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Tuesday Dec. 2nd - Groove for Developers (in stereo)

The Western Mass .NET Users Group is hosting its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:00 PM at the MassMutual Learning Center in Chicopee, MA.  Free pizza, drinks and dessert will be provided compliments of MassMutual.  Directions are below.

Presentation Abstract:

Groove is the creation of Ray Ozzie (Chief Software Architect @ Microsoft). Groove is a highly-secure peer-to-peer collaborative platform that brings people and applications together rapidly. Groove is part of the Microsoft Office Suite and integrates with SharePoint. It is used within Government agencies and big & small corporations. This session will give an overview of Groove and show it from a .NET developer’s perspective - the use of the Groove API – GWS (Web Services), CodePlex’s  GWS wrapper,  DataBridge & SharePoint integration. All with plenty of examples & .NET code. The presentation will be on two screens ('stereo') showing the peer-to-peer capabilities of Groove.

About the Presenter:

Supriyo "SB" Chatterjee is a Architect/Tech-Lead at ArrowPoint KeyTech (Hartford CT) and was awarded a MVP for Groove:Architecture - http://tinyurl.com/sbcmvp He blogs when he can at http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee and is also an Acting Director of the Connecticut .NET Developers Group www.ctdotnet.org

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Meeting Details
Tuesday, December 2nd at 6:00 PM
MassMutual Learning & Conference Center
350 Memorial Drive
Chicopee, MA 01020
Telephone: (413) 598-9898

From the West
Take I-90 East (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
the Right.

From the East
Take I-90 West (Massachusetts Turnpike) to Exit 5 (Chicopee).
Bear Right after toll booth, and then Right again onto Rte. 33.
The MassMutual Learning & Conference Center is one half mile on
the Right.

From the South
Take I-91 North
to Rte. 291 East in Springfield. Follow Rte. 291 East to Exit 6
(Ludlow/Chicopee Falls). Follow exit ramp to first Stop sign. Take
a Right onto Fuller Road. Continue on Fuller Road to third traffic
light. Take a Left at light onto Memorial Drive (Rte. 33). Take a
Right into MassMutual Learning & Conference Center entrance.

If you have questions, please direct them to:
Dan Caron
User Group Leader, Western Mass .NET Users Group

Published Nov 24 2008, 12:23 PM by dancaron
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Comments

 

Community Blogs said:

I presented at the Western Mass .NET Users Group last Tuesday (Dec 2nd) and it went very well! This session

December 9, 2008 6:13 PM
 

SB Chatterjee: Groove for developers | It's all about Groove said:

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December 12, 2008 3:44 AM

About dancaron

Dan Caron is MassMutual's Professional .NET Leader and published author. With MassMutual, Dan leads the technical direction for Microsoft .NET application development for the enterprise. For over a dozen years, he has been designing and developing applications with programming technologies that include Microsoft VB.NET, C#, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, SQL and AJAX. Dan is also the new leader of the Western Mass. .NET Users Group. Dan is an author of two technical books (Professional DotNetNuke 4.0 and DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals). He has been a major contributor to the DotNetNuke open-source portal project since the core team was founded in 2003. Some of his noteworthy contributions include the exception handling framework, event logging provider, event viewer, module security redesign, web-farm support, namespace hierarchy organization and the event scheduler. Dan is now an alumnus of the DotNetNuke Core Team and Board of Directors. Based on his significant community contributions he has been recognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2005 and 2006. Dan's website is: http://www.dancaron.com
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