TSUG-VE April Americas Meeting
Meeting Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Time: 5:00PM PDT/SLT (UTC-08:00)
Location: Microsoft Island in Second Life
Keynote: Advanced developer features in Visual Studio Team System 2010 with Daryush Laqab
Experience a tour of what’s coming soon in Visual Studio 2010 for debugging, profiling, analyzing and diagnosing your applications so they are capable of 24x7 reliability and of scaling to enterprise loads. Not only will you get to see the features in action, you’ll get a chance to ask questions to a member of the Microsoft team responsible for delivering those features. Come get the inside scoop, and get a leg up on all the other development teams out there!
Daryush Laqab is a Microsoft Program Manager for Visual Studio Team System.
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TSUG April EMEA Meeting
Meeting Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009
Time: 11:00AM PDT/SLT (18:00 UTC)
Location: Online (Microsoft Island in Second Life and/or Live Meeting)
Keynote: Visual Studio Team System Adoption at Microsoft with Brian Harry
About our speaker:
Brian Harry is a Microsoft Technical Fellow and serves as the Product Unit Manager for Team Foundation Server - a server based product designed to dramatically improve the productivity, predictability and agility of software development teams by ensuring that all team members have easy access to the information they need to make the right decisions at the right time.
Before joining Microsoft Brian worked in two startups - Da Vinci Systems (an early electronic mail company) and One Tree Software (developers of SourceSafe). One Tree Software was acquired by Microsoft in 1994.
In '96 Brian and a few others began working on the problem of improving the approachability of our API for the developer masses. Although this started as investigating ways to extend COM it eventually grew into what we now know of as the .NET Framework. For a couple of years, Brian was the Development manager for the Common Language Runtime and then served as the Product Unit Manager through the rest of the V1 and most of the V1.1 product cycle.
In 2002 Brian opened a remote development center in North Carolina and formed the Team Foundation Server team.
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This week, the online Team System Users Group (TSUG-VE) is hosting two great events focused on MSBuild and Team Build. If you’re interested in how automated builds can help your team, plan to attend both! Don’t forget… TSUG is an ONLINE user community focused on Team System and development practices. You can attend regardless of where you are in the world!
The first meeting features Canadian Team System MVP Wes MacDonald focusing on Deployment Strategies with Team Build. The second meeting features Team System consultant and trainer Steve St. Jean who will focus on the foundation of .NET builds with his Introduction to MSBuild. Both sessions will include a quick introduction to custom work item controls with Israeli Team System consultant, Shai Raiten.
February Evening Meeting
Meeting Date: Thursday, February 19, 2009
Time: 5:00PM PST/SLT (UTC-08:00)
Location: Microsoft Island in Second Life
Intro Session: Introducing Work Item Custom Controls with Shai Raiten
Keynote: Deployment strategies with Team Build with Wes MacDonald
Second Life URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft%20Island/190/73/22
LiveMeeting URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=RFR4H7&role=attend&pw=g6%22q%29mK6n
February Weekend Meeting
Meeting Date: Saturday, February 21, 2009
Time: 9:00AM PST/SLT (UTC-08:00)
Location: Microsoft Island in Second Life
Intro Session: Introducing Work Item Custom Controls with Shai Raiten
Keynote: Introduction to MSBuild with Steve St. Jean.
Second Life URL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Microsoft%20Island/190/73/22
LiveMeeting URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=TG29DD&role=attend&pw=swp%5DMm4%26H
Please sign-up at the TSUG website and install Second Life and Live Meeting clients before the start of the meeting. “See” you there!
Team System MVP, Hassan Fadili will be presenting a session on Visual Studio Team System 2010 at the SDN Users Group Event (SDE) in The Netherlands on March 27th.
Topic:
A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010
Abstract:
During this session, Hassan will examine a few of his favorite new features on show in the latest CTP release of Visual Studio Team System 2010. You'll see the new Architecture Explorer, layer diagrams, branch visualization, gated check-ins as well as some great improvements to the team build environment and reporting.
