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from INETA India Newsletter

Hyderabad Explores, Bangalore Dates

Academic activities continue to be the highlight in the community activities. Last month saw 2 very successive events conducted by Student chapters of .NET UGs- .NET Explorer # in Hyderabad on 10th October & Date with .NET V2.0 in Bangalore on 5th & 6th November.

Hyderabad: .NET Explored # was organized by DNUGHS, the student Chapter of Microsoft User group Hyderabad (MUGH). The day long event attracted 2000+ students. The students got an opportunity to meet industry leaders during the keynote. Mr.Srini Kopulu, Managing Director, Microsoft India spoke to his experiences with COM and the future with trustworthy computing. Mr.J.A.Chowdary, CEO Portal Player and Mr.Rohit Kumar, V.P, Wipro Technologies were the chief guests for the event. This was followed by a overview talk on .NET by Mr. Janakiram , Academic Evangelist, Microsoft India. Paper presentations, debates & quiz gave the students a platform to innovate and flaunt their skills. All attendees took away beta copies of VS 2005 and Academic resource kits. The event concluded with a enthralling rock show by “Sledge”.

Bangalore: Date with .NET V2.0 was second such event in 2004 by BDOTNETStudent, the student chapter of Bangalore .NET User Group. The 2 event attracted 1000 attendees from 25 colleges from various cities including Bangalore, Mangalore, Hyderabad, Vijaywada and even Kottayam(Kerala). Mr.Deepak Gulati, Mr.Gaurav Khanna and Mr.Kevin DSouza delivered sessions on Microsoft – Past, Present and Future, Garbage Collection in .NET and Windows Embedded respectively. ThoughtWorks gave a talk on Webservices and Service Oriented Architecture. INETA helped BDOTNETStudent to announce the beginning of a library of .NET books for members of the usergroup. The event blended technical & cultural events. Software demonstrations, paper presentations, painting & collage competitions, dance competitions enthralled the audience & participants thrived for the top spot. All attendees took away beta copies of VS 2005 and Academic resource kits. Sunil Jagadish, one of the event co-ordinators described the event as "romantic date!”