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WHAT: Portland Silverlight User Group - February Meeting

WHEN: Friday 02/19/2010 - (Yes, Friday is Correct)
6:00 p.m. Pizza (by Vertigo)
6:30 p.m. Presentation
~9:00 p.m. Afterwards at TBD

WHERE: Webtrends (map)
851 SW 6th Ave.
Portland, OR 97204-1337

WHO: Shawn Wildermuth
Shawn Wildermuth is a Microsoft MVP (C#), member of the INETA Speaker's Bureau and an author of six books on .NET. Shawn is involved with Microsoft as a Silverlight Insider, Data Insider and Connected Technology Advisors (WCF/Oslo/WF). He has been seen speaking at a variety of international conferences including SDC Netherlands, VSLive, WinDev and DevReach. Shawn has written dozens of articles for a variety of magazines and websites including MSDN, DevSource, InformIT, CoDe Magazine, ServerSide.NET and MSDN Online. He has over twenty years in software development regularly blogs about a range of topics including Silverlight, Oslo, Databases, XML and web services on his blog (http://wildermuth.com).

TOPIC: Silverlight Conversation and QA w/ Shawn Wildermuth
Do you have questions about Silverlight? Shawn's the person to ask. He's full of Silverlight knowledge, and he's coming to Portland to have a conversation with us. Shawn is extremely well known and respected in the Silverlight community, and it's going to be a real treat to have him. If you want to have a complex and nuanced discussion about Silverlight, join us for this meeting.

Warmup - Operating System in Your Browser Window
At the beginning of the meeting (6pm), Marc Schulper will show us how to write Silverlight applications for a web based operating system.

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Goals

The primary goal of the group is to allow software developers and designers in the Portland area share ideas, promote collaboration, and exchange knowledge regarding Microsoft’s Silverlight platform.

Membership

Anyone is welcome to join the group at any time during the year, although the group reserves the right to revoke any membership at any time. There is no cost to join the group.

Affiliations

The Portland Silverlight User Group is a Special Interest Group (SIG) formed under The Portland Area .NET User Group (PADNUG). As such, we've found it beneficial to share the same mailing list. All our email announcements will be handled through this list. If you haven't already subscribed, click on the link above to keep yourself informed!

Meetings

We hold regular meetings on the second Tuesday of each month from 6 to 8pm at Fiserv. We begin with networking and socializing over free food and drinks provided by our amazing sponsors, and then continue with presentations provided by group members. On occasion we do hold special events or combine with other user groups which may cause us to break for our normal schedule and location.

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