Radenko Zec, UG Leader wrote an article: INETA community in Bosnia and Herzegovina
I am publishing it here, until we re-start our newsletter system!
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Community activities in Bosnia have started by founding first INETA user group in Bosnian capital city Sarajevo. This user group was called “MUG” (Microsoft user group) and was founded by Tarik Talić 14-Jul-2005. Unfortunately, this user group has stopped with its activities one year later. In about same time, one man (me) Radenko Zec has started another INETA user in one of largest cities in Bosnia called Banjaluka in 19-Nov-2006. This user group is active today.
This user group had primary focus on developers themes and had one regular meeting monthly. This user group recently moved meetings to larger presentation facilities on University of Banjaluka. On that place we have better conditions to provide demos and to get together larger number of attendees.
In 2007, Damir Dizdarević – Management infrastructure MVP has founded new INETA user group in Sarajevo called “MSCommunity”. This user group started with regular monthly-based meetings in November 2007, and it is active today. Online portal of this group can be found at http://www.mscommunity.ba/. Currently, this group has more than 400 registered members. Their meetings are being held at premises of Microsoft Bosnia and Herzegovina, and they initiated pretty large community activities in Bosnian capital city. This group is focused on both ITPro and SQL/Dev people.
Damir Dizdarević is also INETA Country Leader for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This year, Bosnia becomes richer for two more INETA user groups. One was founded in city Bijeljina, and it is called “.NET user group Bijeljina”. Their web site can be found at bijeljina.mscommunity.ba. This group was founded by Spaso Lazarević. Other group, called F5 was founded by Jasmin Azemović – Sql Server MVP in Mostar (web presentation: f5.mscommunity.ba)
Comparing to some communities in region such as Croatia (more than 10 active user groups) Bosnian community is small (having 4 active INETA user groups) but comparing to other neighborhood countries such as Slovenia (1 active user group) Serbia (2 active user groups) or Macedonia (2 active user groups) we have solid community and we will try to involve more people in community activities, and found user groups in other Bosnian cities.
Also we will try to join our forces in the future to make some large community event.
Posted
Apr 01 2010, 01:44 AM
by
Tomislav Bronzin