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Food, Folks and Tech: A community being socially responsible

March 12th, 2009

What do you get when you bring a bunch of technical people together in a community setting to learn about technology and ask them to bring food for charity? Well, I hope to see more food than we can carry!

In an effort of community interest, good will, and what I rightly see as a good Experiment at this point, this month (March 19th) CWUG will involve not only a brown bag lunch, but also a request to bring unopened items to donate to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

Honestly, it sounds like an amazing idea, one of which I think every user group, or even “Meet Up” and “Tweet Up” in Chicagoland and beyond should start doing on a regular basis – What better way to bring community together than by helping build out a part of community which is in need.

The agenda for next week’s CWUG is as follows:

Bring an item for the Pot Luck Dinner:

Last name A – F: Loaf of Bread + 1 bag Chips
Last name G – L: 6 pack Bottled Water
Last name M – R: Peanut butter
Last name S – Z: Jelly

5:00 – 5:30 Brown Bag Potluck and Networking
5:30 – 6:00 Room Introductions
6:00 – 6:15 Welcome/Meeting Kickoff
6:15 – 7:30 Microsoft Virtualization Technologies (App-V, MED-V, Hyper-V and Boot to VHD)
7:30 – 7:45 Break
7:45 – 9:00 Hands on labs – Windows 7 boot to VHD

Event URL : http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407001&Culture=en-US
Event Title : CWUG: March Meeting – Chicago Loop
Event Date: Thursday, March 19th
Event Address : 200 E. Randolph, Suite 200, Chicago, IL 60601

Event URL : http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032407003&Culture=en-US

Event Title : CWUG: March Meeting – Downers Grove
Event Date: Thursday, March 19th
Event Address : 3025 Highland Pkwy. Suite 300, Downers Grove, IL 60515

Also, check out the group online, on Facebook and on Twitter!

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to let me know via email, @cxi on twitter, etc!

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Posted in Baltimization, Blog, Christopher Kusek, CWUG, Informational, Microsoft, Social Media, Technology, Virtualization | Comments (0)

The CWUG Joins Twitter!

December 17th, 2008

Hey everyone out there in the Chicago Windows Users Group world, Let’s welcome @CWUG to the world of Twitter!

What does this mean for those of us from the CWUG, as well as those of us on Twitter?

NOW! Every link we go to look for from the Facebook, or someone is looking for information about the Meetings, other Mini-Meetings, Nightly Conferences, etc! This will be a repository of that information so you don’t have to search in a million places in order to find it!

So, add @CWUG to your Twitter account and lets make CWUG work for you!

Thanks! @CXI

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Chicago Windows Users Group Tonight! Windows 7, Gadgets, IT Spring Board and more!

December 17th, 2008

Well, Better late than never (Lots of traffic, didn’t get home until really late last night!)

It’s been two months since we’ve met for an in person meeting.  The Chicago office work continues and we’ll provide more information on our February return to downtown Chicago after the new year.  To wrap up 2008, our final in person event is happening this Wednesday evening in Downers Grove.  Come out and get your first glimpse of Windows 7 as well as many other great technologies.

DATE:  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17TH

TIME:  5:00 – 9:00 PM

WHERE:  IN PERSON! – MICROSOFT OFFICE, DOWNERS GROVE

SIGN UP:  http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032398171&Culture=en-US

First 50 registered attendees that attend the meeting will receive a Microsoft Press Book!  Don’t miss out!

AGENDA: 

5:00 – 5:30 DINNER

5:30 – 6:00 ROOM INTRODUCTIONS

6:00 – 6:15 MEETING BEGINS

6:15 – 7:30 SPRINGBOARD IT PRO SERIES PRESENTATION

6:15 – 8:30 HOME TECHNOLOGY TRENDS/CONFIGURATIONS TRACK

7:30 – 7:45 BREAK

7:45 – 8:30 HOLIDAY GADGETS

8:30 – 9:00 WRAP UP

“Springboard IT Pro Series Topic:  Advancing desktop management – Windows Vista and the Road to Windows 7”

Our speaker this month is Microsoft’s Stephen Rose.  Stephen joined Celine Allee’s Springboard team in Redmond and is a former MVP – he was on the last Springboard Series Virtual Round Table on Performance.

Facebook group:  http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=4397556247

CWUG Portal:  http://portal.cwug.net

The CWUG Crew

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Posted in Baltimization, Christopher Kusek, CWUG, Microsoft, Technology, Virtualization, Windows Server | Comments (1)

CWUG Olympics this Monday!!! (In Downers Grove!)

August 16th, 2008

That’s right! I’m actually telling you about the CWUG when it ISNT the day of the event!

And lo and behold, there will be some great things going on this Monday in Downers Grove!

We bring you the CWUG Geek Olympics, with prizes of sorts, food as always and more Points to help secure your place in winning the Laptop at the end of the year!

I’d highly encourage you to register for this event, but don’t hesitate to email or call me if you find that registration is full… I might be able to pull some strings! ;)

This will be a very special event, with beasts! …definitely Geek Trivia, Competition and Prizes!

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Don’t wait! Sign up now! (And most importantly, show up)

Agenda:

Monday

5PM-6PM – Food, Networking, etc
6PM-9PM – Competition, Trivia, Prizes, Education, Technology, insanity!

So, come on down! I’ll seeeeeeee you there!

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Posted in Certification, Christopher Kusek, CWUG, Hyper-V, Informational, Microsoft, SQL, Windows Server | Comments (0)

What’s new indeed

August 6th, 2008

 

So, there have been a number of changes around here.

  • I’ve switched from default numeric posting names to ‘named and dated’ events. 
  • I’ve attempted to start using LiveWriter again, which can be a challenge when you find a complicated manual process of editing files directly to be so much more appealing!
  • I’ve added some additional blogs, with some more to come.
    • Primarily filling out my fellow Microsoft folksies, special respect to Dan Rey, Ariel, and the new Microsoft Beta Blog (Thanks Trika!)
    • I’ll be adding a number of NetApp blogs for some good close friends and folks who have a lot of indepth knowledge to share, and read respectively!
  • I’ve taken some additional betas and will be providing further obscure "non-violating NDA" details of the exams in depth
  • I have a number of broken things, which I haven’t been bothered to fix such as ATOM RSS feeders, carriage returns for that "ShareThis" app – and who knows what other SEO violations I may be under!

I think that is a fair coverage of some changes that have occurred – As for things to come:

  • Indepth posting of Exams, Certifications, Betas – Who takes them, who should, how you can be that person, and being a master on a novices diet.
  • Performance assaults, differences, metrics and other insanity
  • Super cool NetAppy stuff, the likes of which will shock and amaze you
    • (Yet, you’ll eventually be of the understanding as I am – of accepting that as how things OUGHT to be ;))
  • More CWUG Updates! Yea you heard me!
  • More Beta exams and Post-Mortems, and perhaps a review of tests of the past.
  • And perhaps insight into the mind of a Pekingese!

See you soon!

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