Community Calender

FCIH bloggers started a public calendar under the name: Community Events Calendar. It will be focused mainly on the Egyptian IT Community. A glimpse of the calendar is here below:

Also you can subscribe to calendar in many other ways, for eg the HTML version here:

http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=a4lgh95ric33n590179795q0k4%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Africa/Cairo

Or in iCal format that can be feed to Outlook or Apple iCal, etc :

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/a4lgh95ric33n590179795q0k4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Also, as XML feed:

http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/a4lgh95ric33n590179795q0k4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic

The calendar will include offline IT community Events held around Egypt. Also, online events both from Egypt (hopefully there will be, someday ) & around the world.

Please, feel free to contact us (FCIH bloggers) or comment on this post, below, notifying us of events that need to be added to the calendar. Also, any ideas to improve it are much appreciated

dotNetWork.org April09 gathering

First thing to say, please don’t mix this event with Microsoft Innovation day organized by MSFT jointly with almost every Egyptian UGs.. I’ll be blogging about that later..

This month we are a bit earlier than usual (or should I say we are late for last month gathering? ).. The gathering will be on April 18th (next Saturday)..

Concerning the venue, this gathering we will try a new thing, we will hold it at Fridays, City Stars.. This is a bit limiting so this time our maximum count of attendees will be around 60.. Also there’s a special-priced menu for DNW.. So if (only if) you’re interested & your schedule is free next Saturday from 10:00-13:00.. Please register..

So to know if you’re interested The speakers are

Hossam Kamel
Senior Software Engineer – ESRI, Northeast Africa

Mohamed Samir
Technical Lead – Timeline Interactive, Inc.

Concerning the agenda:

10:15 – 11:15	Testing automation using VSTS 2008 (for Dev & QC): Lots of demos for both developers & testers..So Testing Engineers, please join us!!	Hosam Kamel
11:45 – 12:45	“CellFactor®: Psychokinetic Wars”, challenges and achievements: CellFactor is first-person multiplayer shooter game, developed for  PS3 and XBOX 360 by a mostly-Egyptian team.	Mohamed Samir

Btw, Guys, just to make sure it won’t be understood wrong (again) Attendees will be paying for their own meals.. DNW is only organising the event

For more info, updates, registration
http://dnkapril-emailinvite.eventbrite.com/
You can, Also, find the menu there

There’s also a Facebook event but registration only counts on through eventbrite..
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=68200144013

Other helpful links:

Yahoo!Group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetworkorg/

Facebook Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/netWorkorg/13135685545

Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2409268236

PS: I’ll update the post with the poster as soon as it’s ready.. isA

EgySUG Launch

Egypt SharePoint user group real launch (after a couple of sessions with DNW) is expected to be next Thursday, isA.. It will be featuring Joel Oleson. The session title is “10 Steps to Successful Deployments“.. For more info, check the UG calendar..

Concerning the time & place:
18:30-21:00 @ Microsoft-Egypt, Smart Village..

Transportation will be available from in front of Masbiro mall beside Ramses Hilton, Abdel Moneim Raid Square starting from 17:15-17:30..

Attendance is free as usual.. but registration is needed here

For any further inquiries call Ebeid Soliman: 010 5064 838

PS. : Sorry for the late notice

CodeCamp’09 Venue Confirmed!!

CodeCamp’09 venue will be BUE (The British University in Egypt) Campus, Cairo-Suez Desert Road, El-Sherouk City. There will be buses departing from several locations to CodeCamp. These locations will be announced soon, isA.

Looking forward to seeing you there!!

CodeCamp’09 Agenda published!!

For those who aren’t subscribed to the event updates, the agenda is published on the event page cc.dotnetwork.org (if it’s not working you might use this url directly codecamp09.eventbrite.com) please remember to register on the page, the seats might become limted .. The page has a RSS feed for the event updates, too.

For now, the venue is BUE, but it’s not yet confirmed.. I’ll keep you updated with more news to come, isA..

dotNetWork.org CodeCamp’09

This time, dotNetwork is preparing for a “bigger-than-the-usual-gatherings” event.This is supposed to be dotNetwork’s first major Event, with around 18 sessions, 3 tracks, split over 2 days, which are intended to be on February 19th, 20th, isA.

The agenda has a wide range of topics covering Azure, Velocity, Scrum, BizTalk, SharePoint, C# 4, VS2010, SilverLight, & many other topics..

Speakers list include Stephen Forte, Remi Caron, Marianne Van Wanrooij, Mohamed Meligy, Mohamed  Samy, Yasser Makram, Mohammad Yousry, Hossam Kamel.

I’ll be updating you with more soon, but for now check the event page here:
http://codecamp09.eventbrite.com/
& subscribe to its feeds for updates, also check the the Facebook event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=63066020983

This is not yet a formal announcement, so I’ll be updating you with any news here, too.. so keep tuned..

dotNetWork.org Jan’09 gathering

Date:

Saturday, January 24th 2009,
12:00 – 16:30

Attendance is FREE =)

Speakers

Mohmaed Meshref

SDT | SQL Server Team

Microsoft

Agenda

Inside SQL Server Engine!
Agenda:
12:00 – 14:00
SQL Server Architecture
◦ Protocols
◦ Relational Engine
◦ Storage Engine
◦ SQL OS
◦ Memory

14:30-16:30
Query Processing
◦ Iterators
◦ Rows Access Methods
◦ Joins
◦ Aggregation

Location:

Canadian International College, @ “El-Tagamo3 El-5ames”

Buses will be available at: Nady El-Sekka (11:00 AM – 11:30 AM)
Please be there before 11:30 coz we will leave on time..

