Code to Live, Live to Code - ]InBetween[ Microsoft Community Summit 2008

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

]InBetween[ Microsoft Community Summit 2008 - Free Weekend of Training by Randy Patterson

The Orlando Convention Center was not being used between TechEd Developer week and TechEd ITPro week. Microsoft has graciously donated the convention center to be used by the Florida Developer Community! There are 9 large conference rooms that will be filled for 2 days with presentations from Local, Microsoft and TechEd Speakers. In addition to the full day tracks listed below there will also be discounts on MS Certification Exam Tests, an MCSA/MCSE: weekend upgrade bootcamp, a Developers Weekend Exam Cram and Train the Trainer sessions. ALL FOR FREE!!!

Saturday, June 7th Activities - 830a to 530p

Full Day Tracks	Description
SQL Saturday	Best of the SQLSaturday events with some special product team reps attending.
Open Space	Four corners of a room with whiteboards. Sign up for a 30 minute talk on whatever topic you want
RoboCamps	More info coming soon. Until then http://www.robochamps.com
Day of Agile	Got a passion for Agile? Jim Zimmerman and Chris Chandler have put together a full day of Agile topics ready to go.
.NET Code Camp	Some local speakers, some speakers from the regular TechEd Event and some members of the Microsoft product teams.
ITPro Camp	A first for the state and maybe the country? The very first Microsoft ITPro Camp

*Schedule subject to change so check the official web site often (http://www.devfish.net/articles/inbetween/)

Party and Social! Saturday, June 7th 6:00PM

Sunday, June 8th Activities - 830a to 530p

Full Day Tracks	Description
SQL University	Andy Warren is putting together some of his very best training on SQL Server to get you up to speed quick
Dot Net Nuke University	A full day of Dot Net Nuke Training
Open Space	our corners of a room with whiteboards. Sign up for a 30 minute talk on whatever topic you want
ToolShed	Russ Fustino and Stan Schultes come together with encores of "Its all about the Tools" episodes 1 and 2, plus all new episodes 3 and 4
OCS University	OCS MVP Keith Kabza and Tom Cross will get you up and running on Office Communication Server in a day
.NET University	Doug Turnure's flagshihp series of structured courses geared to bring you up to speed on a particular topic. Three separate all day courses are being offered, including Sharepoint, Service Oriented Development in .NET 3.5, and BizTalk. Something for almost everyone!
VSTS University	Tentative - Doug Seven and the Redmond guys hang around to teach you VSTS. Learn from the VSTS team themselves.

*Schedule subject to change so check the official web site often (http://www.devfish.net/articles/inbetween/)

This is an incredible opportunity for learning with enough variety for everyone. A special thanks goes out to our local Microsoft Developer Evangelist, Joe Healy for organizing the event and creating the effective but very ugly web site.

Wednesday, May 07, 2008 5:48:30 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)

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