
.NET · January 9, 2007
My Top 10 Personal Community Goals for 2007
My Top 10 Personal Community Goals for 2007
It's really hard for me to believe that 2006 has come and gone. All the things that I was able to accomplish and all the hard work. It's amazing that it was just 14 months ago that I became the President of Tulsa .NET Users Group when then President Caleb Jenkins, who had done so much for the group, relocated to Dallas to become our regional Developer Evangelist.
Now as the New Year begins I am setting goals to go above and beyond last year.
1. TulsaCodeCamp.com - first annual event - March 10th 2007! Very low key sponsorship - focused on the code, with heavy emphasis this year on .NET 3.0 - Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Windows Workflow Foundation (WF).
2. TulsaTechFest 2007 - to make our 2nd Tulsa TechFest even better than last year! We will have a finalized date within the next few days, so we can begin booking speakers. I personally would like to see the attendance numbers double this year. It really shouldn't be that difficult! Just need a team of volunteers from the beginning this time so we can accomplish more together.
3. DallasCodeCamp.com - present here again. This year's event is 4/21/07.
4. Little Rock's TechExpo - I had hoped to present at this year's Tech Expo, but I've just learned they will probably do a Code Camp at some point this year instead. So, I will hope to get over there then or was invited to speak at one of their regular meetings. After our 4th baby is born, I'll have to head that way.
5. Continue growing our User Groups: TulsaDevelopers.NET, Tulsa SQL Server Group, Tulsa SharePoint Interest Group, Tulsa Java Developers Group and starting in February our newest group Tulsa DOTNETNUKE Users Group. I would like to see approximately double the attendance at each of these meetings. I am working on a marketing plan now to make this happen.
6. I plan on adding at least 3 or 4 additional presentation titles/topics to my list. Starting with all the .NET 3.0 topics and then branching out from there, possibly digging into SharePoint 3.0.
7. Continue helping out at the international level as much as I can, by continuing my work with INETA.org, since I became the Assistant VP Speaker's Bureau last July and am now working on a some special projects for the community there as well.
8. North East Oklahoma Technology Council - something that I thought of and the TulsaDevelopers.NET Board of Directors help really iron out the details. This organization will be an incubator for any technology related User Groups in our region. More details coming soon!<
9. I have been working with Jason Townsend and we will be launching the Bartlesville .NET Users Group very soon! More details to follow.
10. Finally, to finish the 10, to give as much back (as always) to the community as possible, but with an emphasis on the most bang for the buck - via code samples, articles, etc. Stay tuned as I iron out the details.