8 months ago I blogged “Thanks for the Day of Dot Net” after the first, community organized .NET day conference in St. Louis.  And in just 8 months a core team that grew from DODN 2008 raised the bar, expanded to two days, and held DODN 2009 at the Ameristar Hotel & Casino in St. Charles, MO. 

Total count of attendees, speakers, organizers, and volunteers: 500!

Over two days, nearly 60 technical sessions were delivered by industry experts, community experts, MVPs; all people who have a passion for learning, growing, and sharing that with others.  Sessions covered core .NET technologies and open source projects, free tools to improve your development cycle and strategies to use them.  To see the impact of the sessions, feedback, and carry on the conversation, just hit “the Twitter” for hashtag: #stldodn.

To the core team of organizers I raise my glass – we worked hard, it wasn’t perfect, and in the end we held the biggest STL DODN yet.  Here’s to a great 2009 and looking forward to what is coming in 2010!