Here we are. It’s December, and we’ve had transitions, high points, and low points.

We hope you join us as we have one last meeting for 2010, with great topics, great local speakers, and holiday festivities. And our newest community: SW Florida’s freshly-kicked off SQLPASS Community, led by Bob Fleming.

We’ll go December 16th, at our new venue at 6:30pm. County Administration Building F is at the south end of Airport-Pulling, where it meets Hwy 41 (East Trail).

2010 was a year like most others for our Group. High points, low points, changes, and new stuff to explore.

Visual Studio, Silverlight, and MVC all dropped new revisions this year, among other products. Azure became prominent. Windows Phone 7 started appearing in stores.

Our Code Camp was by most measures the smoothest-run of any we’ve had, even though the important work of getting us established as a non-profit set us back several weeks in terms of publication timeline. That, in turn, dropped our attendance somewhat, enough to place second amongst our Code Camps.

We’ve moved to the County Building – a new set of challenges, but also a new set of benefits.

But our old spot was getting harder and harder to make work for meetings, and to grow Group in. The projector’s about had it, the one time we broke attendance cap we had to have somebody with building access get extra chairs – and that cap wasn’t even 20. And they’ve gone through three (two this year) rounds of layoffs that I know of – mostly devs. To continue to meet there would be to (at least a little) endorse that. And we won’t do that.

Finally, as some of you already know, I’ve been putting time into helping Bob get his SQL Group established here in town – time that, I won’t argue, could have been spent instead securing us a speaker for a November meeting. But I think this helps us both in the long run – the devs have a resource for things data, and the dbas have a community they can participate in and make serve them.

I hope to see you at our December 16th meeting, where we’ll hear a couple of brief presentations targeting both the devs and the dbas, celebrate the holidays a little, and discuss the road ahead.

Thanks for all of your support, this year and every year.

John