Microsoft Developer Show #06 – User Groups R Us!
After a few glitches here and there, the first show is all recorded and where possible the bumps have been removed. I this show I spend some time talking with Athena Pawlowski (dotNET solutions) and Adam Cogan (SSW) about User Groups. Having helped run the Perth .NET Community of Practice for a number of years I understand some of the difficulties of running meetings every month, trying to attract attendees and getting volunteers to present. Hopefully this show will give you an insight into why user groups are one of the best forms of developer resources available!
And the show goes a little bit like this….[Listen to the Podcast]
[Opening music - big thanks to the guys of Minder for the use of their track Chess which can be sampled at TripleJ]
00:27 – TechEd 2006 and the community driven Dev’Garten
00:42 – Canberra .Net User Group run by dotNET solutions
05:44 – Sydney .Net User Group run by SSW
08:14 – Sydney Deep .Net User Group run by Dan Green and Nick Wienholt
08:44 – Perth .Net Community of Practice
09:29 – Adelaide .Net User Group
09:44 – Victorian .Net Dev SIG
09:59 – Wellington .Net User Group run by Kirk Jackson
14:49 – Sponsorship by UnisysWest and Change Corporation
16:24 – Adam’s session on “10 best ways to ….”
17:54 – Charles “Chuck” Sterling
18:24 – Tatham Oddie or was it Ken Schaefer
20:44 – User group membership
23:14 – Victoria .NET, Canberra .NET
24:44 – .NET consulting companies – Readify and dotNET solutions
27:44 – NZ User Group consortium
28:00 – Australian .NET user groups
30:14 – Darryl Burling – DPE team here in Wellington
31:44 – Flash newsletter – a great source of Microsoft news
32:14 – MSDN Connection – the program that was never to be
34:14 – TechEd and the future of community activities
40:34 – Craig Bailey talks up the issues with paying money for developer events
42:34 – Adam suggests UNSW as a cheaper venue for TechEd
Listen to the show HERE
September 19th, 2006 at 10:55 am
Very cool – I’m glad this shwo is alive again. Well done :)
Just a constructive thought: Most of the show sounded great, except for adam. Not adam himself, but the quality of his audio. It was so bad it was really hard to listen to when he was tlaking – to the point that if it wasnt’ for the fact that I wanted to listen to the rest of the show, I would have switched off. Crappy quality makes for not a fun experience :(
Other than that, great work!
September 19th, 2006 at 11:02 am
[...] Nick Randolph has taken over hosting TPN’s Microsoft Developer podcast. In his first episode, he’s talking with a bunch of experienced user group co-ordinators about the different .Net user groups across Australia and New Zealand. Welcome to TPN Nick! [...]
September 19th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
excellent show!
welcome back
September 19th, 2006 at 5:02 pm
[...] I stumbled on this podcast from Australia tonight that discusses the state of User Groups there and in New Zealand. It’s a pretty good podcast, but it’s a shame that the audio for Adam Cogan is sketchy at best. Filed Under: User Group [...]
September 19th, 2006 at 5:20 pm
[...] The Microsoft Developer PodCast Show is back on the air and hosted by Nick Randolph Way to go Nick!! See http://msdev.thepodcastnetwork.com/ Microsoft Developer Show #06 – User Groups R Us! September 19th, 2006 After a few glitches here and there, the first show is all recorded and where possible the bumps have been removed. I this show I spend some time talking with Athena Pawlowski (dotNET solutions) and Adam Cogan (SSW) about User Groups. Having helped run the Perth .NET Community of Practice for a number of years I understand some of the difficulties of running meetings every month, trying to attract attendees and getting volunteers to present. Hopefully this show will give you an insight into why user groups are one of the best forms of developer resources available! Cheers, Dave Published Tuesday, September 19, 2006 6:14 PM by dglover Filed Under: Community [...]
September 20th, 2006 at 7:33 am
Must apologise for the poor audio quality on this show. Unfortunately Adam’s microphone was playing up and despite trying to clean up the audio as much as possible it is still a bit flakey. I hope it won’t stop people tuning in for the next show where the audio should be a lot better!
October 17th, 2006 at 4:03 pm
things are different since the last time i’ve been here, nice work. i’ll have to stop by more often.