Start the year off with some Silverlight fun in this exciting Silverlight Contest that our friends from the Silverlightshow.net have prepared: "Silverlight: Write and Win!" Holiday Edition contest. What you have to do is to write a cool article and submit it at www.SilverlightShow.net or editorial@silverlightshow.net. 
This time all the submittals will be judged by jury with members: Adam Kinney, Chris Anderson, Dave Campbell, Emil Stoychev , Michael Sync, Shawn Wildermuth and Tim Heuer.

But what is Christmas without presents? The first three articles will be awarded with cool prizes: Telerik Premium Collection for .NET, ComponentOne Studio for Silverlight, Divelements SandDock for Silverlight, Amazon Gift certificate.

We, from the  INETA Board just can but empower these kind of things that promote to share, to have fun and to learn new and exciting new technologies.

During this Tech Ed Developers 2008, we are collecting your opinion about INETA Europe services (actual and future). So please if you have only 5 minutes, we are very interested in having your opinion about this. You are part of the community too, and we are just listening.

Click Here to take survey

Join us in OUR Networking party, Party with Jose, on 13th. November, 7pm-10pm.
Please take a look at the Party Web and register now! Click here to view the invitation. You can REGISTER BRINGING A BUSINESS CARD TO OUR BOOTH in Tech.Ed)

INETA's Networking party - Party with Jose: Tech Ed 2008 Edition.

What: INETA's Networking party - Party with Jose

When: November 13th, 2008, 7pm - 10pm

Where: Café Noir C/plató 15 (click here to see how to get there)

08006 Barcelona, Spain (click here to download a document about the best options to get there)

Cost: 1 business card (A Must!). This will get you in the door and register you for the grand prize drawings.

• Free to attend
• Free fingerfood
• Free drink
• Free swag

As you will probably have already guessed, this networking event is very similar to partywithpalermo.com. In fact this is made in purpose, we have really tried to bring the original partywithpalermo.com networking parties to Europe and to TechEd Developers.

To say we have had his guidance and support even he has been at the middle of two "parties with palermo". Thanks Jeffrey!!

Sponsors:

You asked for it. We delivered it! We have added again three new speakers to our INETA Europe Speakers bureau. We have good news if you are interested in WPF, Silverlight etc. Now you can choose from two extra speakers: Jose Latorre Milas and Thomas Lebrun. Both are Microsoft MVP and experts on their topics. If you are interested in the more architectual and enterprise side of software development we can recommend Pieter de Bruin. He is a frequent speaker on major Microsoft events.

Jose Luis Latorre Milas
Jose is INETA VP of Events & Sponsorship, Microsoft MVP and MCTS, he has been (and still is) a .NET Architect and developer for years and now he is the Technical Director of the IN2 Microsoft Division
He is passionate about development technology, new interfaces, 3D, and multi core development. He has passion with WPF, Silverlight as he was with JavaScript and HTML back in 2001. As a community involved person, he has helped pushing this technology with the organization and management of 2008-2009 European Silverlight Challenge, run over all European countries which had huge success, finally sending 4 winners to the MIX. He is also a coach and trainer for some years and a known local speaker. He also has helped founding some user groups at Spain, including the Barcelona User Group, which he happens to lead and some others as the mobility user group between others. He also published multiple articles in different .NET magazines, as DotNetMania, a leading Technical Spanish magazine. He also helped create some video training for Silverlight technology and is creating some webcasts for MSDN.
 
Thomas Lebrun
Thomas LEBRUN is a consultant and trainer (MCT) at Winwise in Paris (France). He started to use .NET in 2002, in particular C# language. He is a Client Application Development MVP since 2007. Thomas' main role is architect on Smart Client technologies: WPF, Silverlight, etc.. He speaks at some conferences for Winwise or Microsoft (TechDays), mainly about Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight and VSTO (Office Development). Thomas blogs at http://blogs.codes-sources.com/tom (fr). His blog mainly devotes itself to Windows Presentation Foundation & Silverlight. He writes articles for http://www.techheadbrothers.com (fr), http://ww.developpez.com (fr) and on a French magazine “Programmez”.

Pieter de Bruin
Pieter de Bruin helps enterprise customers to get the most out of their business applications based on the Microsoft platform. He started his career in 2000 focussing on custom development in Microsoft .NET. In 2004 he joined Avanade, an Accenture and Microsoft joint-venture, where he has been designing solutions and advising organisations in streamlining custom development and integrating systems. He is an early adopter of all Microsoft development products specifically for application lifecycle and service orientation, being .NET Framework, Visual Studio (Team System), SQL Server and BizTalk Server. Next to this consulting role he is solution manager and evangelist to increase awareness and adoption of Microsoft solutions. Pieter publishes in .NET Magazine, Software Release Magazine and online at MSDN and he frequently presents at Microsoft conferences, training companies and Microsoft user groups. 

BTW... you can request them from here!

Andre Obelink
VP Speakers Bureau – INETA Europe