Ian Dixon

I know it’s been a long time coming but I finally have a date and location for the first UK Windows Media Center User Group Event. April 21st at Aston Science Park in Birmingham will be the place to be to meet like minded enthusiast and industry experts, we plan to have talks on advanced Windows Media Center, developing for Windows Media Center, Windows Home Server and a look at Windows 7 amongst other subjects.

If you have any suggestions for topics or you would like to present at the event let me know and on Monday I will post a link to register. I am really looking forward to the event, it should be fun, informative and we should have a great conversation. I am also going to try and get hold of some swag and I should have a couple of The Digital Lifestyle.com t-shirts to give away (now that must make you want to come!)

The first step is to register for the User Group on The Digital Lifestyle.com and on Monday I will post the registration details and if you can’t make it but want to be a part of it we hope to have at least one webcam and will be posting some of the resources on the user group blog

Simon May and I have been looking for a way to really bring Windows Media Center users and enthusiasts together, we both live in the UK and we think there's some great fun to be had by getting the enthusiast community meeting each other.  At this kind of event we'd hope to share our knowledge, bring in some exciting guest speakers both from within the community and the vendors and maybe even some system installers.

Most of all we want the events to be fun, and for everyone to get something out of them that they're going to enjoy.  We want to officially open up the conversation on this so that we know what you'd like to see.  So right now, if you're in the UK and would be interested in attending an event or two, pop over to groups and join the UK Windows Media Center and Home Server User group.  That's where we'll be having the conversation and getting things setup.

We will be looking at various technologies that connect with Windows Media Center like Windows Home Server, home automation and Extenders and looking how we can use the technologies available to us to enhance our digital lifestyles.

So sign up and lets start the conversation!