"john conwell" wrote:

> I'm sure this isn't the best place to put this, but I don’t know of another
> place where I'll get performance people to see it.
>
> I'm wanting to try and put together a Seattle (and surrounding areas)
> Software Performance User Group. Basically a way for us Performance folks to
> get together and share ideas and maybe get some speakers from surrounding
> companies to come talk.
>
> People who might be interested? Performance engineers, programmers who
> spend time investigating perf issues, performance testers. Basically anybody
> who works with software performance in one capacity or another on a regular
> bases (or not!).
>
> What kind of stuff we might cover? Performance testing and automated
> testing, performance test result storage and reporting, profiling, tools,
> troubleshooting and investigation, best practices, design patterns / anti
> patterns, code analysis, code and database performance issues, what is .Net
> doing behind the scenes, what is SQL Server doing behind the scenes.
> Anything else?
>
> My main goal for this kind of group would be a place where we can share the
> lessons we've learned, ask questions problems that we might have, and create
> a local community of performance professionals.
>
> Would anyone in the Seattle area be interested in getting involved in