{"id":28871,"date":"2016-12-01T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.xamarin.com\/?p=28871"},"modified":"2016-12-01T12:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T20:05:37","slug":"xamarin-developer-events-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/xamarin-developer-events-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"Xamarin Developer Events in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tIt&#8217;s been a fantastic year for the Xamarin Community, with over 100 user groups globally organizing more than 1,100 meetups and 136 Xamarin Dev Days, and after all of the awesome announcements at <a href=\"https:\/\/connectevent.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Connect(); 2016<\/a>, it&#8217;s no wonder Xamarin user groups around the world are getting together for a look at all of the new and improved tools for Xamarin developers! The end of the year is in sight, but there&#8217;s still plenty of events happening before we ring in the New Year. If you&#8217;re interested in diving into mobile development in C#, be sure to check out some of these great community events below.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/XDD-Auckland-Blog-Photo.png\" alt=\"xdd-auckland-blog-photo\" width=\"1042\" height=\"443\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-28886\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the Xamarin events happening around the world in December:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xamarin.com\/dev-days\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin Dev Days<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Around the World!<\/strong> December<\/li>\n<li><em>Join your local developer community for a free, full day of Xamarin and Azure mobile development training<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/83193\" target=\"_blank\">North Florida Xamarin User Group<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Jacksonville, FL<\/strong>, December 5<\/li>\n<li><em>Connect(); \/\/2016 Recap for Mobile Developers<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/bostonmobiledev\/events\/235781132\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Mobile C# Developers<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cambridge, MA<\/strong>, December 8<\/li>\n<li><em>Microsoft Connect Redux<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoftevents.com\/profile\/form\/index.cfm?PKformID=0x10599738be1\" target=\"_blank\">\/\/AzureReady<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/gb.png\" alt=\"gb\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>London, UK<\/strong>, December 12<\/li>\n<li><em>Azure showcase featuring keynote speakers, technical sessions, and hands-on environments<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/83118\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Xamarin Developers<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Las Vegas, NV<\/strong>, December 14<\/li>\n<li><em>Data Binding in Xamarin Forms Part 2<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/83651\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo Developers<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/br.png\" alt=\"br\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/strong>, December 14<\/li>\n<li><em>Xamarin.Android and Material Design<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/83321\" target=\"_blank\">Munich Mobile Xamarin &amp; .NET Developers Group<\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/03\/za.png\" alt=\"za\" width=\"16\" height=\"11\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Munich, Germany<\/strong>, December 15<\/li>\n<li><em>Xamarin Pizza &amp; Beer &#8211; Connect(); Recap<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/83652\" target=\"_blank\">Nashville .Net Developers<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nashville, TN<\/strong>, December 15<\/li>\n<li><em>Connect(); 2016 Recap for Mobile Developers<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Find a Xamarin Developer Group in Your Area<\/h3>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see an event above in your town or city, you can also use this map of <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/open?id=1V9Z2afKxvpEd3RirbIh2sALusl0&amp;usp=sharing\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin User Groups<\/a> to find one near you.<\/p>\n<h3>Interested in starting your own Xamarin developer group?<\/h3>\n<p>We&#8217;re here to help! Take a look at a few of these useful resources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/13080\" target=\"_blank\">Tips on Starting a Xamarin Developer Group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/discussion\/12954\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Xamarin slide deck<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Feel free to <a href=\"mailto:hello@xamarin.com\" target=\"_blank\">send us an email<\/a> or tweet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/xamarinevents\" title=\"Xamarin on Twitter\" target=\"_blank\">@XamarinEvents<\/a> to let us know about events in your area!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xamarin.com\/events\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin events page<\/a> for even more Xamarin meetups, conferences, hackathons, and other events happening near you this month.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fantastic year for the Xamarin Community, with over 100 user groups globally organizing more than 1,100 meetups and 136 Xamarin Dev Days, and after all of the awesome announcements at Microsoft Connect(); 2016, it&#8217;s no wonder Xamarin user groups around the world are getting together for a look at all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":579,"featured_media":39167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-28871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-developers","tag-events"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It&#8217;s been a fantastic year for the Xamarin Community, with over 100 user groups globally organizing more than 1,100 meetups and 136 Xamarin Dev Days, and after all of the awesome announcements at Microsoft Connect(); 2016, it&#8217;s no wonder Xamarin user groups around the world are getting together for a look at all of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/579"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}