Each month I try to post a personal review of what happened at vbCity during the previous month and this month is no exception :)
Helper Of The Month (HOTM)
Congratulations to Stephen Kendall aka R.Sole for winning the May 2005 HOTM. It was another closely fought contest this month with Stephen just pulling ahead mid month and managing to keep just ahead of djjeavons for the rest of the month.
.NET Fella
Congratulations to Dmytro Lapshyn aka DmytroL for winning the May 2005 .NET Fella Award. Dmytro is no a prolific poster but has consistently posted for almost a year now and on 3 occasions was nominated for the .NET Fella award in the past.
Newsletters
Just one devCity Newsletters was sent out in May, on May 15th. We are always on the lookout for people to write articles for our newsletter so if you would like to get involved please contact Ged Mead, aka xTab
vbCity sends out a community newsletter email once a month, usually around the last week. All registered vbCity members can choose to receive it by going to their profile, selecting preferences and then ticking the Yes, send me monthly Community Update mailing checkbox. You might notice some items from this post appear in the newsletter!
Site News
This month we changed member names Guru to Hyperactive member, see Gurus Go HyperActive. This was to reflect that Guru members are not always experts but can simply be members who have asked a lot of questions. The Guru status will now be awarded periodically to any members the leaders think deserve that status for their technical know how. Also to win HOTM you will have to be a Guru.
The leaders are also in the process of putting together a better system for handling FAQs as recently we have struggled to approve submitted FAQs in a timely manner. CanOz has volunteered to do some chasing up to help clear up the FAQ pending queue.
Metallisoft also performed some long overdue housekeeping by sorting the FAQs into more obvious categories.
We had a glut of new forums at vbCity this month. Reporting .NET, VB & Reporting, and Code Bank - .NET were all introduced.
Leader News
Each month our resident genealogist, Wonkotsane digs up some fascinating and little known facts about our new leaders and this month it was the turn of R.Sole, aka Lord Kendal
The eagle eyed amongst you might have noticed that there have been a few changes in the forum moderators. To see a list of forum moderators view the forum list and look at the right hand column. Sandtree has stepped down as the moderator of the .NET Newbies forum and has been replaced by CanOz and betrl8thanever, who has also taken up the challenge of moderating the VB.NET forum
Other News
One of most popular posts in the vbcity Lounge Forum was Thansk to vbcity brothers and sisters. I think this demonstrates the sense of community at vbCity pretty well.
From The Archives
Each month I'm going to try and bring up an interesting thread from the vbCity archives. This month I thought I'd mention first public post at vbCity, Ummm, Hello. The post was made by ex-leader Gwgross aka Gilbert Wayne Gross made a welcome return to vbCity after an extended absence. See Gilbert's comeback post.
At the end of May there were around 418,000 posts and 142,000 members at vbCity