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OK, here's the deal: Those of us working on organizing the Ann Arbor Give Camp have been reaching out to charities for the past month or so. There's good news, and a challenge. We've had more than 35 local and regional charities respond with requests for software. The good news is that means...

An Ann Arbor area Flex meeting is being held tonight, at SPARK. It's free, and open to all. Topic: Flex: Rich Internet Application (RIA) Demos and Case Studies Join users of Flex, and others interested in Flex to view demos of Flex applications and talk about how companies are using Flex. Nick Kwiatkowski...

SPARK and Janeeva are coordinating to determine if there is interest in a Flex User Group. Toward that end, and toward introducing Flex to people who might not know about it, they are holding a meeting next Monday evening, February 11, from 6-8 pm. Introduction to Flex : Creating Rich Internet Applications...

The Michigan Python User Group will do some live coding of one or more of the the Code Kata's from Dave Thomas: http://codekata.pragprog.com/ The meeting will be held at 206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200, Ann Arbor, MI. It will start around 7 pm. MichiPUG meetings are free and open to the public.

We had a discussion at the office this afternoon that centered around how to attract a younger group of people to the computer user group meetings. We got several suggestions out of this, but are looking for more ideas. First of all, WHY do we want to attract a younger crowd? Well, the average age of...

Chris Woodruf did quite a few interviews during CodeMash last week. They've started to go live. You can see the list of the latest podcasts here He's got interview with Sara Ford , Dustin Campbell , Michael Rozlog , Keith Elder , Me, Brian Goetz , Jeff McWherter and Josh Holmes live already....

The advantage of writing my recap of CodeMash a little later is that I can start by pointing at one everyone else has written. To begin, Jim Holmes shows the strain of organizing CodeMash. After a break, he discusses what happened at CodeMash. As is usual, Scott Hanselman chooses just the right phrases...

As I finish my talk preparation for CodeMash, I'm putting together my schedule. You can view the silverlight page here: http://codemash.org/sessionscheduler/?1=2&2=28&3=4&4=7&5=3&7=42&8=14 However, that doesn't let me annotate the agenda, and discuss some of the other...

The Michigan Flex User Group has scored a Flex 3 RoadShow for February 6th. You wil oin Kevin Hoyt to learn about Flex 3. More here: http://www.theflexgroup.org/

Ann Arbor Area User Groups SRT Solutions strongly supports the local user groups. We believe that enabling developers to connect with one another and be exposed to different technologies provides a navigable path through a field where technology changes very quickly. This is good for our employees as...