The email I just received reads:Congratulations! Your order has been received. You will receive your first
shipment of the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium
Subscription in approximately 4 weeks.
Thank you for your support of Visual Studio Team System, and congratulations on
your no-charge 1-year subscription license!
How COOL!
And I owe it all to my good freind: Tablet PC legend and MVP Frank La Vigne. Thanks Frank! He spoke tonight at the Richmond .Net Users Group meeting on "Welcome to the Mobile World." If you've never had the opportunity to hear Frank speak, you've missed out on a great presenter. He's passionate about mobile technology and it shows. Great job tonight, Frank!
Frank presented me with the free MSDN Premium subsciption tonight as he transitioned the presidency of the Richmond .Net Users Group from himself to me. I'm really excited about the Microsoft Developer Community in Richmond - especially after all the good work Frank's done. It will be challenging leading two UG's in town (I'm also president of the Richmond SQL Server Users Group), but I'm sure it will also be fun!
I left the Richmond, VA area almost five years ago. When I left, there was a struggling Microsoft Developer Community in town. I moved to Roanoke, Va for a few months, then to Jacksonville, FL for four years. It was in Jax that I witnessed the good things a thriving Developer Community brings to the local IT industry.
When I returned to Richmond last year, I was psyched about joining the local Developer Community and user groups. I contacted the local Developr Evangelist, G. Andrew Duthie, and asked about the local groups. He put me in contact with Frank.
Frank and I hit it off immediately. There was a kinship from the first time we met - along with mutual respect and admiration. Together with Darrell Norton and Susan Lennon, we worked to bring the first MSDN Code Camp to Richmond in April. And we're working on another for the Fall!
Frank and I started the local SQL Server Users Group in May, and have both been actively speaking at regional User Group meetings and code camps.
He's just a cool person, good guy, and uber-geek! You can read more about him on the personal section of his website. He's had some interesting experiences.
:{> Andy
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