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Welcome to Southwest Michigan's premiere developer's group, MDSM - a community for developers, by developers.

As the only Kalamazoo .Net User Group, our mission is to strengthen Southwest Michigan's hold on technology professionals through networking, knowledge share, and camaraderie.

Bring your laptop, bring your knowledge, and join us for refreshments and technical discussion at our next meeting.

- Mike Eaton & Mark Gilbert
  MDSM Coordinators

Next Meeting: March 25, 2010
Summary: Jeff Blankenburg brings us highlights from the MIX 2010 Conference, being held March 15-17 in Las Vegas, NV.

Meeting Room
The meeting will be held in room E-121 of the College of Engineering Building on WMU's Parkview Campus (driving directions). The building is organized into 7 sections, lettered A-G, where Section A is closest to US-131 and Section D is the central hub. The meeting room is on the the first floor of section E. We recommend parking in the East ramp behind the building.

Single-event parking tags are required for the ramps behind the building, and will be available for anyone who needs one (please park and see Mark Gilbert or Mike Eaton). Please let us know in your RSVP if you will require one so we can get an accurate count.

Jeff Blankenburg is a Developer Evangelist for the Microsoft Corporation. Over the past 10 years, Jeff has successfully implemented his technology expertise in numerous industries including retail, education, and healthcare. Jeff has exceptional proficiency in user-interface design, Web Standards, and web application development. He is a contributor to the O'Reilly title Windows Developer Power Tools on the subject of code validation services. Jeff is also an organizer of the CodeMash conference. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio.