Last Saturday we had the Technical Communities Open Day. Well! in case if you are wondering what happened to the MVP Open Days we use to have here ... at the last MVP Open Day we took a decision to bring all the communities we have under one umbrella and change the name of the gathering to this new one.

This time we had a large group even after few couldn't make it even though the date was informed a month ago. Jinath, Manzi, Fiqri, Dinesh Priyankara, Gogula, couldn't make it due to various reasons. Good that we changed the name of the event because there were only 4 MVPs who participated. Padman couldn't make it as he got stuck in the Cambodia air port due to a flight delay and also Wajira informed way early that he wont be able to make it. a BIG THANKS! to all who attended. Among the participants we had Alan and myself from Microsoft, Joy, Prasanna, Shaminda and Dinesh Asanka as MVPs and Primal, Buddhika, Girisha, Senaka, Bhashitha, Ransara, Akila, Charith & Uditha joined representing the Student Champ community. Also we invited few other active members / key contributors to join the event. Among them Afraz, Preethi etc. Ah! my x-intern Thilina was also there at the event.

Main part of the event was the discussion we had about the activities we did in the past few months and to set things in place for the next couple of months. Also we spent couple of minutes on rewarding few members based on the work they have done. Among all the gifts a special souvenir was given to Prasanna for the contributions he had made over the past four years. We are going to miss him as he is heading to Australia soon. After a long discussion on how we are going to keep things going on the technical communities we started the fun activities for the day which included beach volleyball and water polo and then pool after lunch. Too bad Joy and Shaminda had to leave early.

Click the photo to see the gallery on Facebook with members tagged. If you are not on facebook yet ... I think its hi-time that you get on it. So we can 'tag' you.