I attended the NYC Microsoft Heroes Happen Here Launch event on 3/4/08.  My role in attending this event was to represent PASS and the local user groups at the Community User Group Table.  As the day went on, it became more apparent to me that folks are having a difficult time finding the websites of the local user groups.  Peter Laudati (NY/NJ/CT Developer Evalgelist) does a great job of blogging about the monthly events scheduled for the local user groups (http://blogs.msdn.com/peterlau/), but selfishly I wanted to capture just the user group websites for me (and of course for you…).

Enjoy!!!

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New Jersey

• NJ MS Developers Group
• Northern NJ User Group (N3UG)
• Central NJ .NET User Group
• NJ SQL Server User Group

New York

• NY Enterprise Windows User Group
• NYPC Visual Basic SIG
• Long Island .NET User Group
• NYC SharePoint User Group
• NYC Connected Systems Group
• NYC .NET Developers User Group
• NY Metro SQL Server User Group
• IASA NYC

Connecticut

• Fairfield/Westchester .NET User Group
• Fairfield/Westchester SQL User Group
• Southern CT .NET UG
• Connecticut.NET

Pennsylvania

• Pittsburgh .NET User Group
• Philadelphia SQL Server User Group
• Lehigh Valley .NET User Group
• Central Penn.NET
• Philly .NET
• .NET Valley (Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area)
• Philadelphia Area SharePoint User Group
• Philly Office Geeks
• Philly Alt.NET

Delaware

• Delaware .NET Users Group
• Northern Delaware .NET User Group

On April 15th, the NJ SQL Server User Group will host New Jersey based author Jay Krishnaswamy(See details below).  One of my goals for the NJSQL group is to grow the SQL Server Community in New Jersey.  It’s awesome to be able to host all types of presenters at the NJSQL meetings, but it’s important to encourage New Jersey bases folks to present at a NJSQL meetings.

If you are a New Jersey based SQL Server Professional who is thinking about becoming a speaker, please contact me.

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Date: Tuesday, April 15th

Sponsor:  Microsoft

Refreshments:  Pizza/Soda

Give-A-Ways:  TBD

Topic:  An overview of SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Presenter:  Jay Krishnaswamy

Dr. Jay Krishnaswamy is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore writes on database and web development related topics to several computer programming related web sites. Before working in the IT industry as a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a Siebel Certified consultant he taught and worked at several institutes of technology and universities in India, Australia, Brazil and the USA. His book on SQL Server Integration Services was published by Packt Publishers, Birmingham, UK.

Overview:
This session will allow beginners to get a jump start on the SQL Server Integration Services concepts using Visual Studio 2005. The emphasis of this talk will be mostly on the Microsoft wizardry that puts rapid application development on a stable platform.