I'm supporting a proposal to create a new Q&A website for anyone running or interested in running a user group or technical community to connect and discuss the business of running a user group or technical community..
It's built on the same software as stackoverflow.com, a hugely popular site where over seven million programmers help each other with difficult programming problems. On Stack Overflow the audience votes for the best answer, so the answer you want is usually right at the top, not on page five.
I'm hoping that a site for anyone running or interested in running a user group or technical community to connect and discuss the business of running a user group or technical community. would have the same kind of network effect and turn into an amazing resource.
The proposal process is going on here:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/24077/community?referrer=V_0YIWNES-TswlQtvIZIUg2
If you're interested in participating, go to that URL and click on the orange "Follow It!" button.
Thanks!
Community Leadership Town Hall - Tulsa
November 11th, 2010 – Jay Smith
In many towns and cities across the country the town hall is the center of the community. The town hall is where the local governments keep offices, serves as the main base for the Mayor, and is where citizens of the community come to work with the official representatives to share issues, ideas, and solutions that can make their community better.
The Community Leadership Town Hall brings this concept to community leaders in your area. The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.
Bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share to the Community Leadership Town Hall - Tulsa.
If you are a current or aspiring community leader please join us for the Tulsa TechFest pre-event on November 11th, 2010 from 7 – 10 PM.
Location:
OSU-Tulsa Room 140
700 N. Greenwood Ave
Tulsa, OK 74106
Time: 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp 2010
Connect | Learn | Teach
FREE 1-Day Developer Conference in Springdale, AR!
Saturday October 23rd, 2010
The Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp is a yearly regional developer and technology focused event that is focused on three things Connecting, Learning and Teaching.
Connect with your peers! Knowing who knows is almost as important as knowing. Attending local and regional conferences is a great way to interact and expand your circle of influence.
Learn, by attending topical sessions presented by national and local speakers can help you stay up to date on the mountain of new topics coming out each year.
Topics will include iPhone, Andriod, ASPNET MVC, Object Oriented Programming, Test Driven Development, Web Design, CSS, JQuery, Entity Framework, and Version Control.
Teach what you know, share your experiences with others. Teaching and presenting is also an awesome way to learn. By putting yourself out there and letting others hear what you have learned you gain incredible feedback and learn other approaches to the problem.
When and Where October 23, 2010 at the Tyson Corporate Headquarters located at 2210 W. Oaklawn Dr. Springdale, AR 72765.
Register online at http://nwacodecamp.com.
The Northwest Arkansas CodeCamp is organized by members of the Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group, Inc.. The Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to the promotion, education and adoption of Microsoft .NET Technologies. They strive to provide an environment for professionals to network in Northwest Arkansas and foster the free exchange of ideas and information.
They hold monthly meetings with presentations that allow you to keep up to date on the latest emerging .NET technologies as well as provide practical skills you can use immediately. To find out more about the Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group visit them online at http://nwadnug.org.
It is very exciting to see that Microsoft is stepping it up when it comes to helping developers give back to the community.
Scheduled for January 14-16, 2011, to coincide with the MLK National Holiday, the National Day of GiveCamp will be a single day where GiveCamp events will be run simultaneously in multiple cities all over the US.
This is a cause that is very close to my heart and I have been working very hard to help bring the GiveCamp event to Northwest Arkansas.
It is also very exciting to see that many of these events will be using the Give Camp Starter Site. This open source project hosted on codeplex has become a focus on mine in the recent months.
I look forward to seeing all the good that can happen on a single weekend and hope to get lots of feedback on what we can do in the next release of the starter site.
For those of you looking for assistance on getting the starter site up and running don’t hesitate to contact me. I will also be posting some more detailed blogs about how to do common things in the starter site to allow you to customize it to your needs.
Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp Brings Free Technology Solutions to Non-Profits during Weekend Event
August 22, 2010 -- Fayetteville, AR – Jay Smith, Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp Chairman, announced today that the Northwest Arkansas .Net user Group in Partnership with the University of Arkansas will be hosting the first annual Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp on January 14-16, 2011.
The Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp is a weekend-long event that brings together local technology professionals to providing non-profits with technical solutions and applications they might not otherwise been able to afford.
The Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp is one of many events of this type that are happening all over the country. This unique event allows technology professionals to use the skills they develop every day to provide applications and services that are in need by non-profits.
The Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp will be held in the University of Arkansas Union Ballroom and surrounding meeting rooms.
Charities and Non-Profits requesting help and volunteers willing to offer their time and skills can submit their application on-line at Northwest Arkansas GiveCamp website located at http://nwagivecamp.com.
The press is invited to the event opening to be held on January 14, 2011 at 00 PM where the selected non-profits will introduce themselves and meet their development teams for the first time.
The press is also invited to the event closing where teams will be giving a brief presentation showing the work they have accomplished for each non-profit.
Summary:
Date: January 14-16, 2011
Location: University of Arkansas Union Ballroom
About the Northwest Arkansas .Net User Group
The Northwest Arkansas .NET User Group is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is dedicated to the promotion, education and adoption of Microsoft .NET Technologies. We strive to provide an environment for professionals to network in Northwest Arkansas to foster the free exchange of ideas and information.