When & Where:
Friday, 27th March 2009. Doors open from 8:30am for a 9am start. During this Event other sessions are also planned. The SDN Event closes at 17:30pm Hotel Reehorst, EDE, The Netherlands.
http://www.sdn.nl
http://www.hotels.nl/nl/ede/reehorst/
Speaker BIO:
Hassan Fadili is a Lead Architect and VSTS Specialist for Detrio Consultancy B.V, an Netherlands consulting company specializing in software development for 3D Business Visualization based on WPF technology and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Hassan has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 10 employees up to some of Netherlands’s largest companies and government institutions. Hassan is the founder and track owner of the VSTS User Group Netherlands. Hassan has presented VSTS sessions several times for this user group. Hassan is a Microsoft MVP (Team System) and a member of the INETA User Group. He is also the board member of the DotNed (.NET & VSTS User Group Netherlands) and maintains a blogs at http://hassanfad001.blogspot.com and http://www.dotned.nl/blogs/default.aspx .
Join us next Wednesday evening, January 21 @ 18:00, for a presentation by Chris Tullier. Chris will be going over the new features coming in VSTS 2010 with an emphasis on the architecture, developer, and reporting capabilities. If you weren't able to make it to PDC this year and you have yet to check out the presentation videos on Channel 9 you will want to be at this meeting!
Dallas VSTS Users Group. RSVP for the meeting here.
Team System MVP, Anthony Borton will be presenting a session on Visual Studio Team System 2010 at the Queensland.NET Users Group in Australia on December 9th.
Topic:
A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010
Abstract:
During this session, Anthony will examine a few of his favourite new features on show in the latest CTP release of Visual Studio Team System 2010. You'll see the new Architecture Explorer, layer diagrams, branch visualisation, gated check-ins as well as some great improvements to the team build environment.
Lucky Door Prize:
Anthony will also be bringing along a great Christmas present for one of our lucky members. One lucky attendee will walk away with a full retail copy of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite with a 12mth MSDN Premium Subscription valued at over AUD$19,000 rrp.
When & Where:
Tuesday, 9th December 2008. Doors open from 5:30pm for a 6pm start. Meeting closes at 7:30pm
Microsoft's Brisbane Office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane.
http://www.qmsdnug.org
Speaker BIO:
Anthony Borton is a Development Process Specialist for AB Training Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in software development process and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Anthony has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 3 employees up to some of Australia’s largest companies and financial institutions. Anthony is the lead Microsoft Technical Readiness Instructor in Australia for Microsoft Visual Studio and has presented at the Microsoft launch events for both VSTS2005 and VSTS2008. Anthony is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Certified Scrum Master and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is also the president of the QLD VSTS users group and maintains a blog at http://www.myvstsblog.com
Team System MVP, Anthony Borton will be presenting a session on Visual Studio Team System 2010 at the Adelaide .NET Users Group in Australia next week.
Topic:
A Lap Around Visual Studio Team System 2010
Abstract:
During this session, Anthony will examine a few of his favourite new features on show in the latest CTP release of Visual Studio Team System 2010. You'll see the new Architecture Explorer, layer diagrams, branch visualisation, gated check-ins as well as some great improvements to the team build environment.
When & Where:
Tuesday, 2nd December 2008. Doors open and finger food available from 5:45pm. Meeting closes at 8pm
Innovation Centre , Level 2, Westpac House, King William Street, Adelaide (Wireless Internet Available)
http://www.adnug.com/notices.htm
Speaker BIO:
Anthony Borton is a Development Process Specialist for AB Training Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in software development process and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Anthony has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 3 employees up to some of Australia’s largest companies and financial institutions. Anthony is the lead Microsoft Technical Readiness Instructor in Australia for Microsoft Visual Studio and has presented at the Microsoft launch events for both VSTS2005 and VSTS2008. Anthony is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Certified Scrum Master and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is also the president of the QLD VSTS users group and maintains a blog at http://www.myvstsblog.com
The Team System community has been growing over time and information about the different events and presentations is being published everywhere.
This blog has been created for Team System user group leaders, influencers, speakers and event organizers worldwide to advertise their upcoming Team System related events through this blog and for those of you attending these events to find out about them. Categories will be created as needed to help everyone filter and find the events they are interested in.
You should expect to see at least the following fields about the events in posts to this blog:
- Name or topic
- Presenter
- Date and Time (including time zone)
- URL to the main web site of the user group or event
- Type of event
- In Person User Group
- Webcast
- Live Meeting
- Chat
- Virtual Meeting (Second Life)
- Location
(Special thanks to Chris Koenig for the suggestion)