[Group-leaders] Intro

[Peter Kellner]

I'm Peter Kellner originally from New York but now Northern California (speaking at the NYC code camp in a couple weeks).   When I started working on the Microsoft stack about 9 years ago, I did so by going to a dozen or so code camps.  Realizing there was none in my area, I started Silicon Valley Code Camp.  31 days from now we have our 8th event and expect well over 2000 attendees.  I'm feeling a little bad at the moment because we are days away from making our schedule and we have nothing Xamarin related (http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Session/2013).

I have three criteria for working with a new technology.  1) It needs to solve some problem that really bugs me; 2) It must make solving the problem fun; 3) The people involved in the technology (usually both core and community) need to be very fun.  Xamarin hits all 3!  Though I don't know Xamarin well (yet), I'm anxious to learn more.  Initially I'll be more of a conduit I hope to become more active as an evangelizer as time goes on.

Oh yeah, in my free time (sadly not much right now), I love riding bikes.  Taking away from that are making Pluralsight Videos, consulting gigs when I get them and of course general Microsoft MVP stuff like speaking at events, blogging and lately a complete overhaul of our code camp web site as well as building an HTML mobile version of it svcc.mobi (hopefully xamarin one day).

Thanks Joseph for starting this.

Peter Kellner
http://peterkellner.net<http://peterkellner.net/>
Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET
Silicon Valley Code Camp Coordinator
October 5-6, 2013
http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com<http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com/>


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