"This was my first meeting so I can't really comment on the group's long-term utility."

— Tim (May 8, 2008)

"Great way to meet a wide range of software developers. I enjoy the networking component a lot."

— Loretta (May 8, 2008)

"Networking + presentation on current topic."

— Bruce Dayton (May 7, 2008)

"A good group to network with other developers with goals to find jobs, opportunities, & contract work in the industry."

— Evan (May 7, 2008)

"The networking is what's best about the group."

— James DeLaHunt (Apr 16, 2008)

"Thanks to Guy for his efforts in promoting and coordinating the group. An insertion in T-Net does help make more people aware of VANDEV. Keep up the good work. Thanks to Guy for hosting the meeting and to Kim for getting the books."

— Keith (Mar 29, 2008)

"This is a great meeting as developers can join together for some talk. I will attend again."

— PhilipWong (Mar 27, 2008)

"Look forward to future meetings of this group."

— Steve (Feb 10, 2008)

"Hope to see you guys more frequently and Guy, too. ;)"

— Henry Min Bang (Feb 8, 2008)

"some of the people who attended should take something like Toast Master classes and may be learn how to stay on topic when they have something to say instead of blubbering everything that comes to their mind. "

— Lilia (Jan 4, 2008)

"Lots of geeks. I am glad I came, but wish the presentation was better organized (not Guy's fault, of course)"

— Sohail Somani (Jan 3, 2008)

"Looking forward to more great nights! Thanks for organizing it. "

— Dan Hodgins (Jan 3, 2008)

"Good for meeting people who are interested in learning more about programming."

— Max (Jan 3, 2008)

"A presentation on programming language metaphors (and perhaps the patterns they support - though some of the functional people dislike patterns) would be nice. There is an apparent conflict between the UML-style tight type checking and the agile-style ducktype approaches which would have been interesting to air."

— David Aiken (Jan 3, 2008)

"VanDev is a good forum and it seems to cover a wide variety of topics under the sun. This was my first visit, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how the organizer facilitated directed networking by letting everyone introduce him/herself, talk about their interests, and even having simple, yet important, things like name tags."

— Immad (Dec 8, 2007)

"The meeting format works great."

— Dan Wright (Nov 9, 2007)

"A good place to meet software people and especially good for those who search employment. "

— Rehan (Nov 8, 2007)

"Greate meetup. will give you new thoughts to think about and have chance to meet dynamic persons and expand your network."

— chandra (Oct 25, 2007)

"I think this is a great group of people truly interested in meeting other developers out there. I look forward to the next meetup!"

— Jason Lee (Aug 13, 2007)

"Smart people, good networking opportunities."

— Jan Karlsbjerg (Aug 9, 2007)

"First time out.. will check again if a topic of interest comes up."

— Raj Taneja (May 8, 2007)

"There was a well diversified mix of skills and interests, which is good for planning future activities for the whole group. "

— Vadim Dumin (Apr 2, 2007)

"...still tough to authoritatively rate a 'typical session'...agai n, not sure that this is a 'typical session'...more biased towards technical people, which is a nice balance against other groups I network with. This was my first 'real' session - great to see the turnout! good interaction, and broad range of participants tonight..."

— Jim Brosseau (Mar 6, 2007)

"Interesting meeting. Nice to meet other people in the field and to see what is happening out there."

— Avner Moshkovitz (Mar 5, 2007)

"Helpful in my quest for a learning technique for 'Un-natural Languages.' Thanks."

— George Wade (Jan 12, 2007)

"Members are outstanding, very knowledgeable and personable. Includes non-techies, which is good."

— Richard Hough (Jan 11, 2007)

"Simply great :)"

— Mert Karakilic (Jan 11, 2007)

"Various, nice and interesting people."

— Alex Marandon (Dec 7, 2006)

"Nice meetup group, interesting combination of skills."

— Cartik Sharma (Dec 6, 2006)

"The presenter for the topic of the meeting was a good speaker. He could have explained it a bit more from a broader perspective and slowly narrowing it down which he did to a degree."

— Brian (Dec 6, 2006)

"Well-run and thriving."

— Ducky Sherwood (Nov 1, 2006)

"A good number of people and a variety of interests are represented."

— tashaalfonso (Oct 5, 2006)

"It's too early for me to generalize about this meetup group, but my first impression is that it's a good idea."

— Brian Hauk (Oct 4, 2006)

"Very good. Thanks."

— meggie (Oct 4, 2006)

"great people"

— Richard Siegenthaler (Sep 13, 2006)

"Great presenters. Engaging subjects. Well organized. Superb venue."

— Phillip Beynon (Sep 7, 2006)

"More Depth! Well! Now that is a deep subject! "

— Casey (Aug 7, 2006)

"An interesting group - varied, yet well focused on Open Source software and all that comes with that."

— David Drucker (Aug 3, 2006)

"My first exposure, so not much to say there."

— Nick D (Aug 2, 2006)

"I think I'll have to come more often."

— Dave Cameron (Jun 7, 2006)

"Thanks to Guy for a great evening."

— Ray (Jun 1, 2006)

"Thanks to Guy for his work in organizing this."

— Randall Kippen (Jun 1, 2006)

"meeting group was great, some interesting people were there. thanks for having me!"

— Daniel Fraser (May 4, 2006)

"Just great! I will continue to attend until I find a job."

— Linda (Apr 13, 2006)

"Was my first time attending, and I thought it was pretty good. I thought that sometimes the audience pulled it off topic a little much. But sometimes they added good info. Good work getting it happening."

— Dustin (Mar 8, 2006)

"Excellent Networking Event. Just a thought, maybe we can publish a contact list for all the people who attended?"

— Steven Ho (Mar 7, 2006)

"Was great idea to encourage everyone to mention what they were interested in talking about during their introduction -- really got the conversations started."

— Allison Gau (Mar 7, 2006)

"This is a good place to network. There were industry profesionals, people from small businesses looking for help, and students/recent grads (like myself) looking to get their feet wet."

— Jeremy May (Mar 7, 2006)

"It's my first time of this group. Although I'm looking for work as network/system administrator, I think I can still learn from the talks and meet people in the IT field. Thanks. "

— Clay Ye (Jan 5, 2006)

"This group's fantastic, I'd like to be kept stay tuned in this group."

— Michael L. (Dec 13, 2005)

"Its a nice forum to networking and share ideas"

— Farid Azhar (Dec 9, 2005)

"Good chance to talk to like-minds."

— Chris Esther Chau (Dec 9, 2005)

"So far so good. The people were interesting, and interested."

— Gordon Cornwall (Sep 8, 2005)

"It's great to meet people and network. The meetups could occur more frequently without a formal format too - like meeting at a cafe for general tech talk."

— Rob Sanders (Apr 8, 2005)

"Excellent concept"

— Steven Burton (Jan 12, 2005)

"Well organized, good idea with the name tags, congratulations, I'll join your meetings again. Next time you may need a larger room though."

— Calin Medianu (Jan 11, 2005)

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