We are conducting a contest to promote the Windows 7 features to public. Write about 7 cool features of Windows in Malayalam (either in malayalam fonts, or scan your article), and send to us before Jan 25th. Please ensure, it should be targetting the public, and not the software engineers.  Featured articles shall be published in leading Malayalam news papers. Winners shall get Windows DVDs and Cool gifts.  Enjoy !!!

Dear Sreejumon KP,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2010 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in ASP/ASP.NET technical communities during the past year.

The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say “Thank you for your technical leadership.”
Toby Richards
General Manager ,Community & Online Support, Microsoft

We are planning to conduct the next K-MUG User group session on 19th Saturday.  More details can be located under event page of Kerala Microsoft Users Group (K-MUG) web site. Expecting your support!

Kerala Microsoft Users Group is turning 1 year now, and we have celebrated our 1st anniversary with Windows 7 Community launch at Kozhikode Focus mall on 31st Oct 2008.  We had our official launch in Kozhikode on Oct 25th 2008 , and we have been doing many activities for last one year.

Naren - emerging film actor from Kerala- was our chief guest. Vic Parmar (MVP from Bangalore) and Jijin (Bangalore IT pro manager) gave an overview about Windows 7 and answered the questions from audience.

Event was conducted in the heart of the city, and we got better public participation.

More snaps can be located here

Very big thanks  to all who make this event a grant success. Hopefully we will have the detailed report in K-MUG site soon.

Stay tuned for another mega developer conference in Trivandrum!

Kerala Microsoft Users Group is organizing the Microsoft Community Tech Day in Trivandrum on 24th Oct 2009.  I am in the process of finalizing the agenda and speakers. More details can be located here in K-MUG site. If you are interested in supporting this mega event (including the sponsorship), please contact the K-MUG team. Event registration shall start in another 2 weeks.

“TechEd on the Road” program conducted by Kerala Microsoft Users Group (K-MUG) on 27th June 2009 at Technopark, Trivandrum created another history in Kerala IT industry. One day program targeted the software professionals in Kerala and venue was filled by techies in and around Technopark.

K-MUG team opened the registration counter by 8 AM and started confirming the registration of the attendees. All attendees received a welcome kit from K-MUG, which includes K-MUG notepad, feedback form, K-MUG questionnaire, SQL Server cheat sheet, Magazine and daily news paper from Mathrubhumi. At the end of the session, all attendees received the Visual Studio 2010 beta DVD. K-MUG questionnaire was used to select the 40 lucky winners for T-Shirts, Caps and stress balls. Most active participant of the TechEd also received a special gift. K-MUG had prepared the filler videos for breaks, which highlights the K-MUG activities and technology highlights from Microsoft. Read more »

K-MUG is conducting a one day conference for software professionals in Kerala named mini-TechEd on 27th June (Saturday). This conference is inline with the Microsoft TechEd conducted in Hyderabad, and developers will be getting similar(& better) sessions at free of cost. Mini techEd shall have the following technical tracks as part of the agenda.

1. Visual Studio 2010 Features
2. What is new in ASP.NET 4.0
3. Silverlight 3.0
4. Windows 7 for developers
5. SQL server best practices
6. SQL logical query execution and optimization tips
7. WPF Graphics
8. Hidden Gems in SQL Server
9. All about User Experience

More details can be located here.  More blogs about min TechEd can be located here

Kerala Microsoft Users Group (K-MUG) bagged three tickets to Microsoft TechEd 2009, which help at Hyderabad on May 13-15. Myself, Binoy and Shoban represented the K-MUG in TechEd Community Zone. K-MUG team had met many folks from Microsoft, INETA, PASS and other User Groups. Most of them were really surprised by the activities we have been doing in Kerala, K-MUG was featured in my sites and channels.

As part of the regional language drive, I gave an overview about ASP.NET in Malayalam.

Second day, Keynote session was delivered by Mr Rasool Pookkutty (Oscar winner from Kerala) and we managed to get slot from him and discussed many things related to Read more »

Dear Sreejumon KP,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others.

The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say “Thank you for your technical leadership.”

Toby Richards
General Manager
Community Support Services

I am happy to inform you that our mega launch event was a great success!! Inspite of the heavy rain and bad weather condition in Kozhikode, we got more than 1000 participants. Here is the first press release from Mathrubhi daily.

A big thanks to all members who made this possible. More details and medias will be uploaded to http://k-mug.org site.