Hey everyone and welcome to 2008, so this is my first post of the year and I've deliberately delayed my first blogging so that I start blogging straight after the 2008RoadTrip here in Christchurch.

As you may know, Darryl, Jeremy and Chris have been doing a tour around the country (the road trip) with Chris and Jeremy presenting on SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 along with a local speaker covering Visual Studio 2008 and Darryl tagging along.

I think Chris and JB have done a fantastic job presenting despite Chris feeling a little unwell. Our very own Christopher Fairbairn also did a great job on his part. For me it was a bit interesting being an MC for an event that big and talking in front of over 150 or so people. It went ok though I think.

So with Christchurch now done Darryl, Chris and Jeremy still have Dunedin and Invercargill to go, you can still register for these here

The draw for the windows home servers will be done by Jeremy on the 5th of March so stay tuned!

Also as I mentioned yesterday our next user group meeting will be on the 27th of February and the topic for that is ASP.NET MVC presented by John-Daniel from Mindscape in Wellington.

Finally, thanks for all of you who made it to the event  despite the bad weather yesterday. And a special thanks to Chris, JB, and Chris F for a fantastic presentation.

For some more pictures and more on yesterday see Darryl's blog here.

So it looks like details are finally emerging on the 2008 Summer Road Trip, don't know what I'm talking about yet? read on...

You may have heard that Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 & Visual Studio 2008 are either already in RTM or will be so in 2008. Therefore you might want to start thinking about tuning in to the latest stuff and this is why the 2008 Summer Road Trip is here.

Darryl, Jeremy and Chris will be visiting the following cities on the specified date to talk to each community in the regions below about those three products.

The details are as follows.

The tour will include the following dates and locations:

• · Auckland – Feb 4
• · Tauranga – Feb 5
• · Hamilton – Feb 7
• · New Plymouth – Feb 8
• · Hawkes Bay – Feb 11
• · Palmerston North – Feb 12
• · Wellington – Feb 13
• · Nelson – Feb 14
• · Christchurch – Feb 15
• · Dunedin – Feb 18
• · Invercargill - Feb 19

I'll update the links to the above locations with more details when all information is updated.

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You can register for the event here

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So don't wait, get in soon, it's going to be the best road trip ever!

You can read more about the event at the following blogs: Will try to keep the list below updated as much as I can.

- Mauricio's Blog
- Darryl's Blog
- Chris's Blog
- Jeremy's Blog

More details will be coming soon, in the mean time, don't forget to register here