My community involvement in the last 2 years
PDC 2010 has come and gone. I thought it would be interesting to see what I have done in the last 2 years since PDC 2008. Looking back at my presentations and blog posts, I feel quite proud with the amount of involvement I've had with the community. Seeing everything laid out like that makes me realise just how much I enjoy participating in helping to share knowledge with the developer community.
There is so much that I've just forgotten about and left off the list, it is impossible to keep track of everything. You can look forward to lots more involvement in the next 2 years!
I've also got a running list of usergroup presentations I've done on my About page
Highlights
- Did my first Azure usergroup presentation within 3 weeks of Azure being announced at PDC
- Presented at Remix 2009 on Azure
- Started the Australian Azure mailing list
- Started an Azure community support site AzureQuestions.com (which has now been decommissioned)
- Flew around Australia and attended 4 out of 6 Australian Cloudcamps. It was “unconferences” style with breakout discussions where I would answer all Azure related questions
- Recorded all cloudcamp lighning talks and uploaded them, in an effort to increase cloud knowledge in the community (16 so far with more to come)
http://www.vimeo.com/album/1469190 - Trying to involve the .Net community at large with more cross posting (via the Developer Blog banter)
- Trying to involve the community more with “Community reports” of things happening such as presentations, lightning talks or interviews with people / companies
- Recorded community group presentations and uploaded them to help increase the visibility of local speakers and improve the visibility of local user groups
http://www.vimeo.com/album/1469195 - I still have 15 videos of sessions to process and upload
- Got 2 new presenters to start their Melbourne presentation debuts
- Presented at Codecamp 2009 on Azure & artificial life in the cloud
Cloud related activities (presentations & blog posts)
- 28/10/2008 – 1/11/2008 Windows Azure was announced at PDC: A total of 6 blog posts on PDC sessions on Azure including liveblogs of the Azure announcements in the keynotes.
/2008/10/29/my-notes-from-pdc-day-1-keynote/
/2008/10/29/my-notes-from-pdc-day-2-keynote/
/2008/10/30/my-notes-from-pdc-session-es-16/
/2008/10/30/my-notes-from-pdc-session-es-01/
/2008/10/30/my-notes-from-pdc-session-es-02/
/2008/11/01/my-notes-from-pdc-day-2-keynote-2/ - 9/11/2008 Blog on azure starting links
/2008/11/09/windows-azure-beginner-starting-links/ - 19/11/2008 Presentation: Introduction to Azure at Melbourne RDN
- 2/12/2008 featured as a guest blog post on Long Zheng’s website IStartedSomething.com
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20081203/guest-post-windows-azure-review-from-a-developer/ - 9/12/2008 how to host WCF on Azure
/2008/12/09/wcf-services-hosted-on-windows-azure/ - 10/12/2008 Hosting Silverlight on Azure
/2008/12/10/silverlight-hoste-on-windows-azure/ - 19/1/2009 Created the Australian Azure mailing list
/2009/01/19/australian-azure-mailing-list-is-now-live/ - 7/2/2009 Azure training kit released
/2009/02/07/new-february-version-of-the-azure-services-training-kit-is-now-available/ - 7/2/2009 Created a new XHTML 1.1 template for Azure
/2009/02/07/azure-web-role-template-%e2%80%93-xhtml-11/ - 15/2/2009 Listed new training videos that are available
/2009/02/15/windows-azure-how-do-i-videos-now-available/ - 14/04/2009 Presentation: Australian CodeCamp - Azure & artificial life in the cloud /2009/02/16/im-presenting-at-code-camp-oz-2009/
with the video /2009/11/14/artificial-life-in-the-cloud-using-windows-azure/ - 3/6/2009 Availability of latest Azure tools
/2009/06/03/may-2009-ctp-azure-tools-now-available/ - 14/6/2009 Presentation: Remix – Intro to Azure
/2009/11/14/remix-presentation-intro-to-windows-azure/ - 27/07/2009 /2009/07/27/july-2009-ctp-windows-azure-tools-now-available/
- 15/11/2009 update on the new features available in the latest Azure tools /2009/11/15/november-2009-tools-windows-azure-1-0-sdk-now-available/
- 15/11/2009 Analysis of the new Azure instance sizes
/2009/11/15/analysis-of-windows-azure-virtual-machine-sizes/ - 19/11/2009 Created a new Azure community site (1 year later I have now decommissioned it) /2009/11/19/new-cloud-computing-community-website/
- 19/11/2009 Again more live blogs on Azure announcements at PDC
/2009/11/19/my-notes-from-pdc09-day-1-keynote/
/2009/11/19/my-notes-from-pdc09-day-2-keynote/ - December 2009 Presentation: MOSSIG - Will all software run in the cloud by 2020?
