We've finished our launch event, We were the first in southern california i guess :). I think it was pretty good, there are some stuff that we have to work on, but we ll get better i promise :)

You can see some of the photos here : http://www.flickr.com/photos/iedotnetug/

James summarized the event as :

George Ande – ASP.NET Ajax with .NET 3.5
Sean Dorsett – Visual Studio 2008 Tips and Tricks
Volkan Uzun – New features of C# 3.0
Steve O’Brien – LINQ
Matt Penner – GIS and Spatial Analysis in SQL 2008
Cigdem Uzun – Silverlight 2.0
 
While the attendance was not as much as I had thought, based on the VS 2005 Launch at ITT Technical Institute (overloaded with tech students), here are some details:
 
RSVP’s:  36
Actual Attendance: 34 (a IEDOTNETUG Record!)
Non RSVP Attendees: 8
First Time Attendees: 11 (each one came to me, stating they would be back)
Total Raffle Ticket Sales: 364 (oh my!)
Number of software licenses (VSTS 2008, SQL 2008, WS 2008, telerik, CodeSmith, ReSharper, Infragistics) won: 38
Number of books (O’Reilly, Wrox, Pearson) won: 22 (jeez, I just got those too)
Number of job offers mentioned after break: 4
Pizza slices left over: 1