1. Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group November 16, 2011
2. 2011 Executive Officers President David Giard Vice-President
Kent Fehribach Treasurer Shelly Noll Secretary Gerhard Weiss
3. Volunteers Brian Korzynski Matt Ruma Onorio Catenacci Dave
Kroondyk Jamie Altizer Sukhdev S Tur Hilary Weaver Randy Pagels,
Microsoft guy Jim Priore, Cinematographer
17. Discounts for our members Manning www.Manning.com 36% off
Enter discount code UG367 MSDN Magazine 20% off subscription 1 Year
(12 issues) $35.00 $28.00 2 year (24 issues) $60.00 $48.00
(866)2933194 Promo code: A0EUG1 CODE Magazine 33% off subscription
1 Year (6 issues) $29.99 $19.99
www.codemag.com/subscribe/migang
18. INETA Offers Pluralsight Free Guest Pass into the
Pluralsight On-Demand! Library tinyurl.com/PSGuestPass Wrox/Wiley
40% off select Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0 books to user group
members through 6/30. See the list at ineta.org/offers U Use promo
code WVS10 OReilly 50% off ebook purchases from OReilly for a
limited time 40% off print book purchases for user group members
Use discount code DSUG when ordering online oreilly.com/store
Windows Azure Free One-Month Pass azurepassusa.cloudapp.net
19. Supporting Members Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member
Since Jamie Altizer 2/8/2011 2/8/2011 Ondrej Balas 6/15/2011
6/15/2011 Mark Barkey 3/16/2011 9/15/2004 Stanislav Bashtavenko
2/16/2011 2/16/2011 Brittan Benedetto 6/18/2011 6/18/2011 DJ Bodnar
4/20/2011 4/20/2011 Kelly Brownsberger 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Onorio
Catenacci 9/21/2011 11/18/2009 Jim Donahue 7/11/2011 12/16/2008
Russel Drown 9/13/2011 4/21/2010 Kent Fehribach 1/1/2011 11/19/2008
Cyndi Flaugher 2/14/2011 2/14/2011 David Giard 11/17/2010
11/19/2008 Rob Gibbens 8/17/2011 8/17/2011 Robert Griffiths
6/22/2011 6/22/2011 Edward Hanlon 6/15/2011 6/15/2011 Doug Hawes
11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Jim Heruben 9/21/2011 8/20/2003
20. Supporting Members Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member
Since Richard Irwin 1/17/2011 5/21/2003 Chet Kloss 06/15/2011
06/15/2011 Bruce Kohler 9/21/2011 9/21/2011 Brian Korzynski
10/20/2010 10/20/2010 Jelard Macalino 8/15/2011 8/15/2011 Bhupinder
Mavi 10/1/2011 10/1/2011 Marc McVey 9/21/2011 6/17/2009 Don Miller
8/17/2011 8/17/2011 Paul Mrozowski 8/25/2011 11/18/2009 Lena
Nilsson 7/20/2011 7/20/2011 Chris Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Godfrey Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Shelly Noll 1/19/2011 4/21/2010
Tim OConnell 4/17/2011 5/16/2007 Ephraim Okoye 4/20/2011 11/16/2005
David Parshan 3/16/2011 3/16/2011 Jeff Povlov 1/19/2011 1/19/2011
Robert Powers 8/17/2011 1/20/2009 John Ptasznik 8/17/2011
8/17/2011
21. Supporting Members Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member
Since Mandar Purekar 3/16/2011 3/16/2011 Matt Ruma 11/17/2010
11/17/2010 Harminder Sandhu 9/21/2011 9/21/2011 Rick Schummer
11/17/2010 11/17/2010 Patrick Steele 11/17/2010 11/17/2004 Lindell
Stephens 7/20/2011 11/18/2009 Wasay Syed 7/20/2011 7/20/2011 Jeff
Thompson 10/1/2011 10/20/2010 Sukhdev Tur 11/5/2011 11/5/2011 R.T.
