Northeast User/Community Group Leader Summit 2009
Hosted by O'Reilly Media and Microsoft
May 2, 2009
Doors open: 10:30 a.m.
Microsoft New England Research and Development Center (NERD)
One Memorial Drive in Cambridge, MA
Kendall Square, Red Line T stop
Directions: http://www.microsoftcambridge.com/About/Directions/tabid/89/Default.aspx
RSVP here: http://neugsummit.eventbrite.com/
Get the discussion started on this Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/NE-UG-leader-summit
Join us on Saturday, May 2 for a special Northeast community/user group leader summit. Together we can help each other by sharing our experiences of running a user group.
We will be focusing on the mechanics of running a group, not the technical content, so pretty much anything goes. Proposed topics include:
- Building community
- Finding relevant meeting topics in today's economy
- Attracting and keeping members
- Using social media and other tools to get the word out
- Working with vendors
- Collaborating on group events
We'll have a few set sessions too help get things started but then the rest will be decided by you and your peers in typical Unconference-fashion. We've invited a few community experts to; stay tuned for the confirmed list
This is a free (as in beer) event, and we'll provde some snacks and beverages throughout the day. The event will run from 11AM-5:30PM; Reception following; doors open at 10:30.
This event is for technology-based user and community groups in the Northeast.
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Comments (2)
mdelamaza@drc.com said
at 10:46 am on Apr 8, 2009
I have an email from Jim O'Neil of Microsoft which reads, in part: "We've also invited other industry notables such as Sun, Google, Adobe, Red Hat, SourceForge, Wiley, Wrox, Safari Books Online, Addison-Wesley, PeachPit, Pragmatic Programmers, Microsoft Press, No Starch Press, SitePoint, Apress."
(Comment added by Michael de la Maza, the Paris Hilton of F#)
Al Sherman said
at 4:30 pm on Apr 30, 2009
I'd like to call attention to the The Boston-area User Group Calendar
We post announcements of all user group events that we can find and verify, and have done so for 11 years.
Check us out at http://www.bugc.org
Please publicise our service and help us by submitting notifications of your meetings.
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