Here I am fresh back from the second meeting of the Albury/Wodonga Dot Net User Group!

As I described in my previous post, this month's meeting was focused on content-management systems on which we will be running our web site (awdnug.org, coming soon).

In attendance were (if I recall correctly) seven people, which is not an increase on last month's figure. However, three people from last month's meeting were unable to attend, and we had three new people this month, so things look promising in that respect.

After both presentations, we kind of came to a non-decision of making an attempt at running both Community Server and DotNetNuke concurrently. Since both systems prepend their database objects with a custom string (cs_ and dnn_ respectively), the two should live in harmony on the one database and domain.

Even more interesting, both systems make use of the ASP.NET Membership Provider, so there's a chance that the site could maintain a single membership roster across both CMSes.

Right now I'm of the belief that CS will provide 99% of what the site requires. DNN has some interesting features (payment systems and some integration with PayPal piqued our interest), but in reality I believe we'll get by on pure CS for the foreseeable future.

Our next meeting will be on the 12th of July, and at this stage it looks like we'll be changing venues. More on that as news comes to hand. Rumours abound that we might be getting some high-profile support for our group, too, which is really exciting.

Once the group's web site is operational I'll post my presentation for y'all to see. It's a modest slide deck, so don't raise your expectations too high. Save those high expectations for the inevitable Comicster presentation. ;-)

So ... .NET developers (and developers in general) from the Albury/Wodonga region: See you next month!