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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
