1. Great Lakes Area .NET Users Group
November 16, 2011

2. 2011 Executive Officers
 President – David Giard
 Vice-President – Kent Fehribach
 Treasurer – Shelly Noll
 Secretary – Gerhard Weiss

3. Volunteers
 Brian Korzynski
 Matt Ruma
 Onorio Catenacci
 Dave Kroondyk
 Jamie Altizer
 Sukhdev S Tur
 Hilary Weaver
 Randy Pagels, Microsoft guy
 Jim Priore, Cinematographer

4.  E-mail
Contact us  president@migang.org
 vp@migang.org
www.migang.org  secretary@migang.org
 treasurer@migang.org
www.migang.org/news.rss  webmaster@migang.org
 pr@migang.org
twitter.com/gangannounce
tinyurl.com/GangLinkedIn
tinyurl.com/GangFacebook
tinyurl.com/GangCalendar
groups.google.com/group/migang

5. Platinum Sponsor

6. Platinum Sponsor

7. Platinum Sponsor

8. Platinum Sponsor

9. Platinum Sponsor

10. Platinum Sponsor

11. Platinum Sponsor

12. Gold sponsors

13. Gold sponsors

14. Silver Sponsors

15. Bronze Sponsors

16. Bronze Sponsors

17. Discounts for our members
 Manning
 www.Manning.com
 36% off
 Enter discount code “UG367”
 MSDN Magazine
 20% off subscription
 1 Year (12 issues) $35.00 $28.00
 2 year (24 issues) $60.00 $48.00
 (866)‐293‐3194
 Promo code: A0EUG1
 CODE Magazine
 33% off subscription
 1 Year (6 issues) $29.99 $19.99
 www.codemag.com/subscribe/migang

18. INETA Offers
 Pluralsight
 Free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! Library
 tinyurl.com/PSGuestPass
 Wrox/Wiley
 40% off select Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0 books to user group
members through 6/30.
 See the list at ineta.org/offers U
 Use promo code WVS10
 O’Reilly
 50% off ebook purchases from O’Reilly for a limited time
 40% off print book purchases for user group members
 Use discount code DSUG when ordering online
 oreilly.com/store
 Windows Azure
 Free One-Month Pass
 azurepassusa.cloudapp.net

19. Supporting Members
Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since
Jamie Altizer 2/8/2011 2/8/2011
Ondrej Balas 6/15/2011 6/15/2011
Mark Barkey 3/16/2011 9/15/2004
Stanislav Bashtavenko 2/16/2011 2/16/2011
Brittan Benedetto 6/18/2011 6/18/2011
DJ Bodnar 4/20/2011 4/20/2011
Kelly Brownsberger 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Onorio Catenacci 9/21/2011 11/18/2009
Jim Donahue 7/11/2011 12/16/2008
Russel Drown 9/13/2011 4/21/2010
Kent Fehribach 1/1/2011 11/19/2008
Cyndi Flaugher 2/14/2011 2/14/2011
David Giard 11/17/2010 11/19/2008
Rob Gibbens 8/17/2011 8/17/2011
Robert Griffiths 6/22/2011 6/22/2011
Edward Hanlon 6/15/2011 6/15/2011
Doug Hawes 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Jim Heruben 9/21/2011 8/20/2003

20. Supporting Members
Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since
Richard Irwin 1/17/2011 5/21/2003
Chet Kloss 06/15/2011 06/15/2011
Bruce Kohler 9/21/2011 9/21/2011
Brian Korzynski 10/20/2010 10/20/2010
Jelard Macalino 8/15/2011 8/15/2011
Bhupinder Mavi 10/1/2011 10/1/2011
Marc McVey 9/21/2011 6/17/2009
Don Miller 8/17/2011 8/17/2011
Paul Mrozowski 8/25/2011 11/18/2009
Lena Nilsson 7/20/2011 7/20/2011
Chris Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Godfrey Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Shelly Noll 1/19/2011 4/21/2010
Tim O'Connell 4/17/2011 5/16/2007
Ephraim Okoye 4/20/2011 11/16/2005
David Parshan 3/16/2011 3/16/2011
Jeff Povlov 1/19/2011 1/19/2011
Robert Powers 8/17/2011 1/20/2009
John Ptasznik 8/17/2011 8/17/2011

21. Supporting Members
Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since
Mandar Purekar 3/16/2011 3/16/2011
Matt Ruma 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Harminder Sandhu 9/21/2011 9/21/2011
Rick Schummer 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Patrick Steele 11/17/2010 11/17/2004
Lindell Stephens 7/20/2011 11/18/2009
Wasay Syed 7/20/2011 7/20/2011
Jeff Thompson 10/1/2011 10/20/2010
Sukhdev Tur 11/5/2011 11/5/2011
R.T. Vega 4/21/2011 1/18/2006
Hilary Weaver 3/16/2011 3/16/2011
Gerhard Weiss 8/17/2011 3/19/2008
Y. K. Yeung 7/20/2011 6/17/2009
Susan Yount 2/16/2011 2/16/2011

