It is a busy time in Wellington .NET User Group land.

Nine months ago I switched us over to fortnightly user group meetings. While it's sometimes a struggle to find speakers, thanks to the great support of the speakers and the Wellington community, we're able to entertain, teach and enlighten every 14 days.

I thought a round-up of our activity over the past 12 months would be interesting:

21/05/2008 - Subversion and Cruise Control - Sky Sigal

07/05/2008 - Visual Studio certification & SQL Server Reporting Services - James Hippolite

16/04/2008 - There's more to life than C# and VB.NET - Kirk Jackson

02/04/2008 - Mocking 101 - Owen Evans

19/03/2008 - Silverlight 2.0 - James Newton King

05/03/2008 - 2008 Lightning Strike! - Various Presenters

13/02/2008 - 2008 Summer Road Trip - Jeremy Boyd, Chris Auld, Kirk Jackson

30/01/2008 - ASP.NET MVC framework - John-Daniel Trask

05/12/2007 - Introduction to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - Ivan Towlson

21/11/2007 - Dynamic Runtime & Languages - What's it all about? - Ivan Porto Carrero

07/11/2007 - SQL Server 2008 for Developers - Jeremy Boyd

03/10/2007 - A lap around Visual Studio 2008 - Darryl Burling

19/09/2007 - ASP.NET Futures: Dynamic Data Controls - Andrew Tokeley

06/09/2007 - Virtual Earth – Overview on Spatial Development - Matti Seikkula

01/08/2007 - Developing with Windows SharePoint Services v3.0 - Zac Smith

04/07/2007 - C# vs VB.NET - continuing the epic battle - Philip Cox and Kirk Jackson

06/06/2007 - Well MIXed! - Chris Auld

As well as organising 16 of those talks and 20 speakers to present, in the past 12 months I also have:

• Presented a PowerShell presentation at TechEd NZ in August 2007
• Presented on C# 3.0 features at a corporate user group
• Given a presentation for ELCM351 at Victoria University on "Future Directions in Web Development" (more on this later)
• Been the treasurer of the NZ .NET User Group Incorporated Society, and written about 100 cheques for beer and pizza, as well as attending committee meetings and procrastinating about budgets
• Organised the "Dev Code Camp 2007" on Sunday 12 August 2007 in Auckland, just before TechEd. It was a struggle finding speakers, organising catering and sponsorship, and MC'ing the day. Probably the hardest event I've done so far... Watch out for another one this year :)
• Presented on C# 3.0 at the Dev Code Camp as well.
  

It has been great to have the support of the speakers listed above from the Wellington community, and even greater that 8 of them spoke for the first time at the user group this year.

I'm always on the lookout for new speakers. If you're interested, drop me a line!

(I'm looking for a speaker for Wed 4 June by the way :)

Cheers,

Kirk