great technical experts in the areas of .NET development, SQL Server BI, and BizTalk technologies.
- International Associations: INETA , CULMINIS
- Community Lead: Mohamad Halabi
Saudi Arabia – Gulf Developers Conference in Pictures
Gulf Developer Conference was the biggest developer event that took place in Saudi Arabia. This was a 3-days conference that attracted more than 2,400 attendees from Saudi Arabia and near-by Gulf countries. The conference was held at Al-Yamamah University, on the same premise of the new Microsoft Innovation Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Now we are looking forward for TechEd Middle East. Do register between Tuesday, December 01, 2009 to Sunday, December 27, 2009 to avail Super Early Bird Offer which entitles you to a $230 discount off the regular price. Here are some pictures from the Gulf Developers Conference.
Windows 7 Launch at Lebanese American University
Lebanese User Group in association with Microsoft and LAU DotNet Club is organizing a “Windows 7 Launch” event at Lebanese American University – Beirut, Lebanon on Tuesday, 15 December 2009.
Lebanese User Group is the first and only official non-profit PASS Chapter operating in Lebaon. They are sponsord by Microsoft and PASS. They also facilitate the knowledge and network among the Lebanese community by organizing meetings and events to hear the top industry speakers and get other valuable offers and encourage the community sense among members. They spread the knowledge of Microsoft SQL Server, BI platform and the entire spectrum of Microsoft technologies.
This Windows 7 launch event will be covered live with the help of Microsoft Live Meeting. Here are the details:
- Subject – Power of Students
- Start Time – Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 4:00 PM EET ( +02:00 GMT)
- End Time – Tuesday, Dec 15, 2009 6:00 PM EET
- Attendee URL – https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/usergroups/join?id=FP4TP7&role=attend&pw=f.C2D69%7Es
- Meeting ID – FP4TP7
- Attendee Entry Code – f.C2D69~s
SharePoint 2010 TechDay!
Egypt SharePoint User Group and .NetWork User Group recently organized SharePoint 2010 TechDay at Dar El Deyafa, Ain Shams University. TechDays is a new type of user group gathering where it consists of 2+ sessions talking about a specific technology from the basic to advanced levels going in sequence to expose audience to different areas of that technology.
Pakistan – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch in Pictures
SharePoint Pakistan User Group recently arranged “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. During the event the speakers covered latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and provided real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
Starting a New Microsoft User Group or Community – Guidelines and Links
Creating User Group or technical groups is not easy step. It requires lot of time and resources to find people who are interested in working with you as volunteers and successfully creating a trust in your group members minds. But once everything is up and running the result is great. So while answering the question I was able to note down the things and resources to get help from. It is given below.
- Name the User Group and define your scope, objectives and target audience.
- Get Volunteer/Community Geeks on board – You need to define a Board build a relationship between the volunteers who are interested to be part of such a group and designate positions and responsibilities.
- Distribute Roles according to Skills and availability
- Create Check Lists of Tasks
- Design Group Logo and Moto
- Try to find a Local Microsoft Community Lead or MVP to guide you and present you some contacts.
- Do board meeting in the early weeks to discuss user group topics and vision for 6 months at least.
- Create a Facebook/Online Group Site and publish your Group with basic introduction to get peoples interest and on-board.
SharePoint Pakistan User Group – SharePoint 2010 Community Launch
SharePoint Pakistan User Group is arranging a “SharePoint 2010 Community Launch” that will be held on 5th of December, 2009 at University of Central Punjab, Lahore. Technical Communities play very important role in helping developers stay in touch with other developers, learn latest technologies and getting solutions to the problems they are facing in the their working environments This event will help reigniting the communities in Lahore as well as help restructuring SharePoint Pakistan User Group and related Microsoft User Groups.
The event will exclusively disclose the latest technologies like Windows 7, Visual Studio 2010, ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio Team System and while providing real world guidance on Developing Application on top of SharePoint 2007, ASP.NET, Exploring Implementation and Integration scenarios and getting ready for SharePoint 2010.
Meet Saifullah Shafiq – SharePoint Server MVP from Pakistan
Tell us who you are?
My name is Saifullah Shafiq. I am a SharePoint Server MVP. I am a SharePoint consultant and author. I have been writing technical programming articles/tutorials since 1999. My technical articles have been published on 62 different programming related web sites. I have also written for magazines, both paper-based and online. I am founder of SharePoint Pakistan User Group, which is the first and only SharePoint related user community in Pakistan. We started this group in 2006. Currently it has over 450 members.
Tell us about your MVP history, when were you first awarded?
I got my first MVP award in 2007. I got renewed in 2008 and 2009. It felt really good to be honored with an award. I have been doing volunteer work since 1999 but this was the first time I was recognized by the Microsoft for my community work. There were only a handful of MVPs in Pakistan in 2006. The most prominent were Saqib Ilyas, Adnan Hashmi and Hammad Rajoub.
What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I read books and blogs to keep myself up to date. Technical blogs are an excellent way of keeping oneself up to date. I also attend conferences and technical events.
What does being an MVP mean to you?
It’s an honor. It keeps me motivated. Honestly speaking, it’s not easy to be an MVP. It requires lot of hard work and commitment on your part. You don’t do it for money. You do it as a passion, to help the community. Many people ask me these questions. How do you become an MVP? Is it easy? Is it difficult? I tell them it’s all hard work and your love for the community. You share your knowledge with the community. You help them by answering their technical questions. You have to spend time.
