.NET From India

CNUG Students

The Students Chapter of my usergroup, Chennai .NET User Group, now has its own domain.

www.cnugstudent.net

CNUG Students Meeting

A picture of me doing the CNUG Students session last month.

Agility and .NET

We had a wonderful session today morning from Thoughtworkers at CNUG. Though I have worked with NUnit and NAnt before it was really wonderful seeing them do a real Test based development there before all of us. And this is the first time I am seeing CruiseControl.NET in action(I saw a bit of CruiseControl when it was still a Java product, but not after it made a jump to .NET).

Thanks Owen, Badri and Sreekanth.

Agile and .NET

Owen Rogers, Sreekanth Vadagiri, and Badrinath Janakiraman from Thoughtworks are coming down tomm to do a session for CNUG on Agile Tools for .NET Development.

CNUG Students Session - Update

The Students Session yesterday went off very well and we had around 45 students from various colleges in Chennai. The general feedback was, a lot of them did not know anything about .NET, but the session helped them get a feel for it.

As long as I can persuade atleat 25% of those who came to try their hands at .NET, I think I would be happy...:-)

CNUG Students Session

Today I am doing a session for our local user group's CNUG Student Chapter. I am doing a talk on Introduction to .NET. I hope with Sriram's help this chapter will grow to be a successful way to introduce .NET to college students all over Chennai.

CNUG@1600

CNUG hit the 1600 member mark today...:-)

CNUG - DAM

As I have already posted here, we started off a new chapter to CNUG called CNUG-DAM(Design, Architecture and Management).

Here are some photos from the first meet of this chapter, which happened on the 1st of Nov, ie. last Saturday. We had around 35 people turn up for the three hour meeting and we now have 120 registered members for this group. Very good for a group that is hardly 2 weeks old.

CNUG - Tremendous Growth

There has been a lot of things happening in the user group and my being away for a fortnight or so for my marriage means I have to catch up with too many things now...:-)

We have had new initiatives that people have started out. We now are in the process of creating two new chapters in CNUG, one for the Infrastructure & support people and one for the architects and managers. These will take the total numner of CNUG groups to 4, with the base .NET group and the students group already there.

I am not sure if there are other groups which have started off so many chapters and I am also not sure if this is the best way to do this, but then I have volunteers who are ready to run the chapter and there have been member request for this. So I think it is correct to give it a try.

To tell the truth the last chapter was really born out of a series of posts in the CNUG forums. So this new chapter currently codenamed DAM(doesnt sound good, but stands for Design, Architecture and Management), will try to serve the architects and managers. Not the best combination, but then we cannot afford to have too many groups and there is not enough mass yet to create a seperate group for architects and managers.

And the base group is still growing fast, we have now hit the 1370 mark and I hope we will get to the 1500 mark soon...:-)

CNUG in Financial Express

My interview about User groups in India and specifically CNUG has appeared in todays FE. Check it out at Usergroups Can Help Members Become More Productive