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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>BenkoBLOG : Community</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Community</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Twin Cities Silverlight User Group is LAUNCHED!</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/archive/2008/05/23/twin-cities-silverlight-user-group-is-launched.aspx</link><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 19:00:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8539956</guid><dc:creator>benko</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/comments/8539956.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8539956</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8539956</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ilmservice.com/silverlight/seminar.aspx"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="93" alt="SilverLightUserGroup_small" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/SilverLightUserGroup_small_3.jpg" width="252" align="right" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This week on Tuesday I had the great pleasure of attending the charter meeting of a new User Group in Minneapolis focused on &lt;a href="http://Silverlight.net"&gt;Silverlight&lt;/a&gt;. Many thanks to Farhan and all the people who worked so hard to make this event a success.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Scheduled to run the third Tuesday of each month, it was standing room only with more than 100 people in attendance. &lt;a href="http://www.jerrysevier.com/"&gt;Jerry Sevier&lt;/a&gt; presented on an overview topic on Silverlight 2.0 and showed the various tools available to the developer to take advantage of this new technology. The crowd was very lively and the conversation was a lot of fun. Check it out! &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;     &lt;tr&gt;       &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/HPIM1348.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="153" alt="HPIM1348" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/HPIM1348_thumb.jpg" width="202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/HPIM1345.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;        &lt;td&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/HPIM1346.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="153" alt="HPIM1346" src="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/HPIM1346_thumb.jpg" width="202" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/blogfiles/benko/WindowsLiveWriter/TwinCitiesSilverlightUserGroupisLAUNCHED_9A7E/HPIM1346.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt; 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    &lt;/tr&gt;   &lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;  &lt;p&gt;See you next time!&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8539956" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx">Community</category></item><item><title>Shawn Hargreaves Speaking in Mpls at XNA User Group</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/archive/2008/05/14/shawn-hargreaves-speaking-in-mpls-at-xna-user-group.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 17:58:09 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8503244</guid><dc:creator>benko</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/comments/8503244.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8503244</wfw:commentRss><wfw:comment>http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=8503244</wfw:comment><description>&lt;p&gt;Calling all XNA Developers in the Twin Cities area and beyond.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;This May 15th, the Twin Cities XNA User Group is pulling out all the stops to bring you a Shawn Hargreaves (Microsoft, XNA Team) Double Feature! Shawn is flying in from Redmond for one night and while we have him here, he'll be answering YOUR questions and presenting on the following topics: &lt;b&gt;1.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Defeating the Network Game Gremlins&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;b&gt;2.&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Understanding Shaders&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;#160; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For more information and to register, please visit &lt;a href="http://www.twincitiesxnausergroup.com"&gt;http://www.twincitiesxnausergroup.com&lt;/a&gt;.    &lt;br /&gt;Meetings are held at Magenic (4150 Olson Memorial Hwy, Suite 400, Golden Valley, MN 55422) on the Third Thursday of each month at 6pm.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8503244" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/benko/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx">Community</category></item></channel></rss>