For those who wanna keep tuned with further news about this event & other upcoming events of the dotnetwork.org user group, please check the following links:

Yahoo!Group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetworkorg/

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=60432032253
You’d better join the above event if you have a facebook account so we can roughly estimate the attendees count..

Facebook Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/netWorkorg/13135685545

Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2409268236

Requirements Engineering – FCIH Microsoft Club

	Microsoft-Club Helwan Requirements Engineering session JOIN US FOR THIS EXCITING EVENT Let’s start, to share our knowledge and find ways to make a difference. Let’s Start with our First Session with, “Requirements Engineering session” (E.g. RE is the branch of software engineering concerned with the real-world goals for functions of, and constraints on software systems). Come and join us this event @ FCI-H. Agenda: · Who Am I; a programmer or developer or…? · What and Why of Analysis..!!! · The “Others” needs · Requirements Management · Requirements Elicitation · Requirements Analysis · Requirements Communication Speaker’s Bios: Marwan Hamad is currently System Analyst in Link Development. In 2004, He started the journey of analysis in ITWorx while he had the honor of working in the enterprise sales field at Microsoft Egypt. Marwan observed the best practice of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) by providing dynamic workflow based on strategic objectives to Vodafone Egypt and New Horizons. Marwan was honored from the Ministry of Youth in 2004 for transferring European Project Management practices to the Egyptian NGO’s. Marwan studied Applied Business Computing in the University of Sunderland, UK. DON’T MISS OUT 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Wednesday, December 17, 2008 FCIH main campus, Hall 7 (beside the mosque, 2nd floor) Faculty of Computers & Information – Helwan University Hope to see you there! Microsoft Club – Helwan Referral Code: Club08 Contact us: msp-helwan@student-partners.com P. S. RE session mainly for all students, everyone is welcomed. P. S. If you know anyone else who’d enjoy this event, please forward this email to them now.

DotNetWork.org Dec-08 Gathering

Date:

Saturday, December 27th 2008,
12:00 – 16:30

Attendance is FREE =)

Speaker:

Omar Besiso
Senior Architect – DataCom, Sydney, Australia.

http://omarbesiso.spaces.live.com

Agenda:

12:00 – 14:00
Building scalable and functional software using dependency and policy injection (Level 200)

14:30 – 16:30
Open Session

Brief (for the open session):

AOP, DDD, TDD, UDD, OO, SilverLight, Azure, DI, IOC, MEF, The Cloud….etc. Tired of all the new hype around a heap of technologies and paradigms? Not sure about your approach in 2009? Come and have a friendly chat with Omar Besiso, a veteran Microsoft architect who lives his life around Microsoft technologies and all their headaches. Omar will be describing the future trends and how as developers and architects design patterns and futuristic architecture paradigms will be used. Whether you’re architecting for retail, corporate, the cloud or just for yourself, this will be your guide into the 2009-2010 explosive years. See you there!

Location:

Canadian International College, @ “El-Tagamo3 El-5ames”

Buses will be available at: Nady El-Sekka (11:00 AM – 11:30 AM)
Please be there before 11:30 coz we will leave on time..

For those who wanna keep tuned with further news about this event & other upcoming events of the dotnetwork.org user group, please check the following links:

Yahoo!Group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetworkorg/

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=57316086432
You’d better join the above event if you have a facebook account so we can roughly estimate the attendees count..

Facebook Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/netWorkorg/13135685545

Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2409268236

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions..
See u on the gathering

dotNetWork.org 9th gathering

Date:

Saturday, November 29th 2008,
12:00 – 16:00

Attendance is FREE =)

Note:
Again (like the last 2 gathering), we are having 2 parallel tracks, but this time we have 4 sessions presented by 4 different speakers.. Waiting for your feed-back about that..

Speakers:

Mohamed Ahmed Meligy
Senior Software Developer, Raya-Software.

Mostafa Mourad
Team Leader, ITWorx.

Hossam El-Deen M. Barakat
Senior Software Developer, Raya-Software.

Hossam Kamel
Senior Software Engineer, ITWorx.

Agenda:

12:00 – 14:00	Applying Domain Driven Design on ASP.NET MVC by Mohamed Meligy.	Information Architecture by Mostafa Mourad.
14:30 – 16:30	IIS 7.0 by Hosam Kamel.	BizTalk-SharePoint Integration by Hossam El-Deen M. Barakat.

Location:

Canadian International College, @ “El-Tagamo3 El-5ames”

Buses will be available at: Nady El-Sekka (11:00 AM – 11:30 AM)
Please be there before 11:30 coz we will leave on time..

For those who wanna keep tuned with further news about this event & other upcoming events of the dotnetwork.org user group, please check the following links:

Yahoo!Group:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dotnetworkorg/

Facebook Event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=32256529483
You’d better join the above event if you have a facebook account so we can roughly estimate the attendees count..

Facebook Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/netWorkorg/13135685545

Facebook Group:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2409268236

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any further questions..
See u on the gathering