Session 0 Changes and Vista Compatibility for Services running as Interactive with Desktop

While at TechEd 2006, I caught up with some of the folks who are innovating Community principles and implementation in the UK, from Girly Geek to Next Generation User Group. Here we talk about community, why it matters, what is needed to grow community, etc. The interviewees are also Niners. Tune in and meet some passionate members of the UK developer community who are among those who are taking Community to the next level.
eagle wrote:So Charles has to travel to Spain to talk to people from the UK about community when he could have attended a DotNetUsers meeting in Seattle.
Where were you when the Seattle dotnet community needed you Charles?
Two users groups that I regularly attended in the Dallas area have ceased to meet.
The usual problem is finding people who have the time to lead the group and present material.
They were replaced by other user groups in the area.
Many people simply do not have the time, interest and or talent to make presentations and be active as a user group leader.
Also, there is a fairly high burn-out rate with user group leadership.
At one time in another career, I was very active for over a decade in particiating, presenting and leading professional committees.
I too burned-out and am no longer interested in such a role.
Let people do what they want and are interested in doing.
Eagle, please get off of Charles' case.
Thanks.
hey great to see some UK guys on c9!
I met Sarah some time back at a Girl Geek Dinner but I must admit I have been out of the community scene for a while. Time to get involved I think!
That said; I may be at the Sharepoint user group shindig in London later
Ion Todirel wrote:so who is the girl in the video?
richy wrote:Eagle is certainly bitter about something
Hi, On the subject of user groups i thought i'd just drop in the Next Generation User Group can be found at
http://www.nxtgenug.net/">http://www.nxtgenug.net
and our podcasts at
http://www.nxtgenug.net/podcasts.aspx">http://www.nxtgenug.net/podcasts.aspx
An_Angel wrote:die-Sel: Thanks... I think... the vid is really bad at picking up the good side of me. Charles was a little too close with the cameraMore info on the london girl geek dinners can be found below and Microsoft did a good virtual side video on the events too which can be found here: http://www.mseventseurope.com/Teched/06/Pre/Live/VideoDev5.aspx
Ion: Who am I... well for that you will have to go and have a look on my mobility blog here: http://geekswithblogs.net/waterbaby and here http://www.londongirlgeekdinners.co.uk and here http://www.girlygeekdom.blogspot.com and from that you should get which community I am looking after. I also actively participate in Mobile Mondays and a number of the London groups, but not always just the Microsoft ones.
I guess you could say I am just another girl geek... with a fixation on mobile devices and tech gadgets.