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Summary of December Meetup (sorry about the lateness)
- 20 people attended - New faces were introduced (lots of new memebers, and quite a few repeat members too!) - Howard Carson gave a detailed and informative discussion on Writing for the web. Thanks Howard! - $60.00 was taken in for book sales and member donations (see Wendy's previous post detailing the funds we've collected to date!!) - Lots of mingling and new faces... Always an exciting time! |
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January 2006 Minutes:
Introduction New business - Group website discussion: Mambo was decided on, and we formally announced the site design contest for our very own webcentrictoronto.org; submissions sent to Cory Koski; contest will run for 1 month; prize will be determined Introduced new faces WOWPad (Microthin.com) mousepad technology introduced by Howard Carson Ask the expert - Howard gave away a bunch of the excellent mousepads as prizes to people who asked questions, or answered a skill-testing question Roundtable Predictions 2006 and Web 2.0 - A very lively and contagious discussion! 20 people attended $40 collected |
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Meetup Minutes
February 8th, 2006 - Introduction - New faces - lots of new faces! Thanks for coming out! - Up and coming speakers: March - Curt Skene - www.aahhah.com The Best Business Session You Ever Slept Through April - Brent Ashley - Ashley IT - www.ashleyit.com The AJAX Experience May or June - Jerome Carron - Senior Developer Evangelist/Microsoft Canada - msdn.microsoft.com/canada Talk about the new Windows Presentation Foundation and how it affects web development - Reminder about the WebCentric Toronto website skin contest - www.webcentrictoronto.org - Ask The Expert - Open Discussion Howard Carson engaged us in a lively discussion on the impact of Buzz marketing and how affects consumer mindset - Show off your stuff - Donations collected: $47.60 - Members Attended: 30 |
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Meetup Minutes
March 8th, 2006 - Introduction - New faces - lots of new faces! Thanks for coming out! - Announcements: -- April is "Bring a friend" month... so tell a friend and bring them along for a great time! -- Up and coming speakers: --- April - Brent Ashley - Ashley IT - www.ashleyit.com - The AJAX Experience --- May or June - Jerome Carron - Senior Developer Evangelist/Microsoft Canada - http://msdn.microsoft...  - He will be discussing the latest products/technologies introduced by Microsoft that will impact web developers -- Reminder about the WebCentric Toronto website skin contest - www.webcentrictoronto.org - we need 3 more submissions to start the judging! - "News You Can Use" ? The Latest in Tech with Howard Carson - Ask The Expert - No question asked this month - Round Table ? "The Best Business Session You have Ever Slept Through" by Kurt Skeene of www.aahhah.com -- lively presenation with a lot of good ideas shared to the group... thank you very much Kurt! - Door prizes! -- winner - Cory Koski - "Master the Marketplace Workbook" -- winner - Jason Belley - "No Nonsense XML Web Development with PHP" donated byt SitePoint.com - Show off your stuff - Donations collected: $71.00 collected - Members Attended: 30 |
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TREASURER'S REPORT
March 2006 BANK $259.62 . . . . PREVIOUS BANK BALANCE (from Dec/05) ...-10.73 . . . . Payment to Meetup for Jan/06 ($9.00US) ..+40.00 . . . . Donations from Jan/06 meeting ....+0.01 . . . . Bank Interest for Jan/06 ...-10.55 . . . . Payment to Meetup for Feb/06 ($9.00US) ..+47.60 . . . . Donations from Feb/06 meeting ....+0.01 . . . . Bank Interest for Feb/06 ...-10.49 . . . . Payment to Meetup for Mar/06 ($9.00US) ..+71.00 . . . . Donations from Mar/06 meeting (to be deposited) -------------------------------------- -----------------------$386.47 . . . . TOTAL PAYPAL $..30.52 . . . . CURRENT PAYPAL BALANCE (unchanged since Dec/05) TOTAL $416.99 . . . . CURRENT TOTAL FUNDS for WebCentricToronto Thank you to everyone for helping! Wendy Grand Poohbah of the Moolah |
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APRIL MINUTES - WEDNESDAY April 12th, 2005
