Archive for July, 2010

INETA Community Champion Award

July 16th, 2010

Last week I was excited (and very surprised) to find out that I was awarded the INETA Community Champion Award for Q2 2010. During the last year I have found a great deal of pleasure and enjoyment by getting more involved in the technical community. Most of my involvement came from being new to Phoenix, wanting to meet new people and just wanting to help so the community keeps growing.

Here is the description for the award from the INETA site:

“The INETA Community Champion Award is an annual award given to those who give to the developer community. It is awarded on a quarterly basis and lasts for twelve months. Members record their numerous contributions to the community. At the end of each quarter the top contributors will be selected to receive the INETA Community Champion Award.”

So here’s to starting my second year in the Phoenix area and helping to build our community stronger with each day. Thank you very much for the recognition (even though it is tough for me to think of myself as a champion)!

I hope that I can continue to provide value to the community and am excited to see what we do in the future.

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SEVDNUG June Social Mixer – Bowling for the Family

July 1st, 2010

On June 22nd we held another Social Mixer for SEVDNUG (Southeast Valley .NET User Group), and had a great time! The event was hosted at the AMF McRay Lanes SEVDNUGbowlingin Chandler. The goal of these Social Mixers is to allow members of our local tech community to come together and communicate outside the typical monthly meetings which are predominantly presentation-based.

During the past year, the group has organized several of these events, and they have been quite a success in allowing our members to talk freely, enjoy a evening together, and get to know each other better. Personally, I enjoy the fact that several of these mixers have been hosted at locations that allow our members to bring their families along for a good time. Not only does this help foster great conversations, but friendships and long lasting networking contacts are also made.

These events would not be possible with out the support of our sponsors and our local tech community! We would like to thank COMSYS for sponsoring and participating in this particular event

To see more of our bowling adventures,  check out these pictures taken by Joseph Guadagno.

For more information on future events please watch the SEVDNUG usergroup website and follow us on Twitter. Join us this month on July 22nd for our next SEVDNUG meeting, which will feature a presentation on Easing ASP.NET Deployment with Visual Studio 2010 and Web Deployment.

We look forward to seeing you at our next meeting!

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