Part of the Atlanta .NET Regular Guys mission is to get more community activity in Atlanta.  We have been working on spreading the word about user groups and trying to get more people involved.  In fact, There is a strong base of people that always show up to the user groups, but there is something missing when it comes to the expert community in Atlanta.  By expert community I mean the people that are well known that live in Atlanta and the MVPs of Atlanta.  The problem is that these people are usually pretty busy and we don’t have any money to offer them to bring them out.  What I have come up with, and what I will call the Atlanta RockStars posts (better name pending), is as follows. Matt and I take a person out to dinner who is well versed in .NET or a current Microsoft technology and talk to them about what they are working on and then post what we find out from the person on our blog.  This way there will be an entire section about people you may want to know more about or people whose blog you read.  Actually you may not even know how many great people we have in Atlanta and this will be a way to find out about them.  It will also hopefully give the well known members of the community a chance to hear about community activities from the Regular Guys and we might even be able to take questions from regular joe’s like yourself along to ask them.  Really what I am looking for right now is a name to give the idea and any further ideas people have.  The two names I came up with are Atlanta RockStars or Atlanta RockStar Lounge.  Give me your ideas for names that you think of.  We will probably start out asking MVPs that are willing to pay for their own dinner first or something to doesn’t cost me too much.  Maybe we can talk Paul Wilson or Mark Dunn into giving us the honor of the first trial run.

— Brendon Schwartz