Tomislav Bronzin [RD&MVP]

Microsoft Regional Director Program - Global Impact Award 2007 Gold Medal

I have been awarded for my activities as a Microsoft Regional Director with the following award: "Global Impact Award 2007 Gold Medal"!

I would take this oportunity to say thank you (for giving me oportunity to earn such aword) to the Community in Croatia, User Group Leaders from Osijek, Rijeka, Zagreb, Split, Porec, Zadar, Dubrovnik ... as well as my Community Leasons and Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism Team (and others) from the Microsoft Croatia Office.

Thank you!

Microsoft {Open Source} Heroes Happen Here

If just happen that you would like to contribute to Open Source Community and you are developing solutions on Microsoft Platform - this is site for you: http://www.microsoft.com/opensource/heroes/default.mspx

At first I was a little bit shocked to find this URL in Google, searching for Heroes Happen Here Community Launch dedicated web sites, but when I looked more carefully - it is really Microsoft web portal with information about:

1. Open Source
2. CodePlex
3. Visual Studio Express
4. Shared Source Initiative
5. Port 25
6. etc..

What are INETA CodeCamps and how you can organize it?

CodeCamp events are structured according to the well known manifesto, which is based on 6 principles:

By and For the Developer Community
Code Camps are about the developer community at large. They are meant to be a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. Topics are always based on community interest and never determined by anyone other than the community.

Always Free
Code Camps are always free for attendees.

Community Developed Material
The success of the Code Camps is that they are based on community content. All content that is delivered is original. All presentation content must be provided completely (including code) without any restriction. If you have content you don't want to share or provide to attendees then the Code Camp is not the place for you.

No Fluff only Code
Code Camps are about showing the code. Refer to rule #1 if you have any questions on this.

Community Ownership
The most important element of the Code Camp is always the developer community. All are welcome to attend and speak and do so without expectation of payment or any other compensation other than their participation in the community.

Never occur during work hours
We need to understand that many times people can't leave work for a day or two to attend training or even seminars. The beauty of the Code Camp is that they always occur on weekends.

CodeCamp is opportunity for every developer / User Group member to participate and learn from the real life examples presented by "people from the Community, for the Community".
An excellent example of how INETA CodeCamp can be organized is the one by MS Community & INETA Chapter Croatia champion Vladan Strigo (MVP) at: http://codecamp.mscommunity.net/English/Overview.aspx

P.S. I and my young colleague Bruno Kovacic will talk at that CodeCamp about their experience in development of new generation of solutions based on Microsoft platform new features like .NET Fx 3.5, WPF, WCF, WF, LINQ ....

If you are interested in organizing CodeCamp yourself - please contact me - or even better - contact Vladan :-)

Developers Bootcamp March 2008 - Would you like to have it in your town/country?

My good colleagues: Andrej Radinger MVP & INETA Speaker and Dobrisa Adamec INETA Local Speaker and I are leading 5 day/10h a day, intensive training about Visual Studio 2008, .NET Fx 3.5, LINQ, WPF, WCF, WF, SQL Server 2008, ASP.NET 3.5/AJAX/Silverlight wrapped with introduction to MSF and ending with Team Project where all the attendees are put in 3-4 teams that are upgrading an imaginary product and must deliver it in time, within the budget and in a way that Customers (Andrej, Dobrisa and I) are happy!

More details about this training/simulation can be found here: http://www.mscommunity.net/Default.aspx?tabid=968

Feel free to contact me regarding possible engagement!