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)

Speakers

Jerry Yasir – RSUG Founder, President, SharePoint Consultant at EJADA
Jerry is Founder and President of Riyadh SharePoint User Group (RSUG.NET), Co-Owner of SharePoint Pakistan User Group and SharePoint Consultant at EJADA, Saudi Arabia. He hold a master degree in Computer Sciences and has nearly 8 Years of experience working in Microsoft Technologies including SharePoint, Microsoft .NET and Project Server. He is currently responsible of executing and managing many large scale SharePoint implementations in Saudi Arabia. Jerry is Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) and also holds MCPD, MCTS WSS 3.0 & SharePoint Server 2007, MCITP (EPM 2007) and MCSD.NET.

Yaseen Rahhal – RSUG Board Member and Technical Manager Sure Technologies
Yaseen Rahhal, Technical Manager at Sure Consulting & Technology, he is an IT Professional focused on Web technologies and enterprise portal solutions. Rahhal is expert in deploying SharePoint solution as he participated in the major SharePoint 2007 Projects in the region, and he is board member of Riyadh
SharePoint Users Group “RSUG”.

Ahmed Abuabdou – RSUG Board Member & Consultant – Sure Technologies
Ahmed Abuabdou, Senior Software Engineer & SharePoint Developer at SURE Technology & Consulting, he enjoys exploring new operating systems, platforms, technologies and programming languages, and considers programming as a hobby. He has been involved with big e-learning SharePoint portals in Saudi-Arabia and is an active member in RSUG.

Thabet Mohammed – Training Manager – ExecuTrain & Riyadh Project User Group Founder
Thabet is an Experienced professional being in the training and education business for around 10 years. He is Microsoft Certified Trainer and Learning Consultant. He is also a PMP and started a Project Management User Group name “Riyadh Project User Group” to improve awareness of Project Management, Microsoft Project and Project Server 2010 in the community.

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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.

Thanks Rami for the pictures!

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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.

What do you do in order to keep up with latest tools and technologies?
I use them! In our company we are focused on using the latest technology. In other words we are focused on choosing the right customers who can somehow absorb the benefits and drawbacks of using the latest technology. In order to keep up with the latest tools first of all you need to keep yourself up to date by following online (blogs) and offline (conferences including PDC, MIX, TechEd) content. Then you should build your own experience stack which can only happen with the real world implementation of your memorized theoretical info.
Finally it’s important to be able to sell it Selling the implementation of the latest technology can be seen as a high risk activity and actually it is. However this is the most fun part which will grant a huge experience to you and your team.

What does being an MVP mean to you?
It means “hard work”! Getting the award is just a start point you get. After being an MVP you should fulfill the expectations of the eyes looking at you from the whole community. The title “MVP” is already very valuable for most of the community members and the industry. It is our job as MVPs to elevate both the title itself and the value inside. This is possible through hard working and sharing “more” technical knowledge in the mean of both quantity and quality.

What do you do when you are not building software’s?
Ahhh.. Ehhh… I consume! I mean.. If I’m not building software I should be using some other software at that moment as a consumer I’m not a no-lifer but building software is both my job and my free-time fun! Ok ok I confess! I played WOW (World Of Warcraft) for a long time. But! it was just to test how multiplayer gaming works from a consumers point of view R&D always…

If you could ask Steve Ballmer one question about Microsoft, what would it be?
What’s next? (I know he will understand me )

Had a chance to attend “MVP Global Summit”? When and how was your experience?
I will be attending this year (2010). MVPs are great people from all around the world. I had the chance to meet a lot of MVPs from different countries at PDC, TechEd North America, Europe, MIX and so on. They are just unpaid original evangelist! They know how it works, they know how to share and they believe on what they do with all hearth! This is the golden mix!

What makes you a great MVP?
I’m trying my best. Answering mails from the community, hosting sessions, organizing user groups and inter-user-group events, writing articles, books, capturing community interviews and screencast. But the most important thing is to be responsive! People are sending mails and looking for solutions to their problems desperately. I know they deserve a good answer in a timely manner. This is why I’m trying to manage my e-mails and pay careful attention to answer each one of them. I feel like “this makes me a good MVP”.

What you think about the MVP’s role in promoting technology in Middle East?
This is a tough question. The international aspect seems developing weakness because of the recent budget-cuts that we see nearly everywhere. It’s getting harder to cover the costs (TNE) and travel to different countries in order to share some content even if you are volunteer. As far as I see most of the MVPs are more active in their own country.
However, Thank God we have internet! and one of the fresh MVP benefits introduced in the last term is the Live Meeting accounts we have! This benefit provides a great way to access different countries all over the world. You can host webcasts on your own and share what you know! This will keep the rhythm up and running. MVP’s will be there to leverage the power of knowledge and new technology in MEA for always.

What is in your computer bag?
This question can lead to an unending list. Starting from my notebook, external hard drives, 3-5 USB memory sticks, presenter, Bluetooth mouse, back-up batteries (4xAAA and 4xAA), MVP badge, INETA notebook stickers (ready to distribute everywhere!), CAT5 cable! (2 meters), a camera and macro tripod… You want me go on?

Who are your favorite Middle East MVPs?

