Last week's C# UG year end wrap up
Looks like I forgot to blog my impressions of last week's C# User Group's 2005 year end wrap-up.
The meeting began with a presentation on the Windows Communication Foundation (which used to be called Indigo) by Luthor Stanton. Luthor gave us a sort of WCF 101 which seemed well received by the audience of about 32 people
Getting down to the business of the future of the group, the audience reaffirmed the group's committment to advanced programming topics. In fact, the group may be straying away from C# language technologies and focusing more on advanced topics which are language agnostic (all presentations require C# code in a nod to the group's name). There is also talk of one or more UG projects coming up. The first project will be to replace the website (which is almost entirely static content that has to be hand modified) with a real, working ASP.Net application. There needs to be some work done on the mailing list as well.
The general concensus of the group was that as long as we stuck with advanced topics and kept the caliber of the presentations as high as they typically have been, there might not be much that can be changed. Some people voiced opinions that they'd like to let the main presenter have more time with their presentations, but Keith correctly pointed out that when a presenter starts earlier than 7pm, people get upset about arriving late. That is why we generally have 2 presentations, a short one first, followed by an hour and a half long presentation at 7.
Keith is always looking for topic ideas and presenters, so please send him an e-mail if you're interested: http://www.atlantacsharp.org
-- Matt Ranlett
PS - I almost forgot to thank Keith here. Keith took over the group this year in the late spring and was instrumental in growing the group from an average attendance of 5 people to an average attendance of 30 people. Keith single-handedly wrangles all of the details of each meeting, needing almost no help at all from Brendon and myself or even Doug Turnure. Keith's done a great job turning this group around and making it into a training experience that dedicated developers truely shouldn't miss. Congrats Keith!