INETA APAC Newsletter August 2007

About INETA
INETA is the next evolution in user group communities—a non-profit, independent organization, chartered with supporting all user groups interested in the Microsoft .Net platform.

INETA is run by a Board of user group leaders, elected by their peers, and supported by Microsoft Corporation and other sponsors.

Happenings Around INETA Asia Pacific (APAC)

Happenings around Asia Pacific
We've started the new financial year with a bang. In July, we mentioned about UG Led events, and we've had two groups who've already put in requests. Our next UG kit with custom UG logo's has begun printing and some of you should start receiving them during the last week of August, while a larger part of the groups will be receiving it during the month of September. Do let us know your thoughts on what you'd like to see in the next UG kit by dropping us an email.

Call for Volunteers
We're indebted to our existing volunteers who have helped support our mission. We encourage more leaders out there to contribute their time in order to help us support groups. To volunteer please drop an email to apac.admin@ineta.org

Sanjay Shetty,
President, INETA APAC sanjay.shetty@ineta.org

Editor's Note

The INETA APAC Newsletter is one year old!

Do drop us an email on how we can make it better. If you have good designs for the look-and-feel, feedback/comments on the newsletter, do drop us an email.

In this month's newsletter, we talk to usergroup leads from India and Malaysia who share with us some of their exciting activities that are being organized. We always love to hear about usergroup activities that are happening in APAC. Do drop us a an email on the activities being organized and we will work with you to get it featured. With everyone's efforts, we can build a vibrant .Net community.

The newsletter committee is looking for volunteers in this team who can assist in various areas such as data collation, editing, proof reading, design and formatting etc. Please feel free to drop an email to weehyong.tok@ineta.org

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Editor, INETA APAC
Newsletter Team

The APAC .Net Channel

Usergroup Activities around APAC

India

By Arun Kumar
The Campus Club meets for the month of July were organised in the following days
- 11th July 07, Wednesday (02:00 P.M to 04:30 P.M)
- 14th July 07, Saturday (10:00 A.M to 01:00 P.M)
- 18th July 07, Wednesday (02:00 P.M to 04:30 P.M)

The various topics covered are as follows
- Introduction to C# Programming by G.V. Suganya
- Introduction to .Net 3.0 and WPF by M.Arun Kumar
- Debugging using Visual C# Express Edition by M.Arun Kumar
- Visual Web Developer by A.G. Poornakala
- Object Oriented Programming using C# by Jebasingh, A.D.S.
- Exception Handling by M.Arun kumar
On 11th July 07, seventy five students attended the meet. Mrs. Jeyamala and Mrs. Daisy, faculties of computer science department created awareness about the various activities of the MaduraiDotNet User Group on that day.

Arun Kumar delivering a session on WPF

The audience at the meet

On 14th July 07, thirty four students attended the meet and the Hands On Lab that was organised in Central Computing Centre, Thiagarajar College of Engineering.

Poornakala delivering a session on Visual Web Developer

The audience at the meet

The Hands on Lab in progress

Finally on 18th July 07, fifty three students attended the meet. All the Campus Club Meets were organized at Mechanical department conference hall. Arun Kumar, Jebasingh, Suganya, Sindhuja and Poornakala coordinated the entire event.

Jebasingh,A.D.S during ‘OOPS using C#’ session

Arun Kumar delivering a session on Exception Handling

A big Thank You to the INETA APAC Team for supporting the MaduraiDotNet User Group from the very beginning and to all the people who have made this possible.

Malaysia

Asia Games Zone
29th June - 1st July 2007
Kuala Lumpur COnvention Centre
Malaysia

By Chua Wen Ching

INETA was a key supporting organization to this event.

It was a great honor to be invited by the organizers of AsiaGamesZone to speak 2 sessions to secondary students. It was my very 1^st time speaking to these children from different schools. AsiaGamesZone aimed for 100,000 people to participate on this session and it was held in KLCC Convention Centre. However the Career’s Talk was just one of the events on this session.

I spoke on 2 sessions and each sessions consisted around 70 – 90 students.
- Getting Started in Building an IT Community
  
  I started off describing what were an IT Community and the purpose of having one. I had seen interests among the children to build something similar like Computer Clubs in the school and how they can register with INETA membership. I described the process of building one and what were the common pitfalls of building one. I had demonstrated some basic tools which were built on top of .NET to assist them in getting started. I encouraged them to start something small. I will probably drives .NET Development to these kids when they had already formed this clubs in their schools.
- Building a Career in the IT industry
  
  I spoke to the various opportunities jobs in the IT industry. I noticed that these kids were so fond about games development and multimedia. I guessed .NET Development was probably too new for these kids to think off right now. However beyond that I hope I can teach these kids to write basic software using C# one day. I shared my experiences in understanding the jobs requirements and helping them to understand how to find a better job through my personal experiences? As you know, most parents have advised their kids to be doctor, lawyer and accountants since young. IT was not considered as a potential career.
Check out the photos below.
MIND July 2007 Monthly Chapter Meeting
7th July 2007, 2:00pm – 6:00pm
Microsoft Auditorium, 29th, Tower II
Kuala Lumpur City Center

By Chua Wen Ching

This time we had Adam Cogan, Australia for a special session in MIND Gathering. The turnout wasn’t that good due to our mail system failure to all of our members. MIND had to work harder to get this fix by September 2007 (before TechEd 2007).

Thanks to Ryan and Adam for taking their time to speak here. We had only 30 members who participated on this but they gave a very positive feedback about his session especially the Act. Below was the sessions shared by Adam:
- Rules to Successful Projects
- Rules to Better Windows Forms
- Customising and Extending Team Foundation Server
- Best Practices for Reporting Services
Below were some pictures taken on that day.

Adam and Ryan from SSW

Adam sharing his knowledge on this field.

The audiences listening to Adam’s session.

Speakers’ Dinner

Adam’s kids enjoying their deserts too.

Check out

http://mind.com.my/blogs/events/archive/2007/07/03/MIND-Monthly-Chapter-Meeting-_2D00_-July-2007.aspx

for more details.

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