by asli
28. June 2011 10:25
Yalla Apps is now giving away Fable 3 or Halo:Reach Games for XBOX 360® (or PC) to the first 100 members that publish an App to the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace via the Yalla Apps portal. And that’s not it – the developer who publishes the best app of the month during May and June will also win a Windows Phone 7!
More details about the Yalla App-a-thon competition can be found on http://www.facebook.com/yallaappsand on the GCC blog : Yalla App-a-thon – Publish an App and get an XBOX 360® game!
by asli
20. October 2010 18:23
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Are you looking for user groups, communities and leader that can connect you with the latest information, technologies, jobs, and project opportunities on the Microsoft developer platform in the Middle East & Africa? Not meant to be a comprehensive list, here is a snapshot from around our region for communities you can look to for events & membership – and even jobs via Microsoft Gulf – Jobsand Microsoft Middle East and Africa (MEA) Jobs, as well as general MEA organizations such as Microsoft Advocates in Middle East and Africa. Keep current with the latest Microsoft Valuable Professionals in your area by typing your country into the search box (e.g. Saudi Arabia).
| Region | Communities | Experts |
| Turkey | Microsoft Student Partners Turkey | Daron Yöndem Microsoft Regional Director, MEA | INETA Turkey Lead | Silverlight MVP |
| | Microsoft Certified Professionals Turkey | Mumin CICEK – Exchange Server MVP from Turkey. Blog |
| | Microsoft TURKEY | Evren Ayan – Sharepoint Services MVP from Turkey |
| | | Hasim Inal: Virtual Machine |
| | | Mustafa Acungil: SQL Server: Training
Blog, blog |
| | | Hakan Ulagan: SQL Server |
| | | Halil Ozturkci: Enterprise Security: Engineering |
| | | Emre Aydin: Exchange Server |
| | | Ekin Ozcicekciler: Device Application Development: Development |
| | | Ugur Umutluoglu: ASP/ASP.NET: Development |
| South Africa | Microsoft South Africa on Facebook 
| Hilton Giesenow – creator The Moss Show |
| | PHP Developers South Africa, | Robert MacLean – Team System MVP from South Africa |
| | PHP Community Site - South Africa Mirror | | |
| | Web Developers South Africa | Gail Shaw: SQL Server |
| | South African Web Design | Rudi Grobler: Windows Desktop Experience: Development |
| | sadeveloper.net | |
| Israel | Microsoft Israel R&D center
| Eyal Vardi: Visual C#: Architecture |
| | PHP Experts Tel Aviv-Yafo MySQL User Group ( Tel Aviv-Yafo , Israel ) | Shay Levy: PowerShell: Systems Administration |
| | | Adi Katz: Dynamics CRM: R & D |
| | | Pavel Yosifovich: Visual C++: Development |
| | | Haim Lazarovitch: File System Storage: Architecture |
| Pakistan | Microsoft Pakistan | Munir Usman - MVP |
| | Microsoft ASP .NET Pakistan | Jehan Ara – WIT Advocate, President of P@SHA |
| | INETA Pakistan | Fariha Akhtar – WIT Advocate |
| | SharePoint Pakistan User Group- 500 members | Adil Mughal – MVP, Development Executive at Telenor Pakistan |
| | | Khalil ur Rehman Khan: SharePoint Services: Architecture |
| | | Muhammad Imran Khawar: SharePoint Server: Architecture |
| | | Imran Mustafa: Dynamics CRM: Architecture |
| East & West Africa | Microsoft Nigeria - Family and Friends | Wilson Kutegeka – Visual Basic MVP from Uganda |
| Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Microsoft DreamSpark ™ - Saudi Arabia | Mohammad Asem Alhourani – Configuration Manager MVP from Saudi Arabia |
| | Saudi Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) | Fauzan Khan: ASP/ASP.NET: Development |
| | WIT – Women in Technology | Emad Mohammed Raghib Abdelaziz: Client App Dev |
| | Microsoft Technical Communities in Saudi Arabia | Monzer Osama AL Shaikh: Dynamics GP: Engineering |
| | Dot Net Community | |
| | Riyadh SharePoint User Group(RSUG.NET) – 1500 members | Yasir Attiq Butt: SharePoint Services: Development |
| United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait | Microsoft Gulf's Partners in Learning Program www.SharePoint4Arabs.com Dubai PHP (Dubai) – Meetup, Dubai MySQL User Group , Dubai PHP | Majid Ardforoushan – SharePoint MVP from United Arab Emirates Mohamed Yehia (Center of Expertise) |
| | TechiesUAE | Tarek GhazaliSQL Server MVP (Abu Dhabi) |
| Egypt | Egypt SharePoint User Group www.SharePoint4Arabs.com | Mohamed Zaki's blog - Sharepoint MVP Marwan Tarek Ayman El-Hattab Mohamed Yehia (Center of Expertise) |
| | www.egypt-developers.com | Yasser Makram – Expression Blend |
| | | Ahmed Bahaa Mohamed Farid – Team System |
| | Barmagy Blogger Community .Network.orgA group of people "code geeks", who share the same passion for development on .Net platform. who want to learn new stuff, and have the responsibility of telling others about it...
