What's in this issue
The APAC .Net Channel
.Net User Groups in APAC
Australia
Bangladesh
China
India
Malaysia
New Zealand
Singapore
Sri Lanka
If you would like to include your user group in this list, please drop the editor an email.
Newsletter Team
Darren Sim
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 Asia Pacific
TechEd North America 2009 will once again be focused into a single week for both communities
Microsoft TechEd is the premier technical education and networking event for any technology professional interested in learning, connecting and exploring a broad set of current and soon-to-be released Microsoft® technologies, tools, platforms and services.
To better serve the distinct needs of the developer and IT professional communities, Microsoft constantly looks for the best, most efficient channels to educate both developers and IT professionals on the latest technology developments.
The change in format back to a combined event is based on feedback from both our developer and IT professional audiences, and is a part of the larger technical audience event strategy. We remain excited to provide our customers the best technical education event in the industry and we are confident the combined-week model will continue to deliver the great content, education and connection opportunities it has delivered for more than 16 years. This single-week format is also consistent with other TechEd’s held across the globe (Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, Taiwan, Brazil, South Africa and Malaysia).
To better understand the various technical audience conferences’ Microsoft offers and determine which event is right for your customer’s please review the detailed overview at the following here.
PDC 08 sessions online for FREE
Since 1991, the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) has been Microsoft’s premier gathering of leading-edge developers and architects. Attend the PDC to understand the future of the Microsoft platform and to exchange ideas with fellow professionals. You’ll learn about upcoming products, meet Microsoft’s leaders and top engineers, write some code, and be inspired! Unplug for a few days and think about the future.
The slides and session recordings has been made available for free at https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/timeline.aspx
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Sanjay Shetty,
President, INETA APAC sanjay.shetty@ineta.org
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As we end off this new year, let's give ourselves a pat on our back for all the past months, where we've focused events revolving around the 2008 launch as well as Web Next Platforms, such as ASP.NET Ajax, Silverlight, Popfly, Live Services, CloudOS and more!
Next year would definitely be an exciting one, with many upcoming technologies. From all at INETA APAC, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009!
Darren Sim
Editor, INETA APAC
darren.sim@ineta.org
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Usergroup/Community Activities around APAC |
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Greater China Region
- TechEd Taiwan
32 MVPs participated in the event. We would like to thank Jackson Liao, Audience Marketing Manager for his great support to the MVPs during TechEd 2008. Most importantly, special thanks to our MVPs who helpeout at our booth and at the MSDN/ TechNet forum discussion session. Here are some information about Taipei TechEd.
- More than 2500 registrations in Taipei TechEd.
- 32 MVPs involved with TechEd activities (speaking, MVP booth, hands-on labs, ask-the-experts)
- 18 MVP Speakers (they delivered 31 sessions)
- 14 MVPs helped the MVP booth, ask-the-experts
- 10 MVPs participated in the MSND/ TECHNET forum discussion.
It was fun for everyone as we ran a MVP booth at TechEd Taipei and played some interactive games with the attendees. MVPs were also voluntarily sharing their expertise with the participants during TechEd 2008.
--Article contributed by: Reneata Chang and Cathy Lee (Taiwan MVP Team)
- 2008 China MVP Open day
2008 China MVP Open Day & Ceremony was held on Oct. 18 -19 in the Tangshan holiday conference center in Beijing. 130 MVPs from all over the country and 49 Microsoft staff came together. The theme of the MVP Open Day was the heroes in Chinese traditional Kung Fu story. We classified the MVPs into three teams named “Sanguo”, “Shuihu” and “Jinyong” representing the different technological field and application directions. MVPs in the modern technology community have the same characteristics as the ancient heroes. We really thanked the MVPs’ great contributions to the community, including evangelizing Microsoft technologies, sharing technical knowledge and promoting the development of community. Thanks to all MVPs who participated and all MS staff who provided their generous support for our MVP Open Day!
--Article contributed by: China MVP Lead Sisley Lin
- Taiwan MVP Open day
The Taiwan MVP Team conducted the Microsoft MVP open day during Oct 25th -26th. During this 2-day event, 60 attendees, including MVPs and Microsoft employees from Taiwan, the region, and corporate HQ gathered to be part of the MVP Open Day experience. Microsoft MVP Open Day is a great opportunity for Microsoft employees to meet up with MVPs and for MVPs to network with each other. We would like to thank Eddie Wu, General Manager OEM ASIA for keynoting the MVP open day, outlining the embedded, windows CE, Mobile, and PC vision. Thanks to Nestor Portillo ,Microsoft's Global Director of Community Support Services and Howard Lo, APGC Regional Manger , Mike Hickman, Group Program Manager and his team, Helena Li; Mei Liang; Katherine Hung , and Kevin Beares, Program Manager, Windows Server Solutions Executive Management , and Sen Wang, Developer evangelist, Microsoft Taiwan Developer Marketing team. Thanks to all for your presentation and sharing, MVPs enjoyed the MVP open day and enjoyed networking with MVPs peers and MS employees. Also *Thank you* to all the MS Mangers, greeting MVPs through videos. Click here to watch the video.
--Article contributed by: Reneata Chang and Cathy Lee (Taiwan MVP Team)
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