Community

Community

Rai has been running Microsoft user groups for more than a decade and frequently contributes reusable artefacts and talks to the community. Rai's presentations offer clear, insightful, and engaging perspectives on understanding and applying SharePoint within organisations. He has spoken at various user groups, universities and industry events. He is also a SharePoint mentor for Hands On Day.

Recent appearances
  • Information Management in SharePoint, SharePoint Conference Australia, 2010
  • SharePoint 2010 Community Launch Melbourne - 10 Things about SharePoint
  • SharePoint Development Patterns, SharePoint Saturday Brisbane, 2010
  • SharePoint 2010 Business User, IT Professional and Developer Seminars (over 12 events, more then 1000 attendees) - in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Darwin, 2010
  • What's new in SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Saturday Melbourne, 2009
  • SharePoint 2010 Upgrade - The Fundamentals Talk, SharePoint Saturday Melbourne, 2009
  • SharePoint Secrets From the Master, Microsoft Tech Ed, 2009
  • SharePoint Geo-Deployments, SharePoint Saturday Sydney, 2009
  • Multifarm Environments, MOSSIG, 2009
  • SharePoint Social Networking Features, MOSSIG, 2008
  • Social Networking in the Enterprise, Unique World Impact, 2007
  • Business Process and Forms using SharePoint Designer and InfoPath, MSUG, 2007
User groups
  • From 2005 onwards, ran the original Melbourne SharePoint User Group, until it was merged with MOSSIG in 2007. Rai now sits on the MOSSIG board and helps out the MOSSIG team from time to time
  • Founded the now defunct Geelong .NET User Group
  • Co-founded INETA's Pakistan Chapter and lead Karachi .NET User Group until 2004
CodePlex projects
  • Rai's SharePoint Architect Collection
  • SharePoint 2010 Best Practice Checklists
  • SharePoint Content Editor Disclaimer Web Part
  • SharePoint Balloon popup aka Text Tip Solution
  • SharePoint Site Quota aka Disk Space Web Part

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