Hello folks,

Just few days and the wonderful CairoCodeCamp event will start, so warm your engine and clear your brain for the enormous amount of technical information at CCC.

What is CairoCodeCamp?

CCC is big Technical event with 20+ speakers and 40+ different session, all talk about Microsoft’s new technology like ASP.NET MVC, C# 4.0, ASP.NET 4.0, etc; it’s substitute for Microsoft EDC/MDC aka Egyptian Developer Conference which canceled since 2008, and Microsoft give hand for some usergroup community to implement it, this usergroup called Dotnetwork aka .network.

There will be a lot of information of .Net Framework 4 because Microsoft will lunch it soon, they lunch the RC1 edition 2 weeks before the event, so stay tune and defragment your brain; and there’ll be a big challenge between 2 ORM tools (NHibernate and Microsoft Entity Framework) sessions, wow i hope there will not be blood.

What I must do before the event?

Everyone want to enjoy this wonderful event, so from my experience if you follow these steps it’ll be perfect event for you:

1. Join CCC Website: It’s the most important step, just go to CCC website and fill the form, you can’t attend the event if you don’t register online [Registration link]
2. Order Tickets as Group: if you want to save some money and you know group will attend with you order tickets as group to save the shipping fees [Tickets link]
3. Check Your Mail: Make sure you check your registered email daily, because they send news and alerts ASAP.
4. Create Sessions Map: Download the agenda and make your mind which sessions you’ll attend, and write your map on a piece of paper and make sure it with you during the event.
5. Come Early: the more early you will be the more relaxing you’ll be, you’ll avoid the crawled registration queue and something sort of that; and just focus on the information at the session.
6. Plan For Your Transportation: there’ll be buses from & to GUC, so make sure you know where the buses will be and if you come with car know how to drive to GUC to avoid arrives late.
7. Notebook: bring small note or notebook and pen so you can write any notes to remember after the event.
8. Make Connections: the best of all this event is gathering people with same ideas, so don’t be shy and make friends/connections.
9. Wearing The Name Tag: please wear your name tag after finishing the registration, because the GUC security and Dotnetwork stuff know you’re attender of the event and everybody know your name so that the step no. 7 will be easier.
10. Closing Session: make sure to attend the closing session because there’ll be a lot of gifts and for sure FUN.
11. Follow the Dotnetwork Twitter: follow Dotnetwork twitter account to be up to date with latest CCC news [Dotnetwork Twitter Page]

Update: They had updated the agenda, the Direction and map How to reach the GUC, the Name tag example, and for sure the gifts that I’m talking about in step 10 above, please check these updates ASAP.

Dotnetwork is Egyptian usergroup which gather for one reason, they interested with .Net Technology, they lunched in December 11,2007 at Microsoft Egypt building in Smart Village, I was lucky to be there to feel and experience my first offline usergroup session/gathering and see a lot of geeks under on roof, some of them was Microsofter “like googler” such as Stephen Forte, Mohammad Wahby, and Ahmed Adel.

I attended most of their Monthly gathering and Techday, it’s wonderful experience to see a lot of people meet in one place to share, discuss, and learn new IT technology, and I was dream to be a part of this phenomenal group.

Group Members:

1. Remon Zakria (President)
2. Ahmed Ramy.
3. Mohammed M. Mosa.
4. Lames Afifiy.
5. Shimaa Hamdan.
6. Karim Wahba.
7. Peter Bahaa.
8. Hebaa.

My Experience with Dotnetwork:

Every gathering or techday i attend the dream grow more and more, until one day at October’09 gathering which focused on Silverlight 3.0, I made my fist contact with Ahmed Ramy and we have small chat, and some day they call for Volunteers to help them organizing the CairoCodeCamp, I make my mind an said this’s my chance to be part of this group even if it for short period there’s nothing I can loss.

I send mail to submit myself as volunteer, and Karim Wahba call me for interview, they accepted me, and we had our first meeting, and now I’m a member of a wonderful group of volunteers I feel enormous pleasure with them and I hope we do it perfectly Inshaa Allah.

See You Soon at CairoCodeCamp, Enjoy it.