From a community aspect this year's Tech-Ed proved to be an awesome event. I had the privilege of planning and hosting the community lounge this year, and it would not have been half as successful without the support and the help from an awesome team of community members, MVP's and Microsoft staff. I would like to thank various people for their involvement in the lounge.

• Du Preez Kritzinger for managing and planning the community lounge, and allowing me complete freedom with the stand.
• Amory Somers Vine for ensuring that everything ran smoothly with the speakers, the planning and the overall event.
• Ruari Plint for the guidance, support and valuable input, without which the lounge would not have worked out the way it did.
• Willy-Peter Shaub for the moral support, valuable input and having me stay at the MVP Cave. Another gem in the community space.
• Eben De Witt for the pre and post Tech-Ed support and assistance with my community work.
• Lillian Serobatse for the financial support and consistent input into community activities
• Jackie Marston for assisting and manning the stand, having taken time of work to attend.
• The MVP's for your continued support and presence at the lounge and for making the MVP Hunt such a success!
• IT Intellect, Microsoft, BBND and all the other amazing sponsors who assisted with the setup and manning of the stand.
• SA Architect, Information Worker and SA Developer.Net without whom the lounge would not even exist!
• The Delegates for attending and supporting the lounge, you are the reason we all do this!

Last, but most definitely not the least, Michelle Gray, for her continued support of my community activities and her huge amount of time and assistance in ensuring the lounge was the success it was when I was not around to man it. Considering that in between all of this she is still trying to plan and finalise our wedding in less then two weeks, I cannot thank her enough for her effort and support.

Thanks to all of you, and I hope to see every one of you back at Tech-Ed 2009!