Congrats Dennis!

Left To Right
Top Row:Paul Schaeflein, Justin Moore, Mark Burleson, Jeremy Marx, Jason Lee, Fady Eldeiry, Jason Powell, Mark Moreno, Isaac Neibeling, Steve Huffman, Alan Adcock, Jared Barden, Terry Rugg, David Hutchison
Middle Row: Jeremie Kilgore, David Albright, Matthew VanAndel, Ed Buford, Shawn Ross, Mark Johnson, Dennis Swinehart, Timothy Larson , J. Mac Brown, Jason Blanchard, Jeremy Good , Kurt Donnan, Terry Dabbs, Bill English
Front Row: Jim Cusey, Pam Matthews, Dave Mast, Cisco Ospina, Linda Cleveland, Beth Hayes, Anna English, Nancy Graham, Gregory Fisher, Doug Alvis

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Here are some photos thru today..

Where did the Northwoods Staff Go? All 4 are missing….

Fady, working hard or Hardly working???

A few were hanging around after the service tonight so they came over for a little Stand up comedy by Jerry Seinfeld… There was a marginal drop in bandwidth at my house when all the laptops came out of the bags…

Well its time for sleep for an early morning tomorrow… Training starts back up at 8:30 am…

This morning Fady won a gift card to Best Buy (aka the mothership) in our morning door prize… it helps to be ‘In Your Seat’ at start time… (sorry ed… i really do feel badly).

SharePoint Server Training less than 12 hours away….. Well we met at the church tonight at 5:30 and got everything setup.  Bill brought two Huge screens so it will be great even for the likes of Ed Buford who i found out tonight is about as blind as a bat.

I was either too busy setting up, doing introductions, or something….(Insert Jim or Jeremie sarcastic remark here I suppose) I didn’t get a single photo taken… But I am quite sure JP, Jeremie and Justin documented the night well…

For those in the ChurchIT biggest loser contest, Jason and Ed did eat celery at BW3’s so they are still on track.

Now the task for tonight is Buckeye making…  for the BIG game tomorrow night.  OH-IO

Melting the Chocolate

Dipping the Peanut-butter

The finished product

GO BUCKS!

Most attendees are arriving into Peoria Sunday night, so we are planning an optional dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings in Peoria at 7pm.  (Note: this meal isn’t included in your registration)

The Northwoods IT staff will head over to BW’s after we setup at the church.  If you plan to join us leave a comment and we’ll hold you a seat.

Directions from AmericInn Lodge and Suites to Buffalo Wild Wings:
Travel North on N. Knoxville Ave to Rt. 6
Take Route 6 West towards I-74/I-474 (back towards Peoria Airport)
Exit Route 6 at Rt. 150/War Memorial Drive
Turn Right on Rt. 91 (You will see the Grand Prairie Mall)
Turn Left on West American Prairie Drive BW’s is on the Right.

• Bill will be providing two Virtual PC images for the the training.  It is very important that you download and install Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 on your laptop before you arrive Monday morning.
  • You DO NOT need to install SharePoint Server or WSS 3.0 on your physical base OS install on your laptop.  Your enviorment for the training will be in the virtual servers provided.
• Our training is a combining two courses into one class, so while we won’t be able to cover 10 days of classes into 5 days we will be covering SharePoint Admin and SharePoint Desinger.  Here are Syllabi for the two full courses that Bill will be pulling our hybrid content from:
  • Core Technologies in Office SharePoint Server 2007
  • Customize SharePoint Sites Without Writing Code Using SharePoint Desinger 2007
• Our Monday Schedule:
  • 8:00am - 8:30am Registration
  • 8:30am Session 1 Begins
  • Noon Lunch
  • 4:30pm End

Have Transportation to share:

• Cisco Ospina, Nancy Gram and Justin Moore are sharing a car and will have an extra seat or possiby two if someone needs a ride to and from the hotel Monday – Friday.
• Bob Schwarz and Mark Johnson will fly into Chicago O’hare Airport and are willing/able to share travel costs to Peoria.  Bob and Mark will  fly into O’hare Sunday afternoon (return Friday evening) and will have a rental car with room for 1 or 2 additional passengers to and from the AmericInn.
• Mark Moreno is staying at the SprinHill Suites Hotel and will have 3 seats to and from the training.
• Tim Larson will be flying in to Bloomington/Normal (about 45 minutes away from Peoria) at 5:30 Sunday night and if anyone is flying into BMI about the same time needs a ride, he will have two seats open in his car.  He will fly out on Friday night at 6 pm.

Need Transportation:

• Matthew Vanandel would like a ride to and from the Hotel.
• J.Mac Brown needs a ride from Chicago O’Hare (arrives into O’hare at 1pm sunday)

If you have travel needs or rides to share, comment below and I’ll update this post.

Additionally, if you are traveling by air, you might want to pack an extra bag. Bill has indicated that AWESOME FREE courseware you will be given at the training is two very large and heavy notebooks.  In an email to me Bill Comments “It will be two rather thick binders – heavy too.  People should bring extra luggage to take home the binders.  I’m not kidding.” So I am passing this information along to you.

You might also want to check the weather this weekend, right now its single digit temperatures, but we should be around 50 by the weekend… but i won’t guarantee those temps will last during the second week of January in Peoria!

If you haven’t registered yet, and you are planning to attend, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  If you are wavering as to are you going to attend why not, ITS FREE!

For Church Employees/Volunteer “Staff” Register Here

For Consultants and Vendors Serving the Church market Register Here

The price for the training for individuals in the for-profit sector is $2495 ($1000 discount by Bill English for our event).  This includes the Course, Courseware, Snacks and Lunch during the 5 day training.

The registration is now open.  If you have a consultant who serves your church have them register along with you and attend the training together.

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