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Benefits of Joining a User Group

Connect with your peers on a global scale, sharing insights, tips, tricks and techniques.
Attend local events to hear technical experts and user group leaders speak, network in person with your peers, and share your experiences.
Learn more about your field through seminars, online chats, newsletters, and other information-sharing.
Take your career to the next level by staying informed of the issues and in tune with the challenges developers face every day.

The Canadian MSDN Community Team

Frederic Harper	Frederic Harper Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Canada Blog \| Twitter \| LinkedIn Fred is a developer evangelist known as the French guy. He is based in Montreal, and he is a kind of social beast. He had experience in web development and did some mobile applications with different platforms. If you want to talk about Web, Open Source, Open Standard, Interoperability and the open mind of Microsoft, he is the man. Social media aficionado, you can connect with him on Twitter, LinkedIn or even go read what he thinks about the latest technology or any day-to-day subjects on his blog (in French). Susan Ibach Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Canada E-mail \| Twitter Susan is a developer evangelist with Microsoft Canada based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Susan comes to the team from the Microsoft Certified Trainer community. You may have run across her in the classroom, or delivering presentations at events like the Microsoft Career Conference, or TechDays. As a developer evangelist, she now channels her inner trainer through blogging on the Canadian Developer Connection or Canadian Solution Developers blog, webcasts, in person events, or informal one on one conversations with members of the IT community. Paul Laberge Developer Advisor, Microsoft Canada E-mail \| Twitter Paul is a Developer Advisor with Microsoft Canada, based in Mississauga, Ontario. Paul brings over 12 years of technical experience working with some of the largest North American Fortune 500 companies to the role and has been with Microsoft for almost 5 years. His experience includes being a lead developer, development manager, lead application architect and IT management for a wide variety of technical solutions. Currently, Paul leads Microsoft’s developer engagement around Windows Phone 7 and in that role, he can be found working with mobile developers of all walks of life, speaking at events, providing information on various social networks and, of course, driving the great Canadian developer ecosystem to building amazing Windows Phone apps. Paul is also passionate about Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy and HTML5 as a way to drive great cross-platform experiences. Thomas Lewis Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Canada Twitter \| E-Mail \| Facebook \| Blog \| HTML5 Blog Thomas Lewis is a Principal Technical Evangelist at Microsoft focused on HTML5, Windows 8 and the web designer/developer community in Canada. When he is not thinking about the brutality of HTML5, Microsoft, and Design, he is plotting the eradication of Internet Explorer 6 from the planet. Jonathan Rozenblit Developer Advisor, Microsoft Canada Blog \| Twitter \| LinkedIn \| Canadian Developer Connection Jonathan is a developer evangelist that comes to Microsoft from the corporate world. Having managed both small and large development teams, Jonathan has experience in corporate development and a passion for helping developers and companies improve their application development practices. In his previous roles, he is known as the person that brings others along, showing developers how they can improve their skills and careers, and most importantly, showing them what's possible. He is an active member of the developer community and brings a wealth of technical experience across Microsoft technologies such as .NET, SharePoint, Dynamics CRM, and Windows Azure, and interoperability across many others. You can catch him on the Canadian Solutions Developers' Blog, Canadian Developer Connection, Twitter, LinkedIn, and live events throughout Canada.
Susan Ibach
Paul Laberge
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Community Resources

Canadian Developer Blog
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MSDN Forums
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MSDN Newsgroups
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