These are slides from Tomislav Bronzin's presentation at DevReach in Sofia, Bulgaria: The International .NET Association (INETA) provides structured, peer-based organizational, educational, and promotional support to the growing worldwide community of Microsoft® .NET user groups. Our mission is to offer assistance and resource to community groups. INETA welcomes developers, architects, project managers and IT professionals. Members can be user groups or special interest groups. This session will give an overview what INETA is and how you can join to this international club!

1. INETA: Voice of the .NET Community! Tomislav Bronzin Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Regional Director INETA Vice President Community Activities

2. About Tomislav Bronzin INETAEurope Vice President Community Activities http://europe.ineta.org Leader of Microsoft Community in Croatia Software Architect – CITUS d.o.o. Consultant and trainer on .NET migration and design Recent projects: Croatian Forests, Smarthome, Protect@Work, Competence Manager Speaker:TechEd Europe, WinDays, Sinergija, NT Konferenca, Vizija, DevDays Contact at tomislav.bronzin@ineta-europe.org

3. What are User Groups? Wesee User Groups (UG’s): As central place for meeting people that have similar interests, goals and concerns Sometimespeople live in the same geographical area OtherUG’s distributed throughout the world SomeUG’s are devoted to a particular technology, other to one product of specific company sometimes called “special interest group” http://whatis.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid9_gci881409,00.html

4. How to start User Group? Frequent question No one unique answer Everyone of you have his/her answer Ouris: put a lot of effort, be persistent and find a peoplethat will help you! Call for you to get involved: Share your experience with Community Publish your best practices/checklists Help UG to get attention/awareness of local Microsoft Office Tell them to join global UG organizations like INETA

5. How Microsoft MVP’s can help? Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals Already commiting their knowledge, time and experience to the Community! MVP’s are: Speakers Trainers Community influencers Authoriteies in applying technology Have organization skils

6. INETA Europe International .NET Association http://europe.ineta.org

7. Value Proposition Audience in Europe Quality and Diversity of Reach Geographical / Technology areas / Credibility October 2009 384User Groups / ~130.640 developers November2008 363User Groups / ~120.000 developers January 2008 291User Groups / ~79.000 developers June 2006 222 User Groups / ~60.000 developers

8. INETA Europe Goals Community satisfaction Delivering value to Community Effective volunteer contribution Direct voice from Community to Microsoft Enhance organization Increase WW interaction

9. INETA Europe Board Damir Tomicic, President Tomislav Bronzin, VP Community Activities André Obelink, VP Speakers Bureau Sander Gerz, VP Technology Jose Luis Latorre Millas, VP Sponsorship & Events Miquel Lopez, VP Marketing Dobriša Adamec, VP Membership Mathias Raacke, VP Academic Relations Christian Nagel, VP Finance http://europe.ineta.org

11. BranimirGiurov, Bulgaria

12. Bernard Ktic, Croatia

13. George Capnias, Greece

14. MarekLints, Estonia

15. Daniel Joskovski, FYR Macedonia

16. AurelianPopa, Romania

17. Ivan Pavlovic, Serbia

18. Miha Markic, Slovenia

19. ….

20. FYR Macedonia

21. Malta

22. Poland

23. Romania

24. Russia

25. Serbia

26. Slovakia

27. Slovenia

28. Ukraine

29. Bosnia & Herzegovina

30. Bulgaria

31. Croatia

32. Czech Republic

33. Estonia

34. Grecee

35. Hungary

37. Speakers Bureau User Group events - heart of community Speakers are very important INETA provide the UG’swith best (preferable local) He/she is transmitting his/her enthusiasm and knowledge to the attendees Opportunity: Help to create local Speakers Bureau Nominate speakers for global Speakers Bureau that are willing to speak for User Groups Contact: andre.obelink@ineta-europe.org

38. Community Activities - summary TechEd Developers (November) Community CodeCamps Technology Contests (EU Silverlight Competition) INETA Europe Newsletter Community Launch: Visual Studio Windows Server SQL Server Contact: tomislav.bronzin@ineta-europe.org

39. Community CodeCamps By and For the Developer Community Always Free Community Developed Material No Fluff only Code Community Ownership Never occur during work hours

40. Calendar ofCodeCamps INETA UG’s are organizing CodeCamps in: FYR Macedonia, June 09, http://tinyurl.com/pqkymx Croatia, June 09, http://kulendayz.mscommunity.net Poland, October 09, http://codecamp.pl/en/Homepage.aspx Spain, October 09 Romania , October 09 Serbia, October 09

41. Technology Contests On national (country) and regional level Example: Vista Gadget, WPF, Silverlight ANNOUNCEMENT: 1. phase - on Country level Country Leaders – appoint people that will execute Need to find Sponsors / INETA can help but they should Use of local resources/Microsoft Office 2. phase – on European level Executed by volunteers and managed by INETA Europe Board Contact: JoseLuis.Latorre@ineta-europe.org

42. TechEd Europe (November) INETA will have Booth in Community Area BOF Speaker Idol Contest INETA supports For new speakers! English only Contestant are required to record presentation and send it to jury / get elected / win prizes and recognition Call for action: Mentor and encourage people from your Community to apply and compete – valuable local resource!

43. CALL FOR ACTION Help start User Group where is needed Help them join global organization like INETA or Culminus INETA Contact: dobrisa.adamec@ineta-europe.org Nominate others (or yourself) for : INETA Country Leader (direct contact with Board) INETA Volunteer Reference: Interviewwith INETA VP’s: What INETA is? http://europe.ineta.org/interview/default.html

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