What a great meeting last night. With over 42 attendees, all chatting over a cold frothy, we got off to a great start.

First was the latest technology news, hotly debated with opinions from all sides of the technology spectrum.

This was followed by Don Kerr, MS Product Manager for Windows Phone, who gave us the run down on WP7 Series, and more importantly where to look for news (Gamer Developers Conference, Charlie Kindel’s Blog) and what to expect over the coming year.

This was met with an honest enthusiasm (almost a sigh of relief “Finally….”) although the jury’s out, waiting for the next developments from Android and Apple. Nevertheless with the power of XNA, LiveID, Social Media Connect, and XBox Live (not to mention Exchange Activesync, Sharepoint, and Office for Enterprise) the consensus is that MS will still be in the game, despite Android 3 and iPhone 4.

Next up was the ever delectable Anina Net chatting about her journey from the Fashion world into the Mobile Tech World, culminating with Mobile Magazines.

Charlie did a fantastic job, and the City Hotel is an awesome venue. Proved by how late most attendees stayed, networking over pub food and bevvies.

Next month is already looking promising for continuing this series on High Calibre Speakers. It does get geeky, but never dull.

Of course, I was there with the Community Cam(tm).

This weeks coffee morning was the lowest attended yet, but arguably highest value morning for me personally. The benefit of having a small group is the depth of the conversation you can have.

So this weeks CoffeeCam(tm) took the time to capture just a little of where we hold the North West Coffee Morning.

Check out our very first Sydney Mobile UG Mobile Magazine. Click on the link to install it on your phone, no matter what type of phone you have.

http://mobilemags.360fashion.net/em/magp.jsp?mag=March_9_Usergroup&co=uk

Then SMS it to your friends and colleagues to share this with them. I know this is an event brochure, but the possibilities are endless – support, product launches, pricing, market surveys, lightning talks (20 pages = 20 slides), heck even your CV.

Think also about integrating the web and the real world at the device where they meet: on your phone.

Pass this invitation on and for more information, please join us on Tuesday night, 9 March, at the City Hotel from 18:30. see you there.

Well, they did it, in a healthy 3hrs30. Not bad for 55kms, their first long ride. Of course I caught the beginning and end on Video As you can see, they started to a grey dawn, and finished at a festival affair.

If you have sponsored them, thank you very much. If you haven’t yet, but would like to, please click on this link and donate what you can afford. Lu went in with a goal of completing the ride, and raising $200. I’d say she blew those two targets away…