============================ ======= People that attended: 46 Thanks to all the new faces that came out to the meetup! We're excited to be able to share all of our collective experiences with each other, and get to know new people! We set a new record! Introductions Paul again introduced the meetup group, it's history and it's goals. New Faces There were so many new people, we had to forego the new introductions this month. "News You Can Use" ? The Latest in Tech with Howard Carson Again, thank you Howard for your relevant perspective on current internet and technology news. WebCentric Toronto skin design contest Congratulations to Cary Stein for winning the contest with his skin design, and winning his 2GB iPod Nano! Thanks again to Howard Carson of Kickstart News for the generous donation of the prize! Group Presentation - Brent Ashley - Ashley IT - www.ashleyit.com - "The AJAX Experience" Brent Ashley is arguably one of the pioneers of Remote Scripting with JavaScript since 1999, and after many years, AJAX and the ideas he's been promoting finally have taken root and sprouted in the web industry. Brent gave an informative talk on AJAX, where we got to understand the basic precepts of the technology and approaches to implementing it. Thanks again Brent! Book Raffle "AJAX Patterns and Best Practices" by Christian Gross was generously donated by Apress Publishers from Berkley, California was donated for our raffle. Kevin Legault won this great book! Congrats! Mingle/Network Lots of mingling and networking. Monies collected: $40 |
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MAY MINUTES - WEDNESDAY May 10th, 2005
=============================== People attended: 20 Introductions Paul introduced the meetup group, it's history and it's goals. New Faces There were some new faces againk, so thanks to all that introduced themselves! "News You Can Use" ? The Latest in Tech with Howard Carson Thank you Howard for your relevant perspective on current internet and technology news. Google - Click-fraud Sanford Wallace - Spam King - fined $4M Tool's new release - unique content in their CD release WebCentric Toronto skin design contest Cary Stein was presented his new 2GB iPod Nano for winning the contest! Thanks again to Howard Carson of Kickstart News for the generous donation of the prize! General Discussion Paul and Howard led a lively discussion discussing many aspects of the web. Many people contributed to the excellent group discussion, and many offered up interesting ideas, good questions, and insightful answers that gave everyone in attendence new perspectives on our industry. Thank you to everyone who participated! Door Prizes Kickstart News was generous enough to give us 3 books for door prizes. Thanks Howard! Mingle/Network Lots of mingling and networking. Monies collected: $42 |
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June MINUTES - WEDNESDAY June 14th, 2005
=============================== People attended: 15 Introductions Paul was under the weather this month, so our meeting was led by Howard Carson, assisted by Cory Koski. New Faces There were some new faces, so thanks to all the new members that attended. "News You Can Use" ? The Latest in Tech with Howard Carson/General Discussion Howard started us off with a discussion on spammers and their strong-arm tactics against businesses to continue their activities. Our discussion migrated into the general discussion by talking about the recent activies of the spammer/hacker "pharma", to discussing the security of our operating systems. Book Auction There were a number of books dontated by KickstartNews.com that were snatched up in our book auction announced last month. There still a few titles left, and new titles are coming in July! This month featured a number of Java books by top tech publishers, and July's books should include more books that cover web server scripting. Mingle/Network Lots of mingling and networking. Monies collected: $35 |
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July MINUTES - WEDNESDAY July 12th, 2005
=============================== People attended: 24 Introductions We were in full force this month with Paul back in the saddle. Paul announced that we are still working hard to collect enough monies to buy a new projector for the group. Our funds are increasing but we still need the support of the members. Also, Techspertise is officially sponsoring our groups Internet presence. Techspertise is responsible for the anual domain registration fees as well as contributing one of their comprehensive hosting packages worth 240 US dollars per year. Thank you www.Techspertise.com! New Faces There were a number of new faces, so thanks to all the new members that attended. General Discussion Paul briefly the idea of how to get clients to understand the power of the web. "News You Can Use" The Latest in Tech with Howard Carson Howard began the discussion of the evening talking about the net neutrality. It was evident that there are different definitions of net neutrality within the group, but we all agreed that this is an important topic that shouldn't be ignored. Presentation We would like to thank Sofia Ganni for conducting a Photoshop tutorial on panoramic photo stitching. I know many of our members learned a few tricks and things about Photoshop they had never seen before. Mingling and Networking Monies collected: $37 |
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