We organize monthly gathering (3rd Saturday of every month), also we fire Rock Star event twice a year.
Major Achievements: Cairo Code Camp '09 ...... The community has more than 1,300 members | Mohamed Yehia's blog-Sharepoint Architect
Ayman El Hattab- Sharepoint Trainer
Marwan Tarek – SharePoint MVP
Shady Khorshed- Sharepoint MVP
Ramy Mahrous- BI Developer
Karim Mohamed- Principal Lead Cloud Computing, LINK Development
Hossam Khalifa LINKdotNET. Microsoft Regional Director
ArchiVSTS
Mok Spaceplatform beyond internals |
| | Egyptian Microsoft MVPs
| Mina Nagy – Unified Communications MVP from Egypt |
| Lebanon | lebdev-first .NET community in Lebanon | Tarek Ghazali – SQL Server MVP from Lebanon |
| Jordan | JorDev | Mohammad R. Daoud: Dynamics GP: Development
M Dawoud's blog (Dynamics MVP) |
| | JordanSug- Jordan SharePoint User Group | Mohammed Saleh (Jordan) (C# MVP) |
| | Jordan IT Pros | |
| | دوت نت عربي | |
| Algeria | | Wissem Habboub – SQL Server |
| Morocco | Morocco .Net User Group (MONUG)Ce groupe regroupe toutes les personnes intéressés par le Technologie .Net | |
| Tunisia | Microsoft Student Partners : Tunisia | |
| Libya | | |
Related information:
The Developer Platform & Evangelism team for Web Strategy in Middle East & Africa
May 2010 - Microsoft Developer Events in Middle East & Africa
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by asli
30. April 2010 20:23
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The best way to find events is to use our centralized Middle East event portal or the worldwide event portal. Use the Advanced Search option to filter by country. Here is a snapshot of some of the May events in our region.
| Region | Events |
| Turkey | INETA Visual Studio Roadshow
Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Kayseri, Eskişehir
April 14 – 30 May |
| South Africa | Hosting Days Join other hosting providers, independent software vendors, resellers, and system integrators in discovering new ways to build and grow your hosting business Durban, South Africa May 13, 2010 Johannesburg, South Africa May 20, 2010 Cape Town, South Africa May 27, 2010 |
| | DevDays 2010 brings you the best of current developer technologies, along with a preview of soon-to-be-released Microsoft tools and technologies. Durban. Date: 12th May 2010
Venue: Sun Coast Casino Click here to register |
| Israel | |
| Pakistan | |
| West Africa (Nigeria, Kenya and 46 other countries) | |
| Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | |
| United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait | Dubai, Kuwait, Manama, Muscat Mar 22 - May 7 Visual Studio 2010 Community Day |
| | Visual Studio 2010 premiering at a theatre near you! Join Microsoft Gulf and the local developer community at the Cinestar Cinemas at the Mall of the Emirates for exclusive presentations on Visual Studio 2010, fun giveaways, and a viewing of Iron Man 2! It’s completely free but you do need to Register. May 2nd, 2010, 02:00 PM – 08:00 PM |
| | Microsoft Gulf is hosting regional finals of Imagine Cup 2010 in Dubai at Atlantis Hotel on Monday, 3rd May 2010. 10 teams from universities across Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and UAE will battle it out to win the chance to represent the region at the global finals of Imagine Cup being held in Warsaw, Poland July 3-8, 2010 |
| | Scrum Project Management - 1 User FREE
Get the tool that sprints as fast as your team. Burndown charts, sprint tracking, workflow, users and project manager dashboards. Free for 1 user. 30-day trials for teams. Download OnTime 2009 >> - Day/Date: Monday, May 3rd, 2010
- Time: 9:00am – 1:00pm
- Venue: Atlantis Hotel, Convention Centre, Room C
- Microsoft Representative: Charbel Fakhoury, Regional General Manager, Microsoft Gulf
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| Lebanon | Beirut 15-May Visual Studio 2010 Launch |
| Egypt | May 12 at 3:30 PM @ Microsoft Egypt, Smart Village to celebrate the launch and learn about the great features in SharePoint 2010. RSVP to the Facebook event here.
Cairo
SAT May, 1st – 12:00 AM
SharePoint 2010 Workflows
Online : EgyGeeks Online User Group
Arabic SAT MAY, 8th – 13:30 PM
Troubleshooting SharePoint Solutions
Online: SharePoint Saturday India
English WED May, 12th – 15:45 PM
Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint 2010
Offline: SharePoint 2010 Community Launch by EGYSUG |
| | Cairo May 10-12 Visual Studio 2010 and SQL Server 2008 R2 Launch |
| Jordan | |
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| Algeria | |
| Morocco | |
| Tunisia | |
| Libya | |
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