Indianapolis InstallFest 2008

Posted December 13th @ 5:02 pm by Dave

Tonight I’m with the Indianapolis .NET Developers Association for their holiday party. What better way to celebrate than hand out 175 copies of Visual Studio 2008 Professional! This is our third InstallFest in the Midwest District (only 2nd one executed as Milwaukee was canceled but will be rescheduled) and what has blown me away from these events is the generosity of the group members and their donations for our toy drive (pictures to come soon). What else has me giddy with excitement is the great demos we’ve seen in our demo challenges. We’ve also seen some great blog posts sharing the experience of the InstallFests for those unfortunate folks who couldn’t make it in person.

So now…the challenge goes out to you Indianapolis! Submit your blog posts and picture links here. Remember the rules. Submit a comment to this post (Indianapolis only) linking back to your blog post sharing the InstallFest experience from Indy. For those of you who brought your digital cameras, post your pictures up at Flickr or Windows Live Photo Gallery and provide a link back here as well. I will draw from those submissions and award a lucky person a spanking new Zune 80GB! The deadline is Sunday, Dec. 17th at 11:59 pm. I will announce the winner on Monday morning, Dec. 18th.

Good luck to you all and thank you for joining us for the VS2008 InstallFest!

← Milwaukee InstallFest Canceled Due to Weather Milwaukee InstallFest Re-scheduled for December 18th →

19 Comments

  1. Chad Phillips
    December 13, 2007 at 17:36

    Here is may flickr site. I will be posting new pic through the night.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/10732889@N00/

  2. Chad Phillips
    December 13, 2007 at 18:14

    Ok the flickr site and my phone are having issues playing nice so I thought I would try the blog also.

    http://cid-8a5372c51e29fe29.spaces.live.com/

  3. Saran
    December 13, 2007 at 18:43

    Thanks a lot Dave.

    Here is my blog which is published during the Install-Fest event.

    http://systematically.blogspot.com

  4. Aaron Lerch
    December 13, 2007 at 19:30

    Here’s my post:
    http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/12/13/indy-installfest-2007/

  5. Chris Hubbard
    December 13, 2007 at 19:34

    Here’s my post:
    http://www.thehubbards.org/blog/2007/12/13/indy-install-fest/

  6. Jeff Moser
    December 13, 2007 at 19:35

    Thanks for the Zune! I’ll enjoy listening/watching Channel9 videos on it.

    My coverage at: http://www.moserware.com/2007/12/live-from-indynda-vs2008-installfest.html

  7. Paul Whitaker
    December 13, 2007 at 20:40

    Hey Dave,

    I just blogged about the event on my dev and personal blogs:

    http://geekswithblogs.net/paulwhitblog/archive/2007/12/13/recap-of-vs2008-installfest-in-indianapolis.aspx
    http://www.paulw.us/blog/

    Thanks!

  8. Dave Scott
    December 13, 2007 at 22:14

    First time blogger, hope to keep it up. Enjoyed the night at the InstallFest. I’m a couple hours north of Indy but I’m sure I’ll get down there again after seeing the group.

  9. Dave Scott
    December 13, 2007 at 22:15

    I’ll try this again, doesn’t look like it kept my url
    http://smalltowntechie.blogspot.com/

  10. Daryl LaBar
    December 14, 2007 at 09:55

    Here is my Flicker Site:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/21823140@N05/sets/72157603454072114/

  11. Mark Snyder
    December 14, 2007 at 11:17

    New to this (kinda cool) and here goes:
    http://cid-2012f36231bd4f2b.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2012F36231BD4F2B!108.entry

  12. timNardoni
    December 14, 2007 at 13:50

    Thanks, again, Dave and everyone else who helped make last night’s Install Fest possible. It was a great introduction to the IndyNDA user group, and I will definitely be back.

    Here’s my recap, pictures to follow as time permits:
    http://www.enardoni.com/tim/2007/12/microsoft-visual-studio-2008-launch.html

  13. Matt Ray
    December 14, 2007 at 14:39

    Dave,

    Thanks again for workign with IndyNDA to put on such a spectacular event. I blogged about the event on my LiveJournal account and have been telling everyone at work about it. I also wanted to extend thanks to you, again, for yourt assistance in hunting down some Project enterprise expertise.

    http://themattray.livejournal.com/tag/indynda+microsoft+vs.net+2008+load+party

  14. danrigsby
    December 14, 2007 at 15:10

    How many people have pictures of me playing Guitar Hero posted? It seems like most of these links do.

  15. Brian Lakstins
    December 14, 2007 at 23:24

    Thanks for the free copy of Visual Studio 2008. I was going to buy it anyway, but this one’s much better … because it’s free!

    Here’s a link to my blog post about the event.

    http://www.balcoding.com/BlogEngine/post/Indianapolis-InstallFest-2008.aspx

  16. Dan Rigsby
    December 15, 2007 at 09:14

    Thanks for everything again Dave. Here is a link to my blog post about the event:
    http://www.danrigsby.com/2007/12/15/indianapolis-installfest-2007/

  17. Madhusudan
    December 15, 2007 at 19:24

    Wonderful event, great group. Have been for first time to this kind of event. Thanks entire group and guys who put lot of effort to organize the event. Will try to attend monthly meet.

    Here is my link.
    http://madhusudang.blogspot.com

  18. Jeremy Mann
    December 16, 2007 at 12:18

    The IndyNDA events just keep getting better and better. Great job by everyone at Microsoft and the IndyNDA that was involved in putting this event on. It was enjoyable and an overall educational experience with fellow peers.

    Below is my visual blog post for those that missed the attendance to see how great it was.
    http://jsmann.com/blog/Jeremy/2007/12/indianapolis-indynda-vs2008-installfest.html

  19. Saran
    December 17, 2007 at 19:03

    http://systematically.blogspot.com/2007/12/visaul-studio-2008-install-fest.html#c2215624221069217802

Leave a comment

OpenID Login

Standard Login

Options:

Size

Colors