Microsoft Technology Adopter Challenge

Microsoft Corporation (India) Pvt. Ltd. invites you to put your genius to test to create the next Killer Application using the forthcoming development tools and mobile platforms in Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) and coming up with the most ingenious Tips-and-Tricks for Windows Server 2003 deployment.

THINK OUT OF THE BOX...
... and come up with solutions - Applications and Tips-and-Tricks - that will put you in position to win a series of fabulous prizes.

The Microsoft Technology Adopter Challenge is an umbrella program that comprises of two parallel Contests specifically dedicated to the Developer and IT Professional communities respectively:

YOU OWN YOUR APPLICATION
Microsoft will not own the Intellectual Property associated with your application. It's yours to keep and market as you choose.

So Enter Now! You could be the next superstar in the Developer or IT Professional community, and on your way to fame and fortune.

CONTEST LAUNCH: 25 April 2005

CONTEST ENDS: 17 June 2005

For Details Visit :- http://www.microsoft.com/india/connections/mstac/

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OVERALL WORK OF DEVCON

DEVCON 2005 was a Grand Triumph and Kudos to the MUGH Core Members and the Audience. DevCon 2005 was a great effort from all the core members of MUGH. I didn't believe to see the audience sitting in for more than 7 hours, and all the session are very interactive and appealing. Many of audience have given feedback that the event was wonderful and looking similar events in the future. It was a thrilling and challenging experience. Let me thanks all the Speakers and others, who spare their valuable time with us and make this event a big success.

Devcon Pictures: http://www.mvpblog.com/devcon/

In short, I would say: DevCon 2005 and MUGH Rocks!!! Let us make MUGH a Vibrant Community!!!!

DevCon 2005 by Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad (MUGH) - April 10th, 2005

A full day event focusing on various latest technology topics of Microsoft Product line, featuring Dev Guru's and IT Celebrities of India, from Microsoft Developer Evangelism Team, MS IDC and MS GDCI. These sessions covered the upcoming cutting edge technologies Indigo, Visual Studio Team System and Whidbey and SQL Server Mobile 2005. Over 500 members registered online with the event and more than 130 members attended and participated in a very interactive way.

Conducted By:

This technical fiesta was conducted by Microsoft User Group Hyderabad (MUGH), in association with Microsoft GDCI, Vasudeva Realtors and Satyam Computers.

Participation:

Participants	Number
Professionals	110+
Students	25+
Total	135+

Sessions Conducted

Session	Speaker
Key Note Speech	Berry Rogers, Microsoft Services IT, Redmond.
VS 2005 Express Products	Janakiram MSV, Academic Evangelist, Microsoft.
Indigo, Connected Systems Framework	Kumar Gaurav Khanna, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft.
Testing in Visual Studio Team System 2005	Pratap J Ladhani, GDCI, Microsoft.
Enhancements in SQL Server Mobile 2005	Sachin Sinha, IDC, Microsoft.
Globalization and Localization in .NET	Deepak Gulati, ISV Evangelist, Microsoft

Participation from companies : Infosys, Cognizant Technologies, Wipro, Keane, Satyam, TCS, Microsoft, Virtusa and InfoTech

Overall feedback:

Some of the objective feedback include: (Collected from feedback forms)

1. Excellent, impressive (more than 30 responses)
2. Want more sessions, at least 3 in year !!!! (there were more than 5 reponses like this)
3. Really Good (more than 23 responses saying this)
4. Wanted to share material/slides (10+ responses)
5. MUGH is doing very good. Wanted to contribute more to MUGH !!! (at least 10 responses)

A Consolidated Report

Comments of some of the participants:

Ramesh Srinivasan, Cognizant Technologies

Thanks to MUGH for making this event happen this way, this is a great experience and I appreciate DevCon event managers to make everything happend on time with out much schedule deviation.

When I looked at the schedule, I strongly decided to attend Kumar Gaurav Khanna's session on INDIGO. That's a great session on a great technology coming up.

SQL Server Mobile - IDC Team, Microsoft India

This event has exceed our expectation, It's a very good experience for us to address such a large developer community in Dev Con 2005. We look forward to do more sessions on

SQL Server Mobile 2005 with Microsoft User Group, Hyderabad.

Rajesh, Infosys

Sessions are very good and very helpful for Developers to work with emerging Microsoft technologies, especially Indigo and Visual Studio Team System.

I want to contribute more to MUGH as a core member as well. Thanks to MUGH.

Lakshmi S, Virtusa Ltd.

Felt like I have attended Tech-Ed or some MSDN Event. Extremely cutting edge technology sessions and Great speakers. 10 times worth than a sunday @ home :-)

I request MUGH to conduct these kind of events atleast 3 times a year.

Umesh Thota, Student

As the day started we with our hopes high, all done with our arrangements were waiting for clock to strike 10. At 10 it was a marvel an astonishing number of people, both students and developers showed up. in spite of it being a Sunday.
It was a feeling of fruits for our hard work. there was an element of fun, which was never planned. i enjoyed every moment of it and hoped the day would never end.

