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Just a quick update in case you haven’t been following my recent updates (@Meligy) or @EgyGeeks news on twitter…

This week #EgyGeeks will have a very interesting session, about Continuous Integration in .NET. The session will be given by @AmrEldib who is a really brilliant and clever guy from what I see on twitter and some mailing groups.

Also, the open talk will be about BI, mainly in SQL Server.

The gathering is going to start in less than 3 HOURS. 11:59 PM CAIRO TIME (GMT+2) TODAY.

You can join by clicking the link that will pop up on @EgyGeeks (and @Meligy) by the time of gathering.

Waiting for the fun to come…

Hello everybody,
Thanks a lot to those who attended the second planned EgyGeeks gathering. The open talk especially was really nice and we enjoyed how interactive it was.

The Survey

Based on your feedback in the open talk part, Ramy collected your suggestions for the next gathering in one list and put this survey:

http://twtpoll.com/5a15gt

You can choose one topic from open talk suggestions, or suggest a new one.
You can also choose the level you want the session to be.
You can even choose whether you want the gathering to be a session only, an open talk only, or both.

Call For Speakers

Moreover, if you are interested in delivering a session yourself not just attend one, answer the last question in the survey with your email and session details.
We’re looking for more speakers in the next gatherings…

Go ahead, put your opinions. Help shape the next gathering :)
http://twtpoll.com/5a15gt

* P.S.

We’ll also appreciate you sharing the link to get more results.

Just wanted to give you a quick update on our next gathering today.

We’ll have the meeting in the same time like last week.

Today, Friday, April 16, at 11:59 PM.

The gathering will have the same style as the last one:

- The first 30 minutes will be a session: Jquery for ASP.NET Developers, by me

- The following 30 minutes will be an open talk, mainly around: Visual Studio 2010 Enhancements

So far we agreed to have the gathering the same way like last week (Using WEBEX website).

We’ll send you the URL by the exact time or the gathering, via the newly created EgyGeeks twitter account.

@EgyGeeks

Also, follow this account for all upcoming gatherings’ news and announcements.

Name Change: #EgyGeeks

Our first meeting on Friday, or technically the first hours of Saturday (starting 12 AM), we found technical difficulties in establishing the conversation on Skype, with around 25 attendees, and the need to share desktop view with the entire group, for the first part of the gathering (Ayman’s session).

That’s why we decided we may have rushed it by including the word “Skype” in the name. I don’t know why we needed a name and all that anyway, because the idea is simply some friends who have common interests (all do .NET related stuff) that meet together online weekly talking about their common interests.

Methods of Communication

For twitter, since this gathering used another tool “webex” for conferencing, and we haven’t determined yet how we’ll manage the next gathering, we changed the twitter hash tag to just “#EgyGeeks”.

Also, we created a Google group to enable us to email everybody when we settle on how the next gathering will be. The group has the same name”EgyGeeks”