DotNetNuke Road Show Coming To Sarasota, Florida

On Friday, May 4th I am excited to travel to sunny Florida and present to the Sarasota .NET Developers Group ( SarasotaDev ). The presentation will take place at the Sarasota Community Foundation located at 2635 Fruitville Rd in the afternoon from 2:00-4:00 PM. I plan on covering a couple of topics related to DotNetNuke which I think the audience will find highly engaging. The first topic being a presentation and demo of the highly anticipated DotNetNuke 6.2 release which fully integrates the ActiveSocial functionality and transforms the application into a powerful Social CMS. And the second topic being an exploration of technology trends as they relate to Microsoft developers and how DotNetNuke intends to adapt to these trends to ensure it remains a highly relevant web platform for the future. I want to shout out a special thank you to Stan Schultes for arranging the venue and logistics for this event. Following the presentation, the group is invited to attend a great party with awesome pizza, appetizers and drink tickets at the Broadway Bar where we will help kick off the BarCamp Sarasota weekend starting at 5:30pm.

On Saturday, May 5th I am excited to participate in my very first BarCamp conference. The BarCamp Sarasota Spring Conference 2012 is taking place on the weekend of May 5th & 6th at G.WIZ – The Science Museum at 1001 Blvd of the Arts in Sarasota. The 2 day event is full of interesting speakers and sessions, great roundtables and workshops, open-space conversations, and killer parties. I plan to present two topics on Saturday: “C.M.S. Redefined: Cloud. Mobile Social”, a session which highlights the three most disruptive technology trends in recent years and how they will influence the future of Content Management; and “The Business of Open”, a journey through the history of the DotNetNuke project as it evolved from an organic open source project to a venture-backed commercial enterprise.