22. 2011 GANG Goals
 Cultivate Ownership In Group
 Continue to Attract High-Quality Speakers
 Support and Connect with other Area User Groups
 Average 60 attendees per meeting
 Increase supporting membership by 15%
 Increase Monetary Sponsorship by 10%
 Make it an event

23. 2011 GANG Goals
Cultivate Ownership In Group
 More volunteers than ever
 New officer candidates
 Codeslingers moved to Epitec
 DevLunch
 Social hour
 More Lightning Talks
 625 on Mailing List
 244 Twitter followers (+84%)
 276 LinkedIn Members (+71%)

24. 2011 GANG Goals
Continue to Attract High-Quality Speakers
 Gary Short
 Michael Eaton
 Mike Amundsen
 Charles Stacy Harris
 Gus Issa
 Jennifer Marsman
 Brian Prince
 Steve Bohlen
 K Scott Allen
 Richard Campbell
 Leon Gersing
 Josh Holmes,
 Darrell Hawley
 Bill Wagner
 Richard Hale Shaw
 Godfrey Nolan
 Glenn Block

25. 2011 GANG Goals
Support and Connect with other Area User Groups
 Incubator for Special Interest Groups
 Joint meeting with Detroit Cloud Computing Group
(3/2011)
 Joint meeting with AADND (1/2012)
 Officers attended ~50 user group meetings
 Speaker tours (G Short, M Amundsen, S Bohlen, R
Campbell)

26. 2011 GANG Goals
Average 60 attendees per meeting
 Average attendance = 81
120
100
80
60
40
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27. 2011 GANG Goals
Increase supporting membership by 15%
 November 2010: 23 supporting members
 November 2011: 53 supporting members
 130% increase!

28. 2011 GANG Goals
Increase Monetary Sponsorship by 10%
 Received $10,000 cash from sponsors!
 No pizza in 2011!
 Mega-SWAG
 End-of-year Cash Reserve up 100%
 Speaker sponsorships by
JetBrains, ComponentOne, DevExpress, & Telerik

29. 2011 GANG Goals
Make it an event
 Big-name speakers
 GANG10
 Videos
 Trivia
 Food Drive
 Membership Drive: XBox 360 giveaway
 Video recordings
 Greeters

30. Any First-Time Attendees?

31. Upcoming GANG Meetings
Date Speaker Topic
Dec No December meeting
Jan 18 TBD
Feb 15 Sarah Dutkiewicz Intro to PowerShell/Extending PowerShell
Mar 21 TBD
Apr 18 Mike Wood Azure
May 16 Steve Smith Common Design Patterns

32. Holiday Party
 Copper Canyon Brewery
 Thursday December 8 at 7PM
 Free Appetizers
 Door Prizes
Register at
http://gangholiday.eventbrite.com

33. Other User Groups
Group Date Link
Greater Lansing .Net UG 3rd Thu glugnet.org
Silverlight UG 3rd Thu tinyurl.com/MiSilverlight
Greater Detroit Cloud Computing UG 2nd Mon tinyurl.com/DetroitCloud
SharePoint User Group 2nd Tue tinyurl.com/SeMiSp
Ann Arbor .Net Developers 2nd Wed aadnd.org
Flint .Net UG 2nd Thu glugnet.org
SE Michigan SQL Server UG 2nd Thu semssug.sqlpass.org
SE Michigan Powershell Club 3rd Tue MichiganPowershell.com
NW Ohio .Net UG 3rd Tue NwNug.com
West Michigan .Net UG 4th Wed WmDotNet.org

34. Upcoming Events
What Where When Link
Livonia Nerd Lunch Aubree’s Pizzeria Nov 17 tinyurl.com/LivoniaNerds
Livonia, MI
Central Ohio DODN Columbus, OH Dec 10 cododn.wordpress.com/
CodeMash Sandusky, OH Jan 11-13 codemash.org

35. Special Interest Groups (SIG)
 Functional Programming (2nd Tuesday at Epitec)
 .NET Micro Framework Next Year

36. Motor City Codeslingers
• Pair Coding, Idea Exchange, Tech Book Exchange
• Wed Dec 7
6:00-9PM
• Epitec Offices,
24800 Denso Dr. Suite 150
Southfield, MI 48033
TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers
Codeslingers@migang.org

37. DevLunch
• Come meet up with other Developers in the area to
socialize and network over lunch. There will also
be a raffle which normally involves Gift Cards (to
help the winner pay for their meal), Software and
Shirts.
• Wed Dec 14, 12-1PM
(2nd Wed of each month)
• TGI Fridays
591 W Big Beaver Rd
Troy MI 48084
www.migang.org
secretary@migang.org

38. CafePress.com/MiGang

39. Job Announcements
• Developers Looking for Work
• Local Job Openings

40. Next Month
TBD
January 18, 2011

41. Social Hour
• Immediately following
this meeting
• Not a sponsored event!
• Maps are located on the
counter in back of the
room.
Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant
27522 Northwestern Hwy

42. Fabulous Prizes!
“Few things in life are more enjoyable
than giving away stuff that someone else
paid for”
-David Giard, GANG President

43. Fabulous Prizes!
Raffle Ticket Picker

44. Drive Safely