The South Sound .NET User Group meets the 2nd Thursday of each month (with a few noted exceptions) at the Olympia Center, 222 Columbia NW in downtown Olympia. Register your email address with this site to receive a monthly newsletter, meeting notices, and general announcements. We also have a local community discussion group at http://communities.msn.com/ssdotnet

Jan 10, Feb 15, Mar 13, Apr 10, May 8, Jun 12, July 10, Aug 14, Sep 11, Oct 9, Nov 13, Dec 11.

The Olympia Area SQL Server User Group (OASSUG) is a community of information technology professionals who have an interest in Microsoft's© SQL Server database products. We are a network of SQL server professionals  in the Olympia, Tumwater, and Lacey communities that have a strong desire to explore and share the latest technological advances in database technology and how to apply them to real business solutions.


For more information browse to www.oassug.org

The Portland Code Camp was scheduled for July 19th and 20th at the WSU campus in Vancouver, Washington, but has been postponed due to scheduling conflicts.  We'll post an update here as soon as we know what the new schedule will be.  You can also check their website for updates, link below.

If you have any questions or would like to help out, please contact us at director@portlandcodecamp.com.

The website at http://www.portlandcodecamp.com/

This seminar will explore the What, Why, Who, and How behind Unified Communications and how state & local government can benefit from "communications-enabled business processes". Unified communications (UC) offers the ability to significantly improve how individuals, groups and agencies interact and perform. UC is a direct result of the convergence of communications and integration into applications. The convergence of all communications on IP networks and open software platforms enables a new UC paradigm and is changing how individuals, groups and organizations communicate. For more information about this event and to register, please visit the IPMA’s web site at: http://www.ipma-wa.com/.

Don't miss the annual Devscovery conference in Redmond August 19 through the 21, 2008. Because Wintellect is one of our user group sponsors, I've arranged for our members to receive $150 off on the conference admission! As this discount is only for our user group members and their current employers, please send me an email to get the private discount code before registering.

D E V S C O V E R Y 2008

Designed with the intermediate to advanced developer in mind, Devscovery is three days of in-depth .NET content in the Microsoft Conference Center on the Redmond campus for just $900.

Choose from more than 30 sessions by Jeffrey Richter, Jeff Prosise, John Robbins, Paul Mehner, Dennis Hurst and Richard Hundhausen.

Learn about Atlas, Windows Communication Foundation, Security, ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Studio Team System, Windows Workflow Foundation, advanced debugging, the Framework, and more!

Space is limited. Register today at www.devscovery.com

View the full conference schedule at http://www.devscovery.com/overview.aspx

From the Olympia SQL Server User Group:

Have you heard about SQL Saturday?  It's a free one day training event for SQL professionals held in different locations around the world.  This great training event will be coming to Olympia, Washington on October 11, 2008 at the Olympia Center. We'll have two tracks of material, six sessions each.  Sessions will consist of different how-to-topics, as well as some topics on the upcoming SQL Server 2008 release. Plenty of variety for everyone. Registration is open and seating is limited, register today!

At this time we are accepting speaker abstracts.  If you are interested in presenting a session topic visit please submit an abstract or two. We really want a good mix of speakers, especially local speakers. If you're passionate about a topic and can talk to your peers about it for an hour, then we want you to participate! We'll give everyone a couple weeks to submit abstracts and then we'll work on building the final schedule.

Go to the SQL Saturday Event Page for more information.