My friend and teammate John Weston (a.k.a. @technetguy) just told me about a new SharePoint user group in OKC.
Their first meeting is Thursday, March 11th at the Dell facility in OKC:
3501 SW 15th Bldg A, Hudson Hall Oklahoma City, OK 73108
Eric Shupps, the SharePoint Cowboy, will be presenting at this first meeting, giving an overview of MOSS 2010. For more information see the OKC SharePoint User Group website (coming soon!).
I just heard about a FREE SQL Server 2008 Certification Boot Camp coming to OKC. Full details are at the registration site, but here’s a teaser:
Course: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Certification Boot Camp 70-433 (31.5 hours)
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Session Dates: Monday, February, 8th, Tuesday, February 9th, Wednesday, February 10th, Monday, February 15th, Tuesday, February 16th, Wednesday, February 17th, Monday, February 22nd, Tuesday, February 23rd, and Wednesday, February 24th
Given the expertise and time commitment being provided by Michael Hotek for free, we ask that all registrants be able to attend at least 6 of the 9 sessions of this course.
Location: 1100 N Lindsay, Service Center Bldg, Room SCB-111, Oklahoma City, OK 73104. You can see the campus map and look for Service Center Bldg by going to this link (http://www.ouhsc.edu/about/findus.asp). Surrounding buildings are the Dean McGee Eye institute and the Oklahoma City Clinic.
The primary author and primary instructor of this course, Michael Hotek, brings about 2 decades of SQL Server experience in some of the largest and most complicated environments in the world. Mike is an accomplished speaker and trainer having delivered hundreds training sessions across dozens of training events spanning a decade or more with thousands of people having attended training from him.
Ok gang – it’s almost November 6, and you know that that means… it’s time for Tulsa TechFest! TTF is our annual tech conference featuring 13 tracks and over 60 sessions of high-quality, expert contributed content. I’m really excited about this year’s speaker line-up! Here are just some of the speaker highlights you can look forward to when you attend:
Joe Fletcher – UX Lead for Microsoft Surface, talking about Touch Computing
Jennifer Marsman – DE from Ann Arbor, talking about Azure, WF and Win7 Multi-touch
Mike Benkovich – DE from Minneapolis, talking about Expression Blend, XAML and LINQ
Chris Patterson – C# MVP from Tulsa, talking about Message-driven Architecture
Cory Smith – Windows Client MVP from Fort Worth, talking about Click Once deployments
Jay Smith – ASP.NET MVP from Fayetteville, AR, talking about Visual Studio 2010 and Agile Software Development
Eric Shupps – SharePoint MVP from Fort Worth, talking about SharePoint and Visual Studio 2010
Rob Vettor – ASP.NET MVP from Dallas , talking about ADO.NET Data Services
Todd Anglin – ASP.NET MVP and Chief Evangelist for Telerik from Houston, talking about Silverlight 3 and ASP.NET MVC
Robert Boedingheimer – C# MVP talking about ASP.NET 4.0 and jQuery with Visual Studio 2010
Chris Koenig – Developer Evangelist from Microsoft, talking about C# 4.0, Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Service Bus
As you can see, there are a LOT of very experienced speakers delivering some AWESOME sessions. For speakers of this quality, you’d normally have to spend several hundred dollars at a paid conference, or attend a bazillion user group meetings all over the country. Luckily for you, David Walker has brought all this talent together into one FREE event!
When is this event and how do I register, you’re asking? Here’s all the important info you’ll need to share with your boss/manager/spouse/etc to get the day off to come out to Tulsa:
Make sure you head over to http://tulsatechfest.com and register today. Even though the event is free, we would like to get an accurate count of attendees so that we can adequately estimate the amount of food and drink to get.
The session list for Tulsa TechFest 2009 have been posted to the event website. I’ve got 2 sessions, one on cloud (that I’m not sure what I’ll be presenting on yet – any suggestions?) and one on C# 4.0 / VS2010.
Tulsa TechFest is one of the premier cross-platform, cross-discipline conferences in South Central. Over the past 2 years, we’ve hit over 1000 attendees per event, and are looking to really make a big splash again this year. Following the trend from last year, registration will be “two cans or two bucks”. Food collected will be donated to the Community FoodBank of Eastern Oklahoma, and all money will be donated to the Family & Children’s Services.
You can keep up with what’s going on with Tulsa TechFest by following @TulsaTechFest on Twitter, or subscribing to newsletter-request@tulsatechfest.com.
Here ye here ye – Tulsa TechFest is coming, and you should be there! Jam packed with tons of sessions across multiple tracks, Tulsa TechFest is the premier ABSOLUTELY FREE community-led developer event in South Central. Tracks are in the planning stages, but you can count on seeing sessions on development, infrastructure, systems management, project management and more! I’ve submitted a couple of topics, as have many of my teammates, so I’m sure it will once again be an awesome experience!
As soon as the speakers are selected and the sessions announced, I’ll post a followu.p with all the latest information. If you want to help promote Tulsa TechFest, you can include this graphic on your blog or website and link back to http://tulsatechfest.com
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