A Thought on the Aussie .NET Community
by Andrew Tobin on Jan.20, 2009, under Uncategorized
I was having a talk on this the other day with Matt Hamilton during work, but how active would you say the Australian Development Community is today? Is it more or less active than a year ago, or two years ago?
Mitch Denny and the guys do a fantastic job of giving us Code Camp Oz every year, and same goes for Greg Low and the SQL Code Camp but the rest of the time I think it’s gone pretty quiet (although I don’t get to go to Tech.Ed).
Maybe it’s just me, but since Frank Arrigo moved to Seattle the old Tech Talk Blogs has died off, the last post being over two years ago, everyones moved on to Twitter to a large degree and blog posts “feel” less regular, and I was just wondering if it was a general impression that I’ve gotten or whether it’s something felt by others as well.
For the record, the Microsoft guys I’ve seen or talked to on Twitter are still a bit active and Nick Hodge has offered to come out and talk to us at the Albury/Wodonga .NET Users Group in the past (Dave Glover has actually been to see us in the past also), but I can’t even name the guy that replaced Frank at Microsoft for the Australian Dev community.
That being said, I don’t belong to any of the email groups or anything around.
So I have to ask the question, for anyone who stumbles across this blog, is the Aussie Dev community getting quieter, or is it just my perception of it?
Any recommendations on where the conversations are happening?
Edit:
And in a case of FAIL on my part, Frank Arrigo had actually posted about the new head of Microsoft’s Developer and Platform Evangelism division, Gianpaolo Carraro, the day before I posted this, but I was on the road and only just caught up on my feeds!
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January 21st, 2009 on 11:17 am
[...] by Andrew Tobin on Jan.21, 2009, under Uncategorized Just a follow up on yesterday’s post. [...]
January 22nd, 2009 on 4:08 am
Hey Andrew
thx for the mention
roger lawrence has been looking after the evangelist team for the past 12 months. you can find his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/rog42/
you can also connect to the ausdev folks http://blogs.msdn.com/ausdev/
did you see the steve ballmer presentation? it was pretty cool too http://www.microsoft.com/australia/powertodevelopers/
January 22nd, 2009 on 5:37 am
Hey Frank,
Thanks for that, I wasn’t aware Roger was caretaking on that job – I met him at the last Code Camp and see him on twitter.
Unfortunately it’s a bit of travel to get to things like the Steve Ballmer presentation, live, and it becomes two to three days off work, which makes it unfeasible.
Thanks for the comment though, and I’ll check the links.
Andrew
January 23rd, 2009 on 1:56 pm
Hi Andrew,
Please also check out the blog from another member of the team here – Michael Kordahi – http://delicategeniusblog.com/ . He and Nick are both in the Next Web Team here at Microsoft part of Gianpaolo’s organisation. I’m new to Microsoft Australia, but have 9yrs working for Microsoft UK behind me. I’m Biz Dev working closely with the guys mentioned above.
One of the other interesting blogs from my UK days is http://www.marcmywords.org . Hope this helps, please feel free to get in touch.
Best regards
Chris