Meeting: Wed., July 2nd, 2008

When:    Wed., July 2nd, 2008

Where:   DMACC West Campus 
               5959 Grand Ave
               West Des Moines, IA 50266 Map

Agenda:  5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Pizza & Socializing
               6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Presentation
               7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Prizes

What is SharePoint and Why Should I Care?
Todd Klidnt 

Unless you're living under a rock, or using WebSphere, you've been hearing about SharePoint and how great it is. In this presentation we're going to take a brief look at exactly what SharePoint is and some of the amazing things it can do for you. After you and SharePoint have been formally introduced we'll look at some of the developer tools that are available for SharePoint, and other free, must have additions to your SharePoint arsenal.

Presenter Bio:

Todd Klindt is a SharePoint Consultant living in Ames Iowa. He's been using SharePoint since he saw it on the Office XP CD and wondered what it was. He is a Windows SharePoint Services MVP and has presented at a variety of conferences such as TechEd North America, TechEd EMEA and the Microsoft SharePoint Conference. In his massive free time he likes to hang out with his family.

Meeting: Wed., June 4th, 2008

When:    Wed., June 4th, 2008

Where:   DMACC West Campus 
               5959 Grand Ave
               West Des Moines, IA 50309

Agenda:  5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Pizza & Socializing
               6:00 PM - 6:20 PM - Topic Gathering
               6:20 PM - 7:30 PM - Open Space Discussion
               7:30 PM - 7:45 PM - Prizes

Open Space Discussion  

From http://www.co-intelligence.org/P-Openspace.html

The most basic principle is that everyone who comes to an Open Space conference must be passionate about the topic and willing to take some responsibility for creating things out of that passion.
Four other key principles are:

1. Whoever comes is the right people.
2. Whatever happens is the only thing that could have
3. Whenever it starts is the right time.
4. When it is over it is over.

Open Spaces function also applies the principle of The Law of Two Feet: "If you find yourself in a situation where you aren't learning or contributing, go somewhere else."

Meeting: Wed., May 7th, 2008

When:    Wed., May 7th, 2008

Where:   Two Rivers Marketing office 
               107 E 5th St
               West Des Moines, IA 50309

Agenda:  5:45 PM - 6:00 PM - Pizza & Socializing
               6:00 PM - 7:30 PM - Presentation
               7:30 PM - 8:00 PM - Prizes

Silverlight
Jeff Brand  Presenter Bio:

Jeff has been with Microsoft for almost 12 years now. He started with the company soon after the release of Windows 95. Now those were heady days. He has seen the long march of Windows 2000 and was right there for the browser wars. While at Microsoft, he has been a consultant, an ecommerce specialist, and an enterprise technology advisor. Prior to Microsoft, Jeff was in the Air Force stationed at Offutt AFB in Omaha, NE where he was Chief Network Engineer (his pre-developer days) for the USSTRATCOM LAN. Today, Jeff is a .NET Developer Evangelist for Microsoft's North Central District. He lives in Minneapolis and often travel to the surrounding states of Nebraska, Iowa, and the Dakotas. In his current role, he is responsible for working with developers and customers that are evaluating or using .NET and assisting in them in understanding and using Microsoft's developer platform.