User talk:BDotNETStudent



BDotNETStudent (Bangalore .NET Student User Group) is a Student Community consisting of more than 800 members. BDotNETStudent is a community of student developers on .NET in and around Bangalore. BDotNETStudent is created, managed and driven entirely by members from the student community.

BDotNETStudent aims at getting .NET onto the campuses by involving the members in a variety of activities like regular meets, technical sessions and inviting them to various Microsoft events and by facilitating interaction with Microsoft and other professionals.

BDotNETStudent is as much for those who are totally new to .NET as it is for more advanced developers. Feel free to discuss any technology related issues on this group and interact with each other and bond as a community! After all it's your group!

If you are a person brimming with passion for technology and are willing to go the extra mile, then this is where you have to be! Join us here!

1. Who are we?

BDotNETStudent, The Bangalore .NET Student User Group is managed and driven by Microsoft Student Champs, who are the on-campus representatives for Microsoft, from across various colleges in and around Bangalore.

We are part of Microsoft's Academic Developer program and we come under B.NET - The Bangalore .NET User Group, which is a user group of professional developers on .NET in Bangalore and which currently has more than 4000 members and is India's most active and largest .NET user group!

BDotNETStudent was formed more than a year back and since then has grown from a small community of around 30 members to nearly 600+ members today and has conducted two major events (Date with .NET v1.0 and v2.0) apart from many sessions at various colleges in and around Bangalore, including Tumkur, Chickmaglur, Mangalore, Surathkal, Manipal, etc.

2. Why are we here?

We are here because we have a passion for technology that our current engineering curriculum cannot please. We want to learn and spread word of the latest Microsoft technologies - especially .NET, which is going to play very important role in the future! .NET is the future as far as Microsoft is concerned. Major parts of the next version of Windows are being written in .NET.

3. What do we do?

We do a lot of .NET related activities and our main meeting point and message board is this online group, where we can communicate with each other and post questions on .NET, which will be answered by professionals from Microsoft and also student developers who have worked on .NET.

We also have regular seminars in various colleges and also organise technical events and competitions, etc. etc.. All our activities will be announced on the group's main page (http://groups.msn.com/BDotNetStudent/home.msnw), so please visit it often and keep yourself updated with the group's events, lest you miss out on some good event!

4. How do I send a message to the group (or) How do I reply to a message that I got from the group? Just send a mail to bdotnetstudent@groups.msn.com to send a message to all members. To reply to a message, just reply to that email from your inbox. You can use the web editor for both posting and replying to messages at http://groups.msn.com/bdotnetstudent Just click on the 'Messages' link on the left. All members are requested to introduce themselves on the Introduction board at our group site and use the General board for more technical posts.

5. I don't know anything about .NET...how do I contribute?Well, just post a message on the group along the lines of 'What is .NET' or 'Can someone help me with this doubt',etc,etc...but please be active on the groups. Post messages as well as responding to messages. It doesn't matter whether you're right or wrong..no one will ridicule you...but we will all learn something in the process. In fact, that's the important message of this post..please be active on the group. Send messages as well as participate in discussions. Messages can be about anything at all...but make sure you send them...:-) (and please dont send forwards or any such junk mail) Also try and be regular at our UG meets to learn and experince .NET and to strengthen the community bond. Please make use of the 'Talk about this' section to suggest topics that you want to hear about and the 'Suggestions' section to give your suggestions and feedback. You may also participate in our onilne quiz - Think.NET and win yourself some cool goodies from Microsoft!

6. How do I contact the BDotNETStudent Team?

You may mail us at bdotnetstudent-managers@groups.msn.com