The month of May kicks off with a major event: Release To Market of the SharePoint 2010 platform!

The echoTechnology team is celebrating this event by sponsoring the SharePoint 2010 Community Launch event at the Nectar Lounge, Wednesday May 12th, from 4 to 10pm. Free food, music, and networking at a great venue! It’s free, and you can register here. Drinks, food, and music provided by Decibel Festival. Music by DJ Alex Ruder [KEXP] and Chris Govella, as well as J-Justice [Sun Tzu Sound / TRUST]. Hosted by Erica Toelle, Joel Oleson, Owen Allen, and our very own Christian Buckley. You can follow the conversation via Twitter using #SPCLSEA

Later this week will be SharePoint Saturday Washington DC and what is looking to be the largest FREE SharePoint event to date. There’s still time to register and attend, with over 80 speakers and somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 attendees. echoTechnology will also be onsite with our partners at Axceler, and giving away a Zune HD during the raffle. Christian will be presenting once again on “Metadata Management in a Social Media World: Enabling Social Media through Metadata.” He’ll also be floating around the event in-between sessions wearing one of the “Booth Babes” t-shirts, so be sure to look for him and say hello.

Finally, on Thursday the 20th at 6pm, Christian will be presenting at the Sacramento SharePoint Users Group at the Maidu Center on metadata, governance, and enabling social media in SharePoint 2010. You can find more information on the event here. We hope to see you there!