KNUG is a new .NET user group that I actually helped start a couple of months ago. This meeting was the second meeting for the group. The meeting was attended by about 20 persons and we had two presentations on the agenda. Besides my own Thomas Heder showed the group some LINQ and how he and his colleagues uses LINQPad to develop and test there queries.

We also discussed future subjects, possible speakers and moving information on the group over to a Community Server driven site.

Does anyone have any experience on Community Server and how the feature set matches those need for running a user group (managing users, blogs, email lists, calendar etc)?

I can really recommend Developer Summit as a conference. Everything is super well organized and having the opportunity to listen to celebrities like David Chappell, Jim Webber, Dan North and Christian Weyer in Sweden is really great!

This year I also liked the mix of presentation as some where more general presentation as for example  Benjamin Ling who’s the director of platform at Facebook and who gave an insight to how the platform is managed and developed. I also really enjoyed (besides the obvious ones as for example Christian Weyer’s WCF talk) Frans Hänel’s talk on the history and architecture behind a major price comparison site called prisjakt.nu – very interesting and a great technical mix in otherwise Microsoft focused conference.