Community tech days @Microsoft IDC

I got a chance to attend the community techdays -An event conducted by MVP's and Microsoft at the India development center in Hyderabad.Day long sessions included participation of eminent speakers and MVP's from various Microsoft communities.

The whole day was divided into two parts.One for IT pros and the other for Developers.As  a newbie  to .NET technologies it was a good chance for me to learn about the latest offerings  in .NET along with SQL server . Since I love the area of operating systems the  Session for the IT  pros was what is was waiting for.



An In depth seminar on the Core changes made in windows 7 by VijayRaj (Evangelist) from Texas Instruments  was my favourite.Interaction with  Microsoft employees in between sessions and breaks gave us knowledge on what to expect from the future versions of Visual studio and Virtualization technologies.

The participation of various community managers and a few perons from Microsoft who were involved in the development of Windows 7 and IIS in some of the sessions made the event more lively and interactive.

Life as a Netizen

By the time i joined graduation,visiting the local internet cafe had become a habit for me,i wanted to grab as much knowledge as i could.Being a computer science graduate i was intrested in the technical know -how about various technologies which made everyday computing more fun and easy.

As my quest for knowledge grew,so did my intrest in reading and exploring emerging technologies in some key areas like microprocessors,linux,information security and operating systems.

It was during these initial days that i started to frequently participate in the compaq user forums seven years ago.At that  time known as the "compaq community" ,which was provided as a support link in my compaq desktop.Once i was there i had a chance to broaden my knowledge about computers and help other users out when i could.

The sudden rise of social networking sites made more number of people to interact with each other in their very own user- initiated communites within orkut , which were dedicated to a particular topic or product.

When i brought a new lenovo desktop 3 years ago,naturally i joined the lenovo community there as well and became a bit of a serious player,logging in many times a day and helping out as many people as i could.

Lenovo community in orkut

Online collaboration could never  get easier than this!