Many of my colleagues and I lament the fact that while Atlanta has such an active software development community, our city of Macon and the surrounding area does not. So I decided to do something about it.

On Monday, 31 March 2008 at 7:30 PM we will hold the first meeting of the Macon .NET User Group.

There will be some pizza and softdrinks to snack on. 

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The meeting will be held at the Meeting room at the Mercer University Coffee Shop which is named the Bear Rock Cafe. The Bear Rock Cafe is inside the Univeristy Center. Below is a map of the Mercer Campus with annotations showing where to park and where we are meeting.

Everyone will be required to sign in at the University Center but they are expecting us so no one should have a problem getting inside.

Doug Turnure from Microsoft has volunteered to come down and get us started and give a presentation and several other Microsoft people have offered to help us from time to time.

Doug's presentation will be: A technical overview of Silverlight

Microsoft Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform, and cross-device plug-in for delivering the next generation of .NET based media experiences and rich interactive applications for the Web. In this talk, we will discuss how Silverlight is architected, and how designers and developers can collaborate more effectively using Expression and Visual Studio. We'll attempt to untangle some of the term/version confusion around the releases. Finally, we'll do some basic code demos to show both how the current release works, and the state of the latest beta.

I would like to thank Mercer for hosting our meetings. We look forward to seeing some of the students at the user group.

This is a great opportunity to meet some of the other software developers in Middle Georgia. Please pass this invitation on to any other software developers that you know.

I would also like to thank my employer, SPINEN for sponsoring the user group's web site and providing some snacks and food for the meetings.

In addition to the presentation, part of the agenda for this meeting will be a discussion of how often we should meet and future presentations. It might also be a good idea to bring a few business cards to exchange with some of the other attendees.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me using the Contact form on this blog. That goes right to my email.

Zack Moore
Senior Software Developer
SPINEN