Happy New Year! What a year 2009 has been. 2010 is surely looking like an exciting time to come.

What are your thoughts about CodeTown? Is it the software community you hope for? If you have comments or suggestions, please let me know. You can post them here as comments or send me a private message.

Thanks for your contributions to CodeTown this year. It's growing, and becoming more interesting with every post you make, whether it is a comment, a blog post, a discussion, a photo or any of the other ways you can contribute to our community.

I wish all of you the happiest of New Year's celebrations...and look forward to an even better 2010!

Michael Levin

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Comment by Jackie Gleason on January 4, 2010 at 9:13am
Since you asked for examples, Stuff like Happy Hours to network (there may be some I just may not do enough searching) or events like Startup Weekend. Basically just events that help increase strength of the Open Source/Java community as a whole in Central Florida. We even have a IT "book club" in Columbus, where each week we review a couple chapters in a book and see what we can apply. Personally though, I'm a fan of anything with more beer :-)
Comment by Jackie Gleason on January 4, 2010 at 8:11am
I think you've done a great job with the site more social or professional networking tie ins would be great! Have a great 2010 Mike and thanks for keeping this up!
Comment by Michael Levin on January 3, 2010 at 3:57pm
Happy New Year to you, too Mary. Keep an eye on the Codetown Events section...and, if you see a free event that we might like to attend, feel free to post it. If it's a commercial event, please let me know or have them contact me.
Comment by Mary on January 3, 2010 at 12:17pm
Happy New Year for everybody. I hope this year brings a lot of happiness, good friendships and spectacular technology events.
Comment by Michael Levin on December 31, 2009 at 9:23pm
Happy New Year to you, too, Jean-François! Its going to be a spectacular 2010.
Comment by Max Bonbhel on December 31, 2009 at 7:28pm
Happy New Year to you all !
And Michael : Thanks a lot for your commitment in keeping the Codetown community alive !

Happy 10th year, JCertif!

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