Source: NUNUG 2026 meeting announcements (Forge Utah Slack)
source confidence: Medium status: Useful updated 2026-08-11
Summary
Four monthly meeting announcements posted to the Forge Utah Slack #localevents channel by Phil
Gilmore between March and July 2026. Together they are the only located evidence that NUNUG is
currently operating, because its own website has a news feed that stops
in 2020 and a "next meeting" slot reading TBA.
They also date a restart. The March 2026 announcement calls that meeting a "comeback meeting", which is the simplest explanation for a live group behind a dormant-looking site.
Useful Claims
- NUNUG resumed meeting in March 2026 after a gap, and the March meeting was announced as a comeback meeting.
- Meetings ran monthly and consecutively from March through July 2026, on the second Thursday, at 6:30 PM, hybrid — in person at Mindfire's Layton office and online via Microsoft Teams.
- Named sessions and presenters: 2026-03-12 "Comeback meeting — Catch up with .NET!" (George Ray); 2026-04-09 "High Performance C#" (Nate Zaugg); 2026-06-11 "Test Driven Development with AI" (George Ray); 2026-07-09 "The Good, The Bad, and The Hallucinated: AI Coding in .NET" (Ken Bailey), held with the group's annual BBQ.
- Programming has turned toward AI-assisted development: three of the four announced topics concern AI in a .NET context.
- Food policy varies by meeting and is stated in each announcement ("come fed" for regular meetings, "come hungry" for the BBQ).
Verbatim
Each quote carries its speaker, channel, workspace, and date, because Slack message history is not durable and the quote has to stand on its own once the original is gone. Slack link markup is reduced to plain text; nothing else is altered.
Join us for our comeback meeting! The .NET platform has undergone a remarkable transformation over the past few years, shipping a new major version every November. George Ray will take us on a journey through six versions of .NET — from the stability of .NET 6 through to the AI-integrated powerhouse of .NET 10 — exploring the most impactful features each release brought to the table. This is a hybrid meeting! — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-03-10, announcing the 2026-03-12 meeting
Topic: High Performance C# Presenter: Nate Zaugg Date: 2026-04-09 (Thursday) Time: 06:30PM — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-04-05
Topic: BBQ Party + The Good, The Bad, and The Hallucinated: AI Coding in .NET Presenter: Ken Bailey Date: 2026-07-09 Time: 06:30PM — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-07-06
Join us in-person (come fed - food will not be provided): Mindfire Office 872 W Heritage Park Blvd STE 200 Layton, UT — Phil Gilmore, #localevents (Forge Utah Slack), 2026-06-08, announcing the 2026-06-11 meeting
Reliability Notes
The Forge Utah Slack is an open community workspace, joinable by anyone from the foundation's
homepage, and #localevents is a public announcement channel. Material posted there is public in the
sense that matters for citation — comparable to a public forum post — and these are event
announcements written to be spread as widely as possible, not private conversation.
What still makes this testimony rather than official-page is durability, not privacy. The
permalink resolves only once you are signed in to the workspace, so no script can fetch it and the
Internet Archive cannot snapshot it; Slack retention will eventually remove the message regardless of
anyone's intent. That is why this page carries no **Retrieved:**, no **Archive:**, and no
**Raw:** — their absence is the honest signal — and why the quotes above are reproduced at length.
The governing rule is in meta/attributes.md under "Community-channel testimony"; the capture
question it raises is worked through in research/raw-data/class-c-private-ephemeral-sources.md.
On tier: these are the group's own organizer describing his own group, so on subject matter they sit level with the group's website. Their value is not authority but recency and dating. They are consecutive, each is timestamped, and they are the only thing distinguishing an active group from an abandoned one.
The hard limit: an announcement is a plan. This source establishes that meetings were scheduled, with a named presenter and topic, on a stated date. It is not evidence that any meeting took place or that anyone attended, and no page should cite it for attendance.
Related Pages
Raw markdown for agents and citation: https://greatutah.work/pages/nunug-2026-meeting-announcements.md
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