Last night, I visited the Fort Worth .NET Users Group that was held at the Justin Brands facilities in Fort Worth. Man! Great facilities. A fairly small crowd but they did Mr. Jim's Pizza and served Coke (not that other Peptic drink). The Fort Worth folks had quite a few good things going for them. They strike me as non-pretentious and "eager-to-learn" individuals who seem pretty open to good ideas - can you say Mono developers. I met a cool dude called Cory Smith, that may likely be a good source of testing some of the MBas and VB.NET development for Mono.

My cube mate Scott Dockendorf, did a newly revised version of his Test Driven Development presentation. I believe that he may have finally made a convert out of me. Well done Scott!

Joseph Hill also attended the event. That gave us the opportunity to get caught up and to talk to Stephen Swienton, the president of the Fort Worth .NET Users Group about the possibility and level of interest to give a presentation about Mono to the Cow Town community. I think they were very fired up about the prospect and we talked abut a late January 2005 date.

One more thing, Joseph has put together a guide to install Red-Carpet and Mono on SuSe 9.1 Personal. For those of you who don�t know, SuSe personal is the version you can buy for about $29.95 on some electronic super stores and the like but as usual, it comes pre-configure with KDE but not GNOME. Also important is that you can download the ISO image for the disc at the SuSe FTP site.