Wow!! The Community Launch was Fun

The Community Launch got over.. It was a lot of fun...

We had a more than expected number of people turing up. I think we had around 400 people coming in yesterday and a lot of them had good things to say about the event..:-)

I started off the day and then we had a series of sessions. Logu wowed everyone with his GPS with C# stuff and some of the DirectX based demos..:-)
Then we had Ravi doing SQL Notification stuff. His VPC went for a six and so he was unable to do the planned demos though.

Then I did my VB session. I had almost decided not to use a PPT and go in for a demo only session. But on the last day put together a few slides PPT. But still mine was a high on demos session. Every demo of refactoring I have done till now has got claps from audiences and this one was no exception. I ended the session with a few glimpses on what is to come, LINQ, VB 9 etc...

Then Sankar did a AJAX session and Dhamayanthi closed with a Team System session. Dhamay had almost given up on the demos due to problems with her Laptop, but she worked the whole afternoon and sailed through with her demos in working condition...

I think the Speakers Question Time bought out such a variety of questions that shows the enthusiam and interest in this new technologies inside the group.

Of course the fun part of thambola had everyone laughing and enjoying themselves.

We had tried a few new things this time.
1. Setting up the Experts corner, where the speakers sat. This helps as the members do not have to search for speakers and everyone is in one place.
2. The Media Center PC stall. I think a lot of excitement was generated by this, atleast the crowd before the stall made me think so.

Ofcourse, all of this would not have been possible without the coordination and administrative support from Maha and last minute support from JD. Thanks to both of them..

PS - One of the by products of the event was that a lot of new members joined the group and we swelled to around 4700+ :-)

PS 1 - Logu has uploaded the PPT he used to his blog

Comments

[Kanagasubramaniyan]

Hi anand and your co-managers of CNUG..

Actually i feel very sorry for our members behaviour at the end of the day in our jan 8th meeting.But apart from that incident overall it was resourecful and successful.What i want from you here is that you should not hesitate to make another event in future on seeing things like this..will you make my desire to be true..

[Sarrbjit Singh]

Sounds like a Great Community Launch. Do you have the slides / demo scripts made available online ?

Cheers