Vega 4/21/2011 1/18/2006 Hilary Weaver 3/16/2011 3/16/2011 Gerhard
Weiss 8/17/2011 3/19/2008 Y. K. Yeung 7/20/2011 6/17/2009 Susan
Yount 2/16/2011 2/16/2011
22. 2011 GANG Goals Cultivate Ownership In Group Continue to
Attract High-Quality Speakers Support and Connect with other Area
User Groups Average 60 attendees per meeting Increase supporting
membership by 15% Increase Monetary Sponsorship by 10% Make it an
event
23. 2011 GANG GoalsCultivate Ownership In Group More volunteers
than ever New officer candidates Codeslingers moved to Epitec
DevLunch Social hour More Lightning Talks 625 on Mailing List 244
Twitter followers (+84%) 276 LinkedIn Members (+71%)
24. 2011 GANG GoalsContinue to Attract High-Quality Speakers
Gary Short Michael Eaton Mike Amundsen Charles Stacy Harris Gus
Issa Jennifer Marsman Brian Prince Steve Bohlen K Scott Allen
Richard Campbell Leon Gersing Josh Holmes, Darrell Hawley Bill
Wagner Richard Hale Shaw Godfrey Nolan Glenn Block
25. 2011 GANG GoalsSupport and Connect with other Area User
Groups Incubator for Special Interest Groups Joint meeting with
Detroit Cloud Computing Group (3/2011) Joint meeting with AADND
(1/2012) Officers attended ~50 user group meetings Speaker tours (G
Short, M Amundsen, S Bohlen, R Campbell)
26. 2011 GANG GoalsAverage 60 attendees per meeting Average
attendance = 81 120 100 80 60 40 20 0
27. 2011 GANG GoalsIncrease supporting membership by 15%
November 2010: 23 supporting members November 2011: 53 supporting
members 130% increase!
28. 2011 GANG GoalsIncrease Monetary Sponsorship by 10%
Received $10,000 cash from sponsors! No pizza in 2011! Mega-SWAG
End-of-year Cash Reserve up 100% Speaker sponsorships by JetBrains,
ComponentOne, DevExpress, & Telerik
29. 2011 GANG GoalsMake it an event Big-name speakers GANG10
Videos Trivia Food Drive Membership Drive: XBox 360 giveaway Video
recordings Greeters
30. Any First-Time Attendees?
31. Upcoming GANG MeetingsDate Speaker TopicDec No December
meetingJan 18 TBDFeb 15 Sarah Dutkiewicz Intro to
PowerShell/Extending PowerShellMar 21 TBDApr 18 Mike Wood AzureMay
16 Steve Smith Common Design Patterns
32. Holiday Party Copper Canyon Brewery Thursday December 8 at
7PM Free Appetizers Door Prizes Register at
http://gangholiday.eventbrite.com
33. Other User GroupsGroup Date LinkGreater Lansing .Net UG 3rd
Thu glugnet.orgSilverlight UG 3rd Thu
tinyurl.com/MiSilverlightGreater Detroit Cloud Computing UG 2nd Mon
tinyurl.com/DetroitCloudSharePoint User Group 2nd Tue
tinyurl.com/SeMiSpAnn Arbor .Net Developers 2nd Wed aadnd.orgFlint
.Net UG 2nd Thu glugnet.orgSE Michigan SQL Server UG 2nd Thu
semssug.sqlpass.orgSE Michigan Powershell Club 3rd Tue
MichiganPowershell.comNW Ohio .Net UG 3rd Tue NwNug.comWest
Michigan .Net UG 4th Wed WmDotNet.org
34. Upcoming EventsWhat Where When LinkLivonia Nerd Lunch
Aubrees Pizzeria Nov 17 tinyurl.com/LivoniaNerds Livonia, MICentral
Ohio DODN Columbus, OH Dec 10 cododn.wordpress.com/CodeMash
Sandusky, OH Jan 11-13 codemash.org
35. Special Interest Groups (SIG) Functional Programming (2nd
Tuesday at Epitec) .NET Micro Framework Next Year
36. Motor City Codeslingers Pair Coding, Idea Exchange, Tech
Book Exchange Wed Dec 7 6:00-9PM Epitec Offices, 24800 Denso Dr.
Suite 150 Southfield, MI 48033 TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers
[email protected]
37. DevLunch Come meet up with other Developers in the area to
socialize and network over lunch. There will also be a raffle which
normally involves Gift Cards (to help the winner pay for their
meal), Software and Shirts. Wed Dec 14, 12-1PM (2nd Wed of each
month) TGI Fridays 591 W Big Beaver Rd Troy MI 48084 www.migang.org
[email protected]
38. CafePress.com/MiGang
39. Job Announcements Developers Looking for Work Local Job
Openings
40. Next Month TBD January 18, 2011
41. Social Hour Immediately following this meeting Not a
sponsored event! Maps are located on the counter in back of the
room.Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant 27522 Northwestern
Hwy
42. Fabulous Prizes!Few things in life are more enjoyablethan
giving away stuff that someone elsepaid for -David Giard, GANG
President