On April 8, we’ll have an evening launch event of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framwork 4.
Microsoft representative Dag König from Microsoft DPE, a.k.a. @buzzfrog, will be there and gave some hints of giveaways or prizes at our last pub meeting.

There will probably be some sort of contest, so bring your laptop with latest VS2010 RC installed (official release is not until April 12)!

Time: April 8:th 17:00 (program starts at 18:00)
Place: Jayway in Malmö
Food & Beer: Yep
Signup: altdotnetoresund@live.com
There are not infinite space at Jayway, signup now (first come, first served)!

Sponsors: Jayway and Microsoft

See ya,
/Lasse

Den 25 Februari 2010, från kl 18.00, ses vi för en pub-kväll på Bishop Arms i Malmö precis mitt emot Centralstationen.

Vi kommer sannolikt att prata en hel del om kommande Visual Studio 2010 och .NET Framework 4.0 då vår kväll gästas av Dag König på Microsoft som just nu jobbar för högtryck med lanseringen av dessa nya produkter. Release av VS och .NET Framework är satt till den 12 April i Sverige så det är mycket snart.

Det är bra om ni slänger iväg ett mail och anmäler dig till altdotnetoresund@live.com så att vi kan se om vi blir många som ska få plats på Bishops Arms!

Hoppas på en trevlig kväll med mycket skratt, djupa samtal och en eller flera öl!

Väl mött,

Magnus

Our next meeting will be held in Lund and Labs2 are the sponsor this time. Please go to this link to get information about how to register:

Contact person: Andreas Hellström + 46 (0)709 412 004

The next meeting in Copenhagen will be on Thursday October 1st from 18:00 till about 21:00. The guys at BestBrains will host the evening’s meeting in their offices (for directions see below) and will provide light refreshments. Sune Gynthersen from BestBrains will start off with a presentation titled “Test-Driven Development and Beyond”, in which he will share his experiences working with and teaching about TDD. After the presentation we will continue with open space sessions about test-driven development and whatever other .Net-related subjects people feel like discussing.

Because space is limited this time, people who want to participate are required to write to altdotnetoresund@live.com.  BestBrains’ offices are located at Strandgade 4, 1401 København K, which is in Christianshavn, only 5 minutes from the Metro (Christianshavn Metro station).

If there is anything you would like to discuss at the meeting during the open space sessions, feel free to suggest it here. All input is welcome.

UPDATE: This is an example how it could work:

- Please register in comments to this post, max X persons could be fitted this time due to limited office space.

Note: Writing in English since a few participants don’t speak Swedish. Most likely most of the talks ans sessions at the event will be in Swedish/Danish/”Oresundish” and a few in English.

The Code Camp will be held in Malmo on Sunday August 30th. It will be a full day event.

All facts below but first up here is how you sign up:

All you need to do is send an email to altdotnetoresund@live.com and you are signed up for the event! You may also include appropriate information from the list below:

• Indicate if you have any allergies or other food preferences since we will try to arrange snacks, foods, drinks and coffee at the event.
• Another thing you can also input is if your firm would like to sponsor the event in any way. Coffee, snacks, beer, fruit? Surely we will need refreshments and we plan to go have a bite to eat. Sponsorship yields an honorable mention on our web site and a the event plus it is damn nice of you.*

Note 2: We will hold a raffle with prizes from the list of attendees signed up for the event. Only people who have signed up are eligible for the raffle prizes. Your company is free it raffle off a prize as part of any sponsorship!

Note 3: If you at a later date you need to cancel your participation please send us an email so we may remove you from the list.

* ALT.NET Oresund is 100% a .org solely relying in external sponsorship for the making and shaping of our .NET events in the Oresund region.

Now for the announcements:

We have a full day to fill three large rooms with what ever interesting content we like! Discussions may also spill over into the main hall outside our event rooms. This event will be filled with sharing of knowledge and learning among friends!

The facts are:

• One full day from 9am to 5pm on August 30th.
• Great facilities at Malmo University a stone’s throw from the Central Station. If you can throw a stone 600 m that is? Here is the map of the location: Malmö Högskola “Gäddan 8″, Citadellsvägen 7. You cross the road from the main entrance of the Central Station and keep to the right across the new bridge with the construction site. The target is 600m from the station straight ahead.
• We have three separate rooms to host activities.
• We make the schedule ourselves. Here is the thread at our forum for pre-planned content: forum
• Surely there will be Open Space.
• We can have some sessions if we like. There is plenty of room.
• We can set up group work activities.
• Likely we will round off the day with dinner and a pub.

Malmo University have made great effort to supply us with fabulous rooms for our Code Camp in Malmo in August. BIG thanks to Martin Wetterhorn for being so very easy to work with and eager to assist!

See you there!

Cheers,

The ALT.NET Oresund activists (through Magnus Mårtensson)

The next meeting will be held at ITU on Thursday, June 25th! The meeting will start at 18 and end around 21-21:30. We will meet at auditorium 3, which is the same place that the first meeting was held.

