{"id":46861,"date":"2020-04-01T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/?p=46861"},"modified":"2020-04-01T09:01:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T16:01:21","slug":"virtual-xamarin-events-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/virtual-xamarin-events-april\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Xamarin and .NET Events in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We hope that everyone is staying safe and healthy. This month we are doing something a little different when it comes to upcoming .NET and Xamarin events. We are shifting our focus to awesome, new ways to stay active in your local community, virtually! There is exciting content from the community, teams at Microsoft, and great videos to &#8220;binge&#8221; watch all from the comfort of home. If you are a user group leader we are also here to help you throw a virtual event!<\/p>\n<h2>Upcoming Virtual Meetups<\/h2>\n<h4>Wednesday, April 8th<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/SeattleMobileDevelopers\/events\/269755021\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Mobile .NET User Group<\/a>: What&#8217;s new in Visual Studio for Mac for .NET Devs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Wednesday, April 15th<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/azxplatform\/events\/269300648\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Xamarin Developer Group<\/a>: Xamarin Shell &#038; CICD with MS App Center or DevOps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 16th<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.xamarin.com\/discussion\/180259\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Enterprise Mobile User Group<\/a>: How to Bind a 3rd Party Library for Xamarin<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/info.microsoft.com\/WE-DevComm-WBNR-FY20-04Apr-16-NetConfFocusonXamarinMilano-SRDEM15729_COVID19_LP01Registration-ForminBody.html\">Microsoft Italy<\/a>: .NET Conf &#8211; Focus on Xamarin Milano Edition<\/ul>\n<h4>Thursday, April 23rd<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Xamarin-Cologne-User-Group\/events\/269597070\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin Cologne User Group<\/a>: Building cross platform desktop applications with .NET &#8211; Konrad M\u00fcller<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Saturday, April 25th<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/ONETUG\/events\/267816898\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Orlando .NET User Group<\/a>: Global Azure Virtual Event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Tuesday, April 28th<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Birmingham-DotNet-And-Xamarin-User-Group\/events\/264156464\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham .NET &#038; Xamarin User Group<\/a>: Azure Function with Layla Porter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Host a Virtual Meetup<\/h2>\n<p>If you are a user group leader, we are here to help you host a virtual meetup &#038; find presenters. The .NET Foundation has a great <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dotnet-foundation\/wg-outreach\/issues\/10\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ongoing conversation<\/a> about several different platforms to host a meetup on. We also recorded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m85ZGXF06vk\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">full tutorial<\/a> with our friend <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jongalloway\">Jon Galloway<\/a> using Microsoft Teams&#8217; new <b>Live Event<\/b> feature to host a meetup. If you are using meetup.com for scheduling your user group events, they recently added a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/blog\/how-to-host-an-online-event-on-meetup\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Online Event Feature<\/a> to streamline hosting a meetup with one of these services.<\/p>\n<h3>Content &#038; Speakers<\/h3>\n<p>To spark some ideas for topics to present at your user group, browse our recent online conferences. All content including slides, videos, and code from the recent .NET Conf focus events and the Visual Studio for Mac Refresh(); event are available online.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dotnet-presentations\/dotNETConf\/tree\/master\/2020\/FocusOnBlazor\/Technical\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">.NET Conf &#8211; Focus on Blazor<\/a>: All things Blazor with tons of great content<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/VisualStudioForMacRefresh\/tree\/master\/Technical\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Studio for Mac Refresh();<\/a>: Hours of content on all topics of .NET development on a Mac.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dotnet-presentations\/dotNETConf\/tree\/master\/2020\/FocusOnXamarin\/Technical\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">.NET Conf &#8211; Focus on Xamarin<\/a>: 14 packed sessions on Xamarin!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For speakers, look no further than our amazing <a href=\"https:\/\/mvp.microsoft.com\/en-us\/MvpSearch?&#038;kw=xamarin&#038;ex=Developer+Technologies\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft MVPs<\/a>, who love to present on all the .NET topics. When in doubt, we are here to help with a new <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.microsoft.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR0lYQ-BAoQdMgEd876uTVu1URTlQSFdWVFEyWFdONTJYSDBIWFE2TTdRUC4u\">Xamarin User Group Speaker Request Form<\/a>. Tell us a little about your user group, dates you are looking to host, and what topic you are interested in. Then, we will try to pair you with someone from the Xamarin team to present at your user group!<\/p>\n<h2>Watch a Streamer<\/h2>\n<p>You may already know that the .NET teams host weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/dotnet.microsoft.com\/platform\/community\/standup\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">live community stand-ups<\/a> to participate in. However, did you know that the Xamarin community is also super active on live-streaming sites, such as Twitch? <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/Xamarin-Live-Streamers-1024x552.png\" alt=\"Image of different virtual Live-Streamers\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/Xamarin-Live-Streamers-1024x552.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/Xamarin-Live-Streamers-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/Xamarin-Live-Streamers-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/Xamarin-Live-Streamers.png 1513w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We have assembled a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theurlist.com\/xamarinstreamers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">full list of streamers<\/a> that stream throughout the week. Be sure to follow each one of them to stay up to date.<\/p>\n<h2>Join a .NET Stand-up<\/h2>\n<p>Multiple times a week the .NET teams meet online to talk about the latest across all .NET products. Find live, upcoming, and past episodes on new <a href=\"https:\/\/dotnet.microsoft.com\/platform\/community\/standup\">.NET Community Stand-up website<\/a>. This includes the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CNcts28prAY\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Xamarin Community Stand-up<\/a> tomorrow, <strong>April 2nd, at 10 AM PST<\/strong> with a full tooling update by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pierceboggan\">Pierce Boggan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/maddyleger1\">Maddy Legar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CNcts28prAY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<h2>Virtual .NET Conf Event &#8211; Focus on Xamarin<\/h2>\n<p>Last week, was our largest virtual Xamarin event of the year with .NET Conf &#8211; Focus on Xamarin. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/2020-02-13_15-03-26-1024x262.png\" alt=\".NET Conf Focus on Xamarin\" width=\"640\" height=\"164\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/2020-02-13_15-03-26-1024x262.png 1024w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/2020-02-13_15-03-26-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/2020-02-13_15-03-26-768x196.png 768w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/xamarin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/02\/2020-02-13_15-03-26.png 1158w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With over nine hours of content, between fourteen sessions from the Xamarin team and community members, there is tons of awesome content to binge-watch. This is because they are all available on demand! View the full playlist on both <a href=\"https:\/\/channel9.msdn.com\/Events\/dotnetConf\/Focus-on-Xamarin\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 9<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLdo4fOcmZ0oW4W_qQr_dlnKtAfTB0Ezl9\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find an awesome virtual Xamarin community user group, live-stream, community stand-up, or binge past events this April. If you are a user group leader we also have great resources to help you start up a virtual event for your user group. 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