We've locked in late summer and early fall dates for our ArcReady, MSDN Events Unleashed, and TechNet Events Unleashed series. They will be starting roughly mid-August and running through the end of September. As of now we will be visiting all of our usual cities, and – based on feedback from people in the community – we are looking at the possibility of visiting other cities than our core 16 or 17.
ArcReadyThis is our event series for architects and the more senior developers interested in architecture or people interested in becoming architects. We predominately focus on overarching themes and topics, such as cloud computing, web site performance and scalability or – the current event series topic – architecting for the client. We explore architectural paradigms, key concepts, and patterns and how you can apply them to your business initiatives or challenges.
MSDN Events UnleashedThese events are an extension of the nationally-planned and -run MSDN Events. They focus in on one or two core development topics, digging deep into developing solutions using Silverlight and Blend, producing client applications using WPF, or how to best exploit Windows 7 in custom-developed applications. This is our bread-and-butter development event series.
TechNet Events UnleashedSimilar to our locally run developer events, these are an extension of the nationally-executed TechNet Events. These events deliver topics relevant to the IT professionals, from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to Exchange and SharePoint to System Center. These speakers are the experts, and will help IT professionals plumb the internals of our core infrastructure products and technologies.
A Request for FeedbackHere's the rub – we have not chosen topics yet. As the manager in charge of audience and community engagement in the Central Region (which involves running these events, amongst other things), I would like to hear from you.
Do you have any suggestions? Are there any topics or products you would like to see us cover? If so, leave a comment at http://twitter.com/briandmoore or on the old blog here.