Today was a cool day!
Finally the Windows Phone Developer Community is announced and started. I was attending a developer presentation for Windows Mobile 6.5 and Microsoft Marketplace today and just before we broke for lunch i was called to stage to “tell the world” that on Thursday 3. December 2009 we´ll host the first meeting.
This first meetup will be mostly about getting to know each other, and find out who´s interested in becoming driving forces. It is not to be taken lightly that if this is to have any form of success it needs to have support and contribution from developers.
For the occasion we have set up a meetup.com group to handle “members” and announcement of meeting events, so check it out at http://www.meetup.com/Windows-Phone-Developer-Community/.
The intended audience here are Norwegian developers, so the meetup group, and also a group blog and forum that will be set up later will be in Norwegian, but i will extract bits I find interesting and post views and translations here.
It will be very interesting to see how this evolves because Norway is a small country and there are not (to my knowledge) that many mobile developers so i hope those who participate see the need, and are willing to share information. Without sharing no community will grow, and we will all be sitting in our silos guarding our knowledge. I am also happy to say that we have the full support of Microsoft Norway behind this initiative, something that perhaps will make it a bit easier to succeed.
Hope to see you all there!