Hindu coverage on DevCon 2005 :

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005040910240400.htm&date=2005/04/09/&prd=th&

Some Blogs:

http://arun.mvpblog.com/2005/04/devcon-2005-by-microsoft-user-group.html

http://geekswithblogs.net/umesh/archive/2005/04/18/36582.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/ssadasivuni/archive/2005/03/16/394716.aspx

http://murthys.blogspot.com/2005/04/devcon2005-mugh.html

http://weblogs.asp.net/anjanaram/archive/2005/04/05/397142.aspx

My work this week

This week i need to make up for a lot of work. i need to focus on the developement work and need to spare more time for that. lot of things are backing and i need to be fast to make up the work this week.

Devcon PHOTOS by Arun Ganesh

U can see most of the DEVCON SNAPS here

I am not feeling well

Last week i am not feeling well and cld not manage my work and i have a lot of work this week.

DEVCON SNAPS

Devcon Snaps Can be viewed at DEVCON SNAPS

DEVCON IS A BIG SUCCESS

Devcon is grand success and all the efforts of the core team had shown up fruitful results and all the core is happy regarding the event becuase everyone in the core had put up their full strengths and hardwork since the day one when we had decided to make DEVCON 2005. That's great and good Team spirit.

The feed back is very good and we are very happy with that.

These are the updates from Venkat who had made us available with the feedback updates

It was really amazing to look into the feedback of attendees. Gaurav
has a special mention in at least 5 feedbacks saying he is excellent,
good. People wanted his sessions more. This is a very good sign i
think, when people start adding values to speakers also.

Some of the objective feedback include:

1. Excellent, impressive
2. Want more sessions, at least 3 in year !!!! (there were more than 5
reponses like this)
3. Really Good (there was more than 23 responses saying this)
4. Wanted to share material/slides
5. MUGH is very good. Wanted to contribute more to MUGH!!! (at least 4
responses)

Also, some of the suggestions include.

1. Provide stationery (more than 4 responses)
2. Start early (by 8 am), close up by noon
3. Too many sessions
4. Have one laptop for all presentations
5. Include sessions for Yukon, VSTS
6. Have programming challenges on MUGH, as this would help developers contribute

This is good feedback as far as our work is concerned and all of them had put up great strengths apart from their regular work for DEVCON.

Updates of DEVCON 2005

DEVCON is happening and the things are going in fast pace and i got the plates and glasses and the remaning works assigned to me. everyting is going on well and we make DEVCON 2005 the most unforgettable event in HYDERABAD.

All the core members are doing their work and make this event happen.

ABOUT DEVCON

The Details about the event DevCon 2005 are as follows:

MUGH is going to conduct an event called DevCon 2005, on April 10th 2005, a Developer Conference in association with INETA and Microsoft in CHIP auditorium, Cyber Towers, Hi-tech City.

DevCon is nothing but a series of presentations on various latest technologies coming up at Microsoft product line and sharing the community spirit amongst them.

MUGH stands for Microsoft User Group Hyderabad.

It has around 3000+ members till date on .NET technologies and 300+ members in SQLCON Group (a dedicated SQL Community).

MUGH started life as DNUG (.NET Users' Group), Hyderabad. However, we felt that various Microsoft technologies function so well in concert with each other - and our earlier name did restrict our scope to just one of them.

MUGH is operated by a core group that consists of Microsoft MVPs and Community Stars - in addition, Microsoft often helps us in conducting our activities that include user group meetings.

Almost an year ago an idea was born it was and is still popularly known as DNUG (DotNET Users Group) Hyderabad which today has matured and stands in front of you baptized as MUGH (Microsoft Users Group; Hyderabad).

Presently, MUGH's user group meetings are held every third Friday of the month - you need to be a MUGH member to attend these meets. MUGH membership is free…

Details of the EVENT are as Follows :-

Date:	APRIL 10th 2005
Time:	10.00 A.M to 5.30 P.M
Venue:	CHIP Auditorium, Cyber Towers, Hi-Tech City, Hyderabad.
10.00 A.M – 10.30 A.M	Key Note (MUGH Introduction) + Cake Cutting + Registration + …… …
10.30 A.M – 11.00 A.M	MUGH Anniversary
11.00 A.M - 12.00 P.M	Session II - Jani M.S.V (VS 2005 - Express products....)
12.00 P.M - 1.00 P.M	Session II - Gaurav Khanna - (ASP.NET 2.0 + Security)
1.00 P.M – 2.00 P.M	Lunch
2.00 P.M - 3.00 P.M	Session III - Pratap J Ladhani (Testing in VSTS)
3.00 P.M – 4.00 P.M	Session IV - IDC Team (SQL Server 2005 Mobile)
4.00 P.M – 5.00 P.M	Session V - Deepak Gulati - (Globalization and Localization with .NET)
5.00 P.M – 5.30 P.M	End Note

REGISTRATION :-

It is 100% Free for all the Developers - (But do not forget to register your name)

Check out Free Registration for the Event - http://www.mugh.net/devcon.htm (Entry is restricted to registrants only, so do not forget your identity like business card or ID card)

DEVCON REGISTRATIONS STARTED

Devcon most happening event for Developers on Updates in Microsoft Techncolgies for which the Core group of MUGH ( Microsoft user Group, Hyderabad) had made a lot of efforts and finally the registrations are now open for getting registered. so those who are in Zeal to know what is happening in DEVCON visit the DEVCON SITE for updates and get regsitered for urselves. This is a good oportunity for Developers on Microsoft product line.

UPDATES VAL SITE

The image is giving a big problem and we are not able to get the logo that is there in the same format. i hope we shld concentrate on it from Tuesday