Making CodeZone more relevent (under INETA)

Wow! The recent INETA (MSFT) announcement regarding CodeZone has got a bit of skeptical discussion going - Hannes P, Frans B & Jeff P. Even Maestro Gunderloy has expressed skepticism.. ;-)

My inkling was to get our .NET Developers Group that is still in its infancy, more into the INETA fold. My understanding is that the CodeZone User Group Experience (full official title) is "the new place for INETA user group leaders and their members toget their hands on the latest and greatest technology goodness." (I like the last phrase - technology goodness). In essence, Codezone.com is an additional online resource available to an INETA user group (and its members). It is the one stop shop for getting your hands on the latest technology distributed in your Microsoft-supplied quarterly user group kits.

Apparently, CodeZone was first deployed in Europe (as stated in some aforementioned blogs) but this was done rather independently (across the countries). I think the current incarnation is unified under the INETA umbrella and brings in another facet - a distribution point for "technology goodness". Perhaps our INETA & .NET Evangelists can provide more insights.

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