We've got some great meetings coming up this Spring at The .NET Developer Network so I thought I'd let everyone know about them:-

• Thursday 25th March 2010 6:30pm (Doors open 6:00pm)
  "Hyper-V For Developers" with Liam Westley
  Liam Westley returns to Bristol fresh from his DDD8 exploits to give us a second dose of virtualization, this time focussing on Hyper-V.
• Monday 12th April 2010 6:30pm (Doors open 6:00pm)
  "Silverlight 4, MVVM and TDD" with Jesse Liberty
  Jesse Liberty (yes, that Jesse Liberty), Silverlight Geek from Microsoft US, starts his first UK and Ireland Silverlight tour in Bristol with a session on Silverlight 4, MVVM and TDD. Meet the man himself and see what this prolific guru has to say.
• Tuesday 11th May 2010 6:30pm (Doors open 6:00pm)
  "Leading-edge Web Development with ASP.NET MVC" with Steven Sanderson
  It's not often you have a published author right here in your home town. This month sees Steven Sanderson, author of the best selling MVC book talk about, well, ASP.NET MVC of course. Steve was rated the best speaker (by knowledge of subject) at DDD South West so this should be a great night.
• Wednesday 2nd June 2010 6:30pm (Doors open 6:00pm)
  "A Guided Tour of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight 4" with Mike Taulty
  The fabulous Mike Taulty, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, introduces us to the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight 4. MEF is a powerful and valuable way to de-couple your applications from specific implementations. Mike is showing MEF in Silverlight 4 but the technology itself is valuable regardless of your choice of UI platform.

As usual membership is free, the meetings are free, everything is free and there'll be loads of swag. See you there.

Bristol now has its own chapter of the worldwide IT community group Girl Geek Dinners. The launch event was in February 2010 and their next event is on Thursday 25th March 2010 at UWE with guest speaker Ana Kronschnabl, CEO of FluffyLogic (it's actually the same date and the same venue as the next DotNetDevNet meeting but GGD are in S block and DotNetDevNet are in Q block). Men are welcome but the rule is you have to be invited by a Girl Geek.