I feel NNUG Bergen is doing great at the moment and I hope our members feel the same. Here’s a brief list of what’s been going on so far this year:

• January started off with DSL’s in Boo and NHibernate/Fluent NHibernate. Two great sessions by Øyvind Fanebust and Mark Nijhof.
• In February it was time to pick up Uncle Bob’s SOLID blast across the community world wide, and Mark stepped up again with another quality session. Next was Torbjørn Marø with his Object Oriented database talk, which was great as well and have made many (including me) make use of object oriented databases.
• March gave us an Introduction to Cloud Computing by John Arthur Berg and I rambled about eXtreme Programming being way better than Scrum.
• In April we got Jimmy Nilsson to do a talk about DDD and had some great talks during his session and after. Christian Weyer should have been this month main attraction, but unfortunately he had to cancel.

I addition we registered NNUG as an organization in the Norwegian Brønnøysundregister to make it easier for our selves and our sponsors. We even got our own official org#: 893 923 802 Only thing we’re missing now is a bank account Know any banks that are willing to give us a good deal? By good deal I mean don’t charge us money.

Looking back I see some really good content, and looking forward is not bad either:

• Beginning of May Mary Poppendieck is hopefully visiting Bergen and we’re planning to invite her to NNUG. She might not know this yet, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed
• The regular May meeting will be Mark’s 3rd contribution this year(!), with FubuMVC! Also a newcomer to the NNUG speaker list is Thomas Pedersen who will talk about Implementing Agile Practices which is based on his recent experience at InfoDoc. I expect TDD, pair programming, CI and the lot.
• And then comes June. This is the month NNUG usually takes a break for the summer, but not this year! We have plans to get Jeremy D. Miller to Bergen before he’s going off to NDC. Really looking forward to that one.
• July IS summer break for NNUG Bergen for sure! I for one needs this break.
• August and the rest of the year is open, so help us out by suggesting content!

I hope you enjoy the effort we put into getting speakers with great content every month. We certainly appreciate the speakers that have made NNUG Bergen a success so far and the people that have showed up for the sessions. I have one wish from you as a NNUG member: It would be great to have YOU contribute MORE. Not necessarily by doing talks (although that is very welcome), but be suggesting content, speakers and those things. What can we do to make that happen?