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Welcome to the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group!
The Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (BASPUG) was founded to bring together like minds to network and share their
experiences, triumphs, and tribulations around Microsoft SharePoint, to provide a community platform
for Boston area SharePoint users, administrators, developers, architects, of all experience levels,
even brand new to SharePoint, to share their knowledge with the community.
We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Cambridge, MA.
SUSTENANCE
Food will be graciously provided by our meeting sponsors. The meetings will also not stop to a dead halt at 8pm, that is just when we need to be out of the facility. After the user group meetings, we will most likely announce and adjourn to a local watering hole, to continue on our discussions and networking, which may or may not be sponsored.
RAFFLE PRIZESWe will be handing out raffle tickets at the BASPUG meetings (when we have items to raffle that is!). Black Blade Associates will be raffling off a license, valued at $2000 for their SharePoint Zip product, at each and every meeting of the BASPUG! Lightning Tools will also be raffling off licenses for their BCS Meta Man product at each meeting ($1200 value). We will also be working with some publishers as well to extend discounts, be able to raffle off free books, and more, to the members of the BASPUG.
FREQUENCY
The BASPUG will meet on the 2nd Wednesday of every month, from 6pm to 8pm EST, starting May 12th, 2010.
TWITTER
Follow news about the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group on twitter by following us @BASPUG, and by using the hashtag #BASPUG
MEET THE ORGANIZERS...
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Geoff Varosky
Geoff Varosky is the Director of Development and Evangelism for Jornata (www.jornata.com), a Microsoft Gold Partner focusing on SharePoint solutions based out of Boston, MA. He has been architecting and developing web based applications for over 13 years, and has been working with SharePoint for the past 6 years. Geoff is an active member of the SharePoint community, Co-Founder and Co-Organizer of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (www.bostonsharepointug.org), co-organizer for SharePoint Saturday Boston (www.sharepointsaturday.org/boston) and speaks regularly at SharePoint events and user groups.
Blog: http://www.geoffvarosky.com
Twitter: @gvaro
Company: Jornata |
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Eugene Rosenfeld
Eugene Rosenfeld is the CTO of Black Blade Associates Inc., and Microsoft MVP awardee. He started his IT career as a database programmer and soon moved into enterprise application integration (EAI) and portal systems. Eugene holds a strong belief that all systems should have the innate ability to intelligently communicate with one another. Most recently he has been heavily involved with distributed systems architecture, Services Oriented Architected (SOA), peer-to-peer systems, and cloud computing.
Eugene believes that in order to develop the best applications of tomorrow, it is necessary to encourage developers to think differently about how systems should interact with users and other systems today. Eugene also holds a strong belief in mentoring others. He has put these beliefs into practice through many years of consulting services, developer training, community involvement, and ultimately by co-founding Black Blade. Eugene spends his time developing innovative SharePoint products and utilities, like the docBlock Ascend, which brings virtual documents to the SharePoint platform and incorporates Eugene’s interests in distributed systems, SOA, peer-to-peer systems. Eugene also maintains his blog, "Things that Should be Easy". Check it out for tips that may make your current project a little easier.
Blog: http://thingsthatshouldbeeasy.blogspot.com
Twitter: @erosen03
Company: Black Blade Associates |
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Ryan Tacy
Ryan is a Storage Specialist for HP, and has worked in the data storage industry since 2003. He has broad experience in developing and deploying multi-vendor digital-asset storage, protection and management solutions for mid-market and enterprise customers. He has held both sales and technical roles, as a Solutions Architect and Systems Engineer for New England VARs and Systems Integrators. Prior to joining HP in October of 2010, he held a senior sales role for a leading SharePoint ISV, where he helped Fortune 500 companies architect and deploy infrastructure management solutions for some of the world’s largest SharePoint deployments.
Ryan plays an active role the technical community as co-founder and co-organizer of the Boston Area SharePoint Users Group, and serves on the Board of Directors of the non-profit Boston User Groups. His expertise and contributions to the SharePoint community have earned him multiple speaking engagements at technical conferences, symposiums, and user groups throughout North America.
Twitter: @rtacy101
Company: Hewlett-Packard
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Talbott Crowell
Talbott is a Solution Architect at ThirdM who designs and builds enterprise applications with a focus on Microsoft technologies including SharePoint (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007, and SharePoint 2010), BizTalk Server, and the .NET framework. He has special interest in manycore solutions and spends time investigating technologies such as F# and the Task Parallel Library built into .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010. Talbott and his company deliver solutions and services to large and small companies including Fortune 500. Talbott also assists companies with the development process by using a blend of Agile and traditional methodologies, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team System, Scrum, Test Driven Development (TDD), performance testing, and other proven tools and practices. Talbott is a group lead of the F# User Group http://fsug.org.
Blog: http://talbottc.spaces.live.com
Twitter: @talbott
Company: Third Millennium
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Dan Diachenko
Dan Diachenko manages the US operation for Baufest (www.baufest.com) and has been working in the global IT industry since 2004. Previously based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, he works closely with members of the SharePoint community and his Argentine based team to align business needs with technology solutions. He is an active member of BASPUG, IAMCP (Int´l Association of Microsoft Channel Partners), and NEECOM (New England Electronic Commerce User´s Group).
Dan is fluent in Spanish and holds an MBA from the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires.
Twitter: @BaufestUSA
Company: Baufest |
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