- Jan 2010 Presentation: Silverlight codecamp – lightning talk
- Jan 2010 Using Azure to scale your Silverlight applications
/2010/01/31/using-windows-azure-to-scale-your-silverlight-application/ - Jan 2010 Using Silverlight (hosted on Azure) to distribute workloads out to clients /2010/01/31/using-silverlight-to-distribute-workload-to-your-clients/
- Feb 2010 Availability of latest Azure tools
/2010/02/04/feb-2010-azure-tools-now-available-3/ - March 2010 Best practices for the cloud
/2010/03/09/architecting-for-the-cloud-best-practices-from-amazon/ - March 2010 live blogs of the new Azure announcements at MIX
/2010/03/16/my-notes-from-mix10-day-1-keynote/
/2010/03/17/my-notes-from-mix10-day-2-keynote/ - June 2010 Presentation: Melbourne xRM usergroup – Integrating xRM and Azure
No slides to share - June 2010 Availability of latest Azure tools
/2010/06/08/june-2010-azure-tools-now-available-2/ - June 2010 Changes coming to SQL Azure
/2010/06/11/changes-to-sql-azure-database-sizes-coming-june-28th/ - June 2010 list of Azure sessions at TechEd
/2010/06/13/windows-azure-sessions-from-north-america-teched-2010/ - June 2010 Posted Melbourne cloudcamp lightning talk
/2010/06/24/melbourne-cloudcamp-2010-lightning-talk-vmware-emc/ - June 2010 Posted another Melbourne cloudcamp lightning talk
/2010/06/25/melbourne-cloudcamp-2010-lightning-talk-salesforce/ - July 2010 Posted another Melbourne cloudcamp lightning talk
/2010/07/02/melbourne-cloudcamp-2010-lightning-talk-gen-i/ - July 2010 Posted another Melbourne cloudcamp lightning talk
/2010/08/31/melbourne-cloudcamp-2010-%e2%80%93-lightning-talk-connect2field/ - July 2010 Azure presentation at Hobart.Net usergroup
/2010/07/29/community-report-hobart-net-usergroup-windows-azure-windows-phone-7-series/ - July 2010 Presentation: Azure presentation at Hobart.Net usergroup /2010/06/24/presenting-at-hobart-net-user-group-on-windows-azure-july-16/
with a summary of the presentation /2010/07/29/community-report-hobart-net-usergroup-windows-azure-windows-phone-7-series/ - August 2010 video of Brisbane lightning talk
/2010/08/31/brisbane-cloudcamp-2010-%e2%80%93-lightning-talk-connect2field/ - September 2010 posted another Brisbane lighting talk
/2010/09/22/community-report-brisbane-cloudcamp-2010-lightning-talk-fluccs/ - September 2010 posted another Brisbane lighting talk
/2010/09/22/community-report-brisbane-cloudcamp-2010-lightning-talk-fluccs/ - September 2010 Community report - Interviewed a cloud computing startup based in Sydney /2010/09/27/community-report-interview-with-orion-vm/
- September 2010 Attended and recorded Sydney cloudcamp lightning talk /2010/09/23/community-report-sydney-cloudcamp-2010-%e2%80%93-lightning-talk-netsuite/
- September 2010 posted another Sydney lighting talk
/2010/09/28/community-report-sydney-cloudcamp-2010-vadis/ - September 2010 Vic.Net - Using Azure to dynamically generate Silverlight Pivot collections.