• Wilson Kutegeka
• Rudi Grobler

If you get a chance to suggest one conference in Middle East? What would it be and why?
TechEd MEA is already happening this year. So better I wish for something different like MIX or PDC! PDC can be a little bit hard to arrange but a ReMIX will do.

What is the best thing that has happened since you have become an MVP?
Having 2k+ RSS followers! Honestly numbers are just numbers but I’m proud that people find my blog worth to follow. For me this proves the continuity and the quality of the content I create and makes me happy after spending 3 to 5 hours of work on just one blog post. And finally if you are looking for a more concrete answer the best thing that has happened to me is the TLC/ATE work I did at TechEd Europe! It was an awesome experience both in the mean of fighting against challenging questions and getting in touch with great MVPs within my competency. I really can’t forget the moments I lived there. Let’s describe it in another way; I had 4 hours daily duty but I never leaved the TLC booth during the conference! You imagine…

Who are your top 5 technical experts in your professional circle (from your country)?
“Top” in the mean of “order of remembrance” sorry for all other lovely MVP mates. I love you guys

• Oguz  Yagmur
• Burak Selim Senyurt
• Ugur Umutluoglu
• Kadir Camoglu
• Muammer Benzeş

Which was the last book you read?
It was a book about Adobe Air (No advertisement here!) The book title was “knowing the enemy”. At least it’s what I imagine!

If there was one place you could travel to, right now, where would it be and why?
Naa I’m just happy here. But if I had the opportunity to travel anytime anywhere I want, I guess I would travel all over MEA and host sessions about UX in every User Group and University Give me that!

How can one be a part of MVP Club? Any suggestions for them?
First of all learn the job and be the geek! Second spend all your free time to share what you learned! This is the trick, learn, share! And do this 24h/7days.

Any Message you want to give to the readers of MicrosoftFeed?
Get in touch! If you are a User Group in MEA or a User Group speaker just get in touch with me! Let’s do something incredible all together. Let’s unite our knowledge and share! Ok seriously just get in touch please
And for all others, subscribe to my RSS I will get in touch with you.

Your contact information?

• MVP Profile Link – https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Daron.Yondem
• Blog / Website – http://daron.yondem.com
• Twitter – http://www.twitter.com/daronyondem
• Facebook – http://www.facebook.com/daronyondem

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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

Menu
Traditional gulf meal called “Mandi” will be served during this meetup. For “Mandi“, generally you sit on the floor and eat it with your hands but there are also tables and utensils , If you are a vegetarian, please contact Pooya as the choices are limited there, it’s pretty much rice and lamb, chicken or fish.

Directions

• Cross Maktoum Bridge
• Stay in the 3rd lane from the right (go in the tunnel under the clock tower)
• Make the next U turn
• Make your 1st right, there is a large parking lot next to the mosque on your left
• Park here and walk back towards Clock tower (paid parking but free from 1-4pm), cross the street and you will see Tawasol on your right (before the next parking lot and Clock Tower)

Contact

• Mobile – +971 50 6531324
• Email – pooyad@microsoft.com

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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

The main purpose of launching this club is to use and motivate students thoughts and programming skills and for that this club is a local community that is going to be active in the whole Palestine not only the AAUJ.

Thanks Saed Shela for the pictures!

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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.

Thanks Mohamed Saleh for the pictures.

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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.

In GDC’09, more than 70 deep technical sessions have been delivered by more than 23 local and global top notch technical speakers. GDC has been covered by top local newspapers and by Al-Arabia TV (MBC) station. Most feedback that was received from many attendees agreed that 3 days for GDC’09 was not enough. GDC’09 included different delivery mechanisms including breakout sessions, interactive chalktalk sessions, as well as technology workshops. The Community Lounge and Expert Booth was one of the most popular visited areas in GDC’09. Many community leads, members and experts were available for the whole duration of GDC’09 event.

Thanks Microsoft Saudi for the pictures!

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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

http://www.virmansec.com/

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

http://www.devlifestyle.net/

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

EPDotnet

http://www.epdotnet.com/

East Province Dotnet Professionals (EP.NET) is the first community that was established few years back in Saudi. This community is specialized in development technologies as well as ITPro technologies as well.

• International Associations: INETA , CULMINIS
• Community Lead: Fauzan Khan (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=D9A47AC6-0B82-4A48-A2C1-99BB4C9CF7C8)

CodeBetter

http://www.codebetter.net/default.aspx

This is the newest Microsoft community that is specialized in application lifecycle management tools and that delves into deep technical discussions on Microsoft application platform (Biztalk, development environment, VSTS, application process customization and team formation.)

• Community Lead: Tariq Ali (https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile=6E8A71BE-36BB-44EE-9D4C-0A16B440934A)

XAMLLight

http://xamllight.com/

XAML Light is the local community in Saudi specialized around user experience technologies (Silverlight, Expression, application UI and design).

• International Associations: INETA , CULMINIS
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GP4Arabs

http://www.gp4arab.com/

One of the largest Great Plains communities in the Arab world with few thousands members. This community is specialized in business solutions based on Microsoft Great Plains and on all related infrastructure technologies

Thanks Ammar Abuthuraya for the list

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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.

Thanks Jerry for the pictures

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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

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