Windows Phone Camp on November 9th in Birmingham, AL at the Innovation Depot. This is a free, full day event chock-full of everything you need to know to develop a Windows Phone application. You will have the chance to learn more about the new Windows Phone 7.5 (codename “Mango”) features – with detailed sessions around Fast Application Switching, Multitasking, Live Tiles, Push Notifications, and more. Some cool prizes to be raffled away. To register go to the following link: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2340522566

We will be meeting at New Horizons from 6pm to 8pm tonight. Come out and join us. please register at http://silverlightnights.eventbrite.com/ so we know how much food to order. Daniel Leverett Powell will be speaking at on Microsoft Lightswithc for Visual Studio 2010.

Reminder about the upcoming Silverlight Nights meeting on March 3, 2011 DATE : March 3rd, 2011 at 6:00 PM PLACE : New Horizons New Horizons – 601 Beacon Parkway West – Birmingham, AL 35209 Register Now! Tweet This Event

Our next meeting with will be March 3, 2011. Daniel Leverett Powell will be speaking on Microsoft Lightswitch. We will be meeting at New Horizons from 6pm to 8pm. Come out and join us. Register at http://silverlightnights.eventbrite.com/

We are canceling our meeting due to bad weather. With James Span saying road would not be safe to travel on by 7pm, we have made the decision to cancel tonight’s meeting. Please check back for info about our next meeting.

Big thanks to the Silverlight Member that came out and help with GiveCamp Birmingham.   The event was a success and we all had a lot of fun.  We ended up helping 3 nonprofits.  In addition servera other non profits came out and benifited from some training on Socail Media.   So what is next for GiveCamp Birmingham.   Well our group is going to finish up some of the task that are outstanding on the Innovation Depot project at our next meeting on Feb 3.

GiveCamp Birmingham is looking for volunteers. Are you a designer, developer or database administrator wanting to donate some time help some non-profit organizations? www.givecampbirmingham.org GiveCamp Birmingham will be working on three non-profits tech project on Jan 14 – 16. If you are interested in being part of Alabama’s first GiveCamp please register at www.givecampbirmingham.org . For more information about the National GiveCamp check out www.givecamp.org

On Jan 13, 2011 TechBirmingham Unplugged will be hosted at the Innovation Depot in Birmingham.   Come out and network with technology leaders in the Birmingham Area.

A quick reminder that Silverlight nights will not be meeting in Janurary becasue would liek everyone send some time with GiveCamp Birmingham. Come out and join us and support some of our members as we work on technical projects for non-profits. Check out www.givecampbirmingham.org for more info.

With the holidays coming to an end, everyone getting back to work, and GiveCamp Birmingham in Janurary, we have decide to not have a meeting in January. Our next meeting will in in Feburary. Make sure to come out and see what is need. Jonathan Marbutt will be talking about a couple of changes coming to Silverlight. Daniel Leverett Powell will be coming simple game development in Silverlight. More details will be announced in Mid to late Janurary.