The last couple of meetings have consisted of one headlining presentation followed by several rounds of open space sessions. This has worked out pretty well, so we will continue this way for now.

The headlining presentation for this meeting will be about the recently released nUnit 2.5, and it will be held by me (Martin N Jensen). I will walk through the major features of nUnit, giving special attention to the newly added features, and I will also compare it to other unit testing frameworks. I will try to focus on how to utilize the features of the framework to produce clear and expressive unit tests.

After the presentation we will get to the really interesting part of the meeting: the open space sessions, so remember to come up with some interesting subjects that can make for heated dicussions! I will be fresh home from NDC 2009, the new meeting place for progressively minded software devs, so I hope to have a lot of new ideas to discuss.

I hope to see a lot of people at the meeting, and also some of the Swedes this time around!

All right, it seems as if we’ve gotten the ball rolling. We’ve had two meetings this far, and from what we can see, the interest of ALT.NET seems to be high in this corner of the world.

This time we are teaming up for a night of fun and geekery at the office of the sponsor Softhouse in Malmö. We have managed to get the brilliant Niclas Nilsson to prepare a talk for us, and naturally we’ll have some other fun stuff, like lightning talks and open space discussions. We’ll keep discussions on the topics in the google group, so if you have an idea of a great topic to talk about, don’t hesitate to drop a mail there!

How to get there
The address is Stormgatan 14, in walking distance from Malmö Central Station, for you arriving by train. If you’re not sure exactly where it is, search for the address at hitta.se. Get in the front door, in the elevators directly in the front of you and go to the 5th floor. If there are any problems with you coming in, call +46 (0)70-6643977 and we’ll let you in.

How to register
Since there will be some food, we ask you to register by sending an email to altdotnetoresund@live.com to let us know you’re coming, and if you have any special wishes for food due to allergies or other preferences, please state it in that e-mail.

When
The meeting will be held Monday April 27. We’ll start at 18.00 and it will end around 21-ish.

Any changes to the schedule will primarily be communicated via the google group. If you’re not already a member there, we recommend that you join.

We have finally found a good place in Copenhagen to have the next meeting! The IT University of Copenhagen have been so kind as to let us borrow an auditorium on Tuesday the 24th of March. The auditorium is fairly large, so we should have room for a good number of participants. The meeting will start at 18 and end at 21.

The programme is not entirely decided yet, but we’re aiming at having a series of lightning talks followed by an open space session, so there will be good opportunities for active participation. If you have an interesting subject and would like to do a lightning talk, please write to the google group. We will also have a small introduction to Alt.Net Oresund, so that new participants can get an idea of what it’s all about.

How to get there
ITU is pretty easy to get to from both the Sweden and of course the Copenhagen side. The easiest way to get there for most people will be to take the metro to Islands Brygge station and walk from there. There is a good explanation of how to get there and a link to a map on ITU’s site.

How to register
We only ask participants to register if we have a very limited number of seats, and we don’t know yet exactly how many we have room for, so more on this might follow. However, if you haven’t joined the Alt.Net Oresund google group yet, please do that so we can at least get an estimate of how many show up. The group is our main channel of communication, so any minor updates and news are likely to be only posted there. We also use the group to discuss various Alt.Net-related subjects and continue discussions from the meetings.

When
On Tuesday 24th of March from 18 to 21.

Since we have no sponsors as such this time there will be no free food and drinks :-(, so it might be a good idea to grab a sandwich before you show up.

Ok, if you have any questions please post them on the group and we will try to answer as quickly as possible.

Our first meeting is rapidly approaching! Sign up for it already today!

The speaker for the evening is none less than Johan Lindfors of Microsoft Sweden! The sponsor for the event Dotway bids you welcome to a pleasant and interesting evening (naturally free of charge).

We will start up around 17.00 with a bite to eat and drink where we will also have a brief presentation of what ALT.NET is.

Johan will start at around 18.00 and go on for about two hours. He will run through several of the new technologies presented at Microsoft PDC in October. Among other things he will cover the new major initiative Windows Azure.

After Johan is done talking and we have asked all the questions we are planning to continue for those who wish with interesting discussions in Open Space format. Any one may join in and suggest precisely the technical subject you wish from what interests you at the moment.

How to register: Send an email to altdotnetoresund@live.com and let us know you’re coming. It is great if you inform us of any particular food preferences or allergies and in order for us to plan for number of plates and attendees we wish for you to register before 27/1, please!

Where is it: The event takes place in Malmö at Dotways office at Hans Michelsensgatan 9, 7 vån, 211 20 Malmö (this is situated apx 5 min walk from Malmö Central Station and is easy to find. See here for a map)

When: On Thursday 29 of January from 17.00 (Johan starts at 18.00)

See you there!

Magnus Mårtensson on behalf of ALT.NET Oresund and the sponsor for the evening Dotway