We’re very excited to announce three new GiveCamp organizations coming online -

• St. Louis Coders4Charity – it seems that this one was put together really quickly, as recently as a few weeks ago, but I just found out about it this weekend.  Scheduled for Oct 16-18 2009, this is the first-ever GiveCamp event in St. Louis.  Organized in part by the guys who run the Coders4Charity event in KC, this event is scheduled to benefit 9 charities.
  
  
• Arizona GiveCamp – organized by Barry Stahl, the @AZGiveCamp is just getting started in terms of team organization.  Their first meeting will be held on Thursday, October 15th – for those interested, follow @AZGiveCamp on Twitter and send them a message.
  
  
• Seattle GiveCamp – organized by Ali Daniali, this event is *just* getting organized.  I know there is a lot of interest in the Seattle area around GiveCamp, and this is exactly what the community needs to get the ball rolling.  Ali has been actively participating in our monthly GiveCamp leadership calls, and I know he’ll do a great job of organizing Seattle’s first!

If you are interested in starting and running a GiveCamp in your area, please reach out to us at givecamp@live.com and we’ll get you connected with some folks that can help!

Based on the popularity of the talk I gave recently at the North Dallas .NET User Group meeting, I’ve scheduled a special-edition MSDN Event for November 11th to go over all the new, cool features of C# 4.0 including dynamic language enhancements, named & optional paramteres, COM Interop and more!

For more info, and to register for the event, check out the event listing on CommunityMegaphone.com

The session list for Tulsa TechFest 2009 have been posted to the event website.  I’ve got 2 sessions, one on cloud (that I’m not sure what I’ll be presenting on yet – any suggestions?) and one on C# 4.0 / VS2010. 

Agenda: http://ping.fm/ISOxw

Tulsa TechFest is one of the premier cross-platform, cross-discipline conferences in South Central.  Over the past 2 years, we’ve hit over 1000 attendees per event, and are looking to really make a big splash again this year.  Following the trend from last year, registration will be “two cans or two bucks”.  Food collected will be donated to the Community FoodBank of Eastern Oklahoma, and all money will be donated to the Family & Children’s Services.

You can keep up with what’s going on with Tulsa TechFest by following @TulsaTechFest on Twitter, or subscribing to newsletter-request@tulsatechfest.com.