2. 2011 Executive Officers
President – David Giard
Vice-President – Kent Fehribach
Treasurer – Shelly Noll
Secretary – Gerhard Weiss
3. Volunteers
Brian Korzynski
Matt Ruma
Onorio Catenacci
Dave Kroondyk
Jamie Altizer
Sukhdev S Tur
Hilary Weaver
Randy Pagels, Microsoft guy
Jim Priore, Cinematographer
17. Discounts for our members
Manning
www.Manning.com
36% off
Enter discount code “UG367”
MSDN Magazine
20% off subscription
1 Year (12 issues) $35.00 $28.00
2 year (24 issues) $60.00 $48.00
(866)‐293‐3194
Promo code: A0EUG1
CODE Magazine
33% off subscription
1 Year (6 issues) $29.99 $19.99
www.codemag.com/subscribe/migang
18. INETA Offers
Pluralsight
Free Guest Pass into the Pluralsight On-Demand! Library
tinyurl.com/PSGuestPass
Wrox/Wiley
40% off select Visual Studio 2010/.NET 4.0 books to user group
members through 6/30.
See the list at ineta.org/offers U
Use promo code WVS10
O’Reilly
50% off ebook purchases from O’Reilly for a limited time
40% off print book purchases for user group members
Use discount code DSUG when ordering online
oreilly.com/store
Windows Azure
Free One-Month Pass
azurepassusa.cloudapp.net
19. Supporting Members
Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since
Jamie Altizer 2/8/2011 2/8/2011
Ondrej Balas 6/15/2011 6/15/2011
Mark Barkey 3/16/2011 9/15/2004
Stanislav Bashtavenko 2/16/2011 2/16/2011
Brittan Benedetto 6/18/2011 6/18/2011
DJ Bodnar 4/20/2011 4/20/2011
Kelly Brownsberger 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Onorio Catenacci 9/21/2011 11/18/2009
Jim Donahue 7/11/2011 12/16/2008
Russel Drown 9/13/2011 4/21/2010
Kent Fehribach 1/1/2011 11/19/2008
Cyndi Flaugher 2/14/2011 2/14/2011
David Giard 11/17/2010 11/19/2008
Rob Gibbens 8/17/2011 8/17/2011
Robert Griffiths 6/22/2011 6/22/2011
Edward Hanlon 6/15/2011 6/15/2011
Doug Hawes 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Jim Heruben 9/21/2011 8/20/2003
20. Supporting Members
Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since
Richard Irwin 1/17/2011 5/21/2003
Chet Kloss 06/15/2011 06/15/2011
Bruce Kohler 9/21/2011 9/21/2011
Brian Korzynski 10/20/2010 10/20/2010
Jelard Macalino 8/15/2011 8/15/2011
Bhupinder Mavi 10/1/2011 10/1/2011
Marc McVey 9/21/2011 6/17/2009
Don Miller 8/17/2011 8/17/2011
Paul Mrozowski 8/25/2011 11/18/2009
Lena Nilsson 7/20/2011 7/20/2011
Chris Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Godfrey Nolan 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Shelly Noll 1/19/2011 4/21/2010
Tim O'Connell 4/17/2011 5/16/2007
Ephraim Okoye 4/20/2011 11/16/2005
David Parshan 3/16/2011 3/16/2011
Jeff Povlov 1/19/2011 1/19/2011
Robert Powers 8/17/2011 1/20/2009
John Ptasznik 8/17/2011 8/17/2011
21. Supporting Members
Name Last Renewal Sponsoring Member Since
Mandar Purekar 3/16/2011 3/16/2011
Matt Ruma 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Harminder Sandhu 9/21/2011 9/21/2011
Rick Schummer 11/17/2010 11/17/2010
Patrick Steele 11/17/2010 11/17/2004
Lindell Stephens 7/20/2011 11/18/2009
Wasay Syed 7/20/2011 7/20/2011
Jeff Thompson 10/1/2011 10/20/2010
Sukhdev Tur 11/5/2011 11/5/2011
R.T. Vega 4/21/2011 1/18/2006
Hilary Weaver 3/16/2011 3/16/2011
Gerhard Weiss 8/17/2011 3/19/2008
Y. K. Yeung 7/20/2011 6/17/2009
Susan Yount 2/16/2011 2/16/2011
22. 2011 GANG Goals
Cultivate Ownership In Group
Continue to Attract High-Quality Speakers
Support and Connect with other Area User Groups
Average 60 attendees per meeting
Increase supporting membership by 15%
Increase Monetary Sponsorship by 10%
Make it an event
23. 2011 GANG Goals
Cultivate Ownership In Group
More volunteers than ever
New officer candidates
Codeslingers moved to Epitec
DevLunch
Social hour
More Lightning Talks
625 on Mailing List
244 Twitter followers (+84%)
276 LinkedIn Members (+71%)
24. 2011 GANG Goals
Continue to Attract High-Quality Speakers
Gary Short
Michael Eaton
Mike Amundsen
Charles Stacy Harris
Gus Issa
Jennifer Marsman
Brian Prince
Steve Bohlen
K Scott Allen
Richard Campbell
Leon Gersing
Josh Holmes,
Darrell Hawley
Bill Wagner
Richard Hale Shaw
Godfrey Nolan
Glenn Block
25. 2011 GANG Goals
Support and Connect with other Area User Groups
Incubator for Special Interest Groups
Joint meeting with Detroit Cloud Computing Group
(3/2011)
Joint meeting with AADND (1/2012)
Officers attended ~50 user group meetings
Speaker tours (G Short, M Amundsen, S Bohlen, R
Campbell)
26. 2011 GANG Goals
Average 60 attendees per meeting
Average attendance = 81
120
100
80
60
40
20
0
27. 2011 GANG Goals
Increase supporting membership by 15%
November 2010: 23 supporting members
November 2011: 53 supporting members
130% increase!