Also got a new presenter to present for the first time ever, Ko-lin Chang. She co-presented with me and did the first ½ of the session.
(Video pending processing) - August 2010 posted another Sydney lightning talk
/2010/10/13/community-report-sydney-cloudcamp-2010-ibm/ - October 2010 posted another Sydney lightning talk
/2010/10/14/community-report-sydney-cloudcamp-2010-ultraserve/ - October 2010 posted another Sydney lightning talk
/2010/10/18/community-report-sydney-cloudcamp-2010-quest/ - October 2010 spread the word about the free beta Azure certification exams /2010/10/15/free-silverlight-azure-beta-exams/
- October 2010 who is on the Azure team in Australia
/2010/10/19/who-is-on-the-windows-azure-team-in-australia/ - October 2010 PDC liveblog of Azure announcements
/2010/10/29/my-notes-from-pdc10-day-1-keynote/ - October 2010 List of Azure sessions at PDC 2010
/2010/10/31/list-of-azure-sessions-at-pdc-2010/ - October 2010 Helped with the 2 Melbourne cloudcamp. Recorded lightning talks and participated in all the breakout discussions
- November 2010 Collection of Windows Azure samples
/2010/11/03/windows-azure-code-samples-collection/ - November 2010 posted the first lightning talk of the 2nd Melbourne cloudcamp /2010/11/01/community-report-melbourne-cloudcamp-2010-myob/
- November 2010 uploaded the 2nd lightning talk from the 2nd Melbourne cloudcamp /2010/11/03/575/
- November 2010 uploaded the 3rd lightning talk from the 2nd Melbourne cloudcamp /2010/11/04/community-report-melbourne-cloudcamp-2010-microsoft/
Other community involvement
- December 2008 Presentation: Vic.Net – WPF 3.5
/2009/04/18/slides-from-my-wpf-talk/ - December 2008 Presentation: Vic.Net – Workflow Foundation 3.5
/2009/04/18/slides-from-my-workflow-talk/ - March 2009 Created training materials and volunteered as a trainer to raise money at the WPF bushfire training weekend organised by Mahesh Krishnan
- October 2009 Presentation: Vic.Net usergroup – Databinging with the Bing maps Silverlight control
- June 2010 Helped organise the Melbourne Cloudcamp
- June 2010 Was involved in the Windows Phone 7 Bizspark camp. Helped out other participants at the event and came runner up for Beachy. Recorded the presentation
/2010/06/28/beachy-runner-up-windows-phone-7-application-at-bizspark-camp/ - June 2010 attended the Melbourne Alt.Net and recorded the event
/2010/06/29/june-2010-melbourne-alt-net-usergroup-presentation-by-simon-cuce/ - July 2010 community report of the South Australian code camp
/2010/07/29/community-report-code-camp-south-australia/ - July 2010 Community report of the Melbourne Alt.Net
/2010/07/29/community-report-melbourne-alt-net/ - July 2010 Started the community blog banter
/2010/07/30/developer-blog-banter-1-what-is-your-preferred-technology-stack/ - August 2010 Presentation: Vic.Net usergroup – Windows Phone 7 UI guidelines
(video pending. Waiting for it to be processed) - August 2010 Presentation: Melbourne Alt.Net – Lightning talk on Windows Phone 7
- August 2010 Phone 7 application featured during the Australian TechEd keynote
/2010/08/24/microsoft-teched-2010-keynote-deck-of-secrets-screenshots/ - August 2010 Community report: Attended and recorded the Melbourne SDDN presentation
/2010/09/13/community-report-melbourne-sddn-august-2010/ - October 2010 kicked off the 2nd Developer Blog Banter
/2010/10/13/developer-blog-banter-2-how-do-you-test-your-applications/ - October 2010 Community report on the MXUG
/2010/10/20/community-report-melbourne-mxug-august/ - October 2010 Presented at the Melbourne Mobile SIG and got a new presenter to present for the first time in Melbourne
/2010/10/22/im-presenting-on-windows-phone-7-at-the-melbourne-mobile-sig/