The group was originally formed in 2007 by "Inbar Gazit" after leaving a position as a senior program manager working on the C# CLR team based out of Microsoft at seattle in the U.S.A Inbar started the group (Originally called "C# Proffessionals") in order to meet and network with other C# developers, and get to know other developers in the C# community. In early 2009 Inbar met and teamed up with then microsoft developer evangelist "Zain Naboulsi" and "Charles Cozad" from intel. A few months later, "Brian H Madsen" (A .Net MVP) working for fujitsu in Australia joined the team, and together they renamed the group "The Linked.NET users group". After a short while, and after repetitive use of "LiDNUG" as a shortened term of the full group name, "LiDNUG" as a name started to stick, and as the Linked-In groups platform started to grow, and members started to join the group, "LiDNUG" soon became the groups official name. In early 2010 with memebership numbers rising and a healthy community of many discussions the group started to do regular online live webinarpresentations for it's members. Chief among these was none other than .NET legend "Scott 'The Gu' Guthrie" credited with the invention of the original .NET framework. As numbers grew, and presentations (and presenters) multiplied, it was obvious that extra staff where needed to keep things running smoothly. In mid 2010, 2 new faces "Asit Aithal" and "Peter Shaw" showed up in the group. Beacuse of the skills and knowledge of the I.T and .NET tools they had available to them, they quickly started to help out in the group, answering questions, fostering and helping to grow various discussions, something that didn't go un-noticed by the current team, a few months later Asit and Peter were asked if they wanted to join the managment team and help run the group.