28. 2011 GANG Goals
Increase Monetary Sponsorship by 10%
Received $10,000 cash from sponsors!
No pizza in 2011!
Mega-SWAG
End-of-year Cash Reserve up 100%
Speaker sponsorships by
JetBrains, ComponentOne, DevExpress, & Telerik
29. 2011 GANG Goals
Make it an event
Big-name speakers
GANG10
Videos
Trivia
Food Drive
Membership Drive: XBox 360 giveaway
Video recordings
Greeters
31. Upcoming GANG Meetings
Date Speaker Topic
Dec No December meeting
Jan 18 TBD
Feb 15 Sarah Dutkiewicz Intro to PowerShell/Extending PowerShell
Mar 21 TBD
Apr 18 Mike Wood Azure
May 16 Steve Smith Common Design Patterns
32. Holiday Party
Copper Canyon Brewery
Thursday December 8 at 7PM
Free Appetizers
Door Prizes
Register at
http://gangholiday.eventbrite.com
33. Other User Groups
Group Date Link
Greater Lansing .Net UG 3rd Thu glugnet.org
Silverlight UG 3rd Thu tinyurl.com/MiSilverlight
Greater Detroit Cloud Computing UG 2nd Mon tinyurl.com/DetroitCloud
SharePoint User Group 2nd Tue tinyurl.com/SeMiSp
Ann Arbor .Net Developers 2nd Wed aadnd.org
Flint .Net UG 2nd Thu glugnet.org
SE Michigan SQL Server UG 2nd Thu semssug.sqlpass.org
SE Michigan Powershell Club 3rd Tue MichiganPowershell.com
NW Ohio .Net UG 3rd Tue NwNug.com
West Michigan .Net UG 4th Wed WmDotNet.org
34. Upcoming Events
What Where When Link
Livonia Nerd Lunch Aubree’s Pizzeria Nov 17 tinyurl.com/LivoniaNerds
Livonia, MI
Central Ohio DODN Columbus, OH Dec 10 cododn.wordpress.com/
CodeMash Sandusky, OH Jan 11-13 codemash.org
35. Special Interest Groups (SIG)
Functional Programming (2nd Tuesday at Epitec)
.NET Micro Framework Next Year
36. Motor City Codeslingers
• Pair Coding, Idea Exchange, Tech Book Exchange
• Wed Dec 7
6:00-9PM
• Epitec Offices,
24800 Denso Dr. Suite 150
Southfield, MI 48033
TinyUrl.com/Codeslingers
Codeslingers@migang.org
37. DevLunch
• Come meet up with other Developers in the area to
socialize and network over lunch. There will also
be a raffle which normally involves Gift Cards (to
help the winner pay for their meal), Software and
Shirts.
• Wed Dec 14, 12-1PM
(2nd Wed of each month)
• TGI Fridays
591 W Big Beaver Rd
Troy MI 48084
www.migang.org
secretary@migang.org
41. Social Hour
• Immediately following
this meeting
• Not a sponsored event!
• Maps are located on the
counter in back of the
room.
Copper Canyon Brewery and Restaurant
27522 Northwestern Hwy
42. Fabulous Prizes!
“Few things in life are more enjoyable
than giving away stuff that someone else
paid for”
-David Giard, GANG President