What is MUGH Core?

MUGH Core is an internal group within MUGH that takes care of how this user group operates.

The current members are:

Harish Ranganathan
Sudhakar Sadasivuni
Anjana Ramamoorthy
Hima Bindu Vejella
Geetesh Bajaj
Arun Ganesh
Anil Radhakrishnan

We are also extending an invitation to the following Hyderabad based MVPs to become part of the MUGH Core group:

Muqeet Khan
Shanmugh Sundar
Abhishek Joshi

These members are not active and are considered as MUGH Core Alumini:

Umesh
Tameem Ansari

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MUGH Core Meet: February 2nd 2010

These are some points on what was achieved in today's meeting of the MUGH Core group.

The meeting was attended by:

Hima Bindu Vejella
Sudhakar Sadasivuni
Geetesh Bajaj

The following points were discussed to bring regularity to MUGH:

1. MUGH Core group to meet every first Sunday of the month at 10:00 am -- we are looking at getting permission to hold it in the Road no. 36, Jubilee Hills office of Microsoft. Every such meet will have two main reasons to be held:
   
   The first reason is to chart the direction for MUGH, and the second reason would be to hold special one-on-one sessions for attendees to develop skills and deploy self improvement programs.
   
   
2. There should be an UG meet each month on the 2nd Saturday of the month from 10 am to 12 noon. If the 2nd Saturday happens on a festival day or a national holiday, then the meet can move to the 3rd Saturday of that month only.
   
   We also should look into the possibility of having some UG meets in the city (Hyderabad or Secunderabad) and doing some special UG meets that are oriented towards IT Pro and Consumer tracks.
   
   
3. There should be an event held by MUGH at least every 3 months, and possibly every 2 months.
   
   
4. Revamp the MUGH site -- both Sudhakar and Geetesh have access to the MUGH blog. Hima is also being provided access to post on the blog.
   
   
5. Hima says Hyderabad Techies have asked her if they can merge and form part of MUGH -- we need to discuss this in the next monthly core MUGH meet -- every MUGH core group member is asked to attend without fail.

That's for now -- please do post your observations and suggestions as comments.

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Open XML SDK for Microsoft Office 2007

Microsoft has released SDK for Open XML formats for Office 2007. The 2007 Microsoft® Office system introduces a new file format that is based on XML called Open XML Formats.This SDK is built on top of the System.IO.Packaging API and provides strongly typed part classes to manipulate Open XML documents.

Read more at Online Version : SDK for Open XML

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Independence Day PowerPoint Templates

Indezine now provides 12 free PowerPoint templates that use an August 15th, Independence Day theme.

Look here...

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Microsoft India Webcasts for August

Vinod Kumar, Technology Evangelist at Microsoft India sent me a webcast schedule for August that includes sessions on Office Communications Server, Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2005 and Windows Vista.

There are many more webcasts on several other subjects. Registration is free, though seats are limited and restricted to a first come basis.

More info here...

Note: These webcasts are not limited to August -- so do bookmark that page!

Labels: microsoft_office, webcasts

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Share Your PowerPoints

So what do you do when you need to share your PowerPoint presentation with someone, but don't really want to hand over your PPT or PPTX file to them?

Find out in this article I guest authored at DumbLittleMan.com...

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Microsoft Works 9, Free with Ads

Microsoft has released a new version of Microsoft Works. Microsoft Works v9, the red-headed stepchild of Microsoft Office, is a free, ad supported office package offering word processing, spreadsheet and slideshow (PowerPoint) functionality.

Microsoft Works 9 may also someday be available as a Microsoft-hosted low-end productivity service, possibly through the company’s Live services, which would put it head-to-head with Google Docs & Spreadsheets and Zoho. But for the moment, Works 9 will be limited to the desktop.

More on the Wired Blog Network...

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