To go with Keith Rome's Games For The Web With Silverlight 2.0 presentation at our June 12th meeting we have our very first contest.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to develop a web game using Silverlight 2.0 before the July meeting.

Microsoft has been very generous in donating a Zune for the 1st place winner! We will be working with other companies to get more prizes donated for the 2nd and 3rd place winners as well.

The rules are simple:

1) You MUST attend BOTH the June and July meetings to win (6/12/08 and 7/10/08).

2) Judging will by by voting by all attendees of the July meeting.

3) In the event of a tie, there will be a head-to-head vote to break the tie.

4) You must be a member in good standing of GGMUG to enter. This is not an open contest for anyone in the wide, wide world of sports. Rule number 1 pretty much covers this one...

5) The game must be playable with the Silverlight 2 player in a browser.

More rules may be added (as we think of them...) and will be presented at the June meeting.

We're not a huge group yet, so your odds of winning a Zune look pretty good! Come on out to the meetings and let's have fun with this one!

Do we ever have a great meeting lined up for June! The date is Thursday, June 12 and the start time is 6:30 PM for socializing and 7:00 for the actual meeting.

Keith Rome of Wintellect is coming to tell us about Games For The Web With Silverlight 2.0.

Keith is a C# MVP and holds a number of Microsoft certifications including MCPD-EAD, MCSD, MCDBA, and several MCTS titles. Keith is a highly active development community leader in the Atlanta region, and either attends, coordinates or presents at nearly every .NET meeting and code camp in Atlanta. His current specialties include Deep CLR Internals, Systems Architecture, and Silverlight/WPF.

He is a Project Manager and Senior Technical Consultant for Wintellect, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that focuses on high-end consulting and training in Microsoft core development technologies. He has been a developer and consultant in the Atlanta region since 1997, and has experience in a wide range of vertical industries, technologies, and platforms, but has been focused on the .NET platform since 2002. He is a C# MVP, and holds many current Microsoft certifications including MCPD-EAD, MCSD, MCDBA, MCTS-WSS, MCTS-WPF, and MCTS-TFS. He can most often be found speaking at user groups and other developer events about real-world Silverlight and .NET Internals topics.

Keith's MVP profile can be viewed here: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Keith.Rome.

His Bog is here: http://www.mindfusioncorp.com/weblog/

His company's website is: http://www.wintellect.com/

NOTE:  Our meeting time has changed.

We will have meet and greet from 6:30 PM until 7:00 PM and the meeting will begin at 7.

The location stays the same: Gwinnett Technical College, Building 100, Room 401. 

To go with Keith's presentation we have a CONTEST! More on Operation Silverlight in the next post! You could win a major award! Stay tuned!

GGMUG.com now has a job board complete with our first listing!

Be sure to check out the Pages links over in the left column. Here is a link directly to that page.

Our first listing is for the .Net developer position with the Gwinnett County Government's IT department that was announced at the May meeting.

So cruise on over, check out the listing and tell them GGMUG sent you!

jeffa