Yes the rumor is true! Xamlgirl will be at TechEd New Zealand this year! Who is Xamlgirl? Good question..

Head on to http://www.naskhan.com/zamdes and see who Xamlgirl is.

Xamlgirl is Nas Khan and she is starting "ZamDes" - the WPF and Silverlight user group based in Wellington run by designers for designers! Nas works at Infinity Solutions and has been working on WPF/Silverlight applications. This year at TechEd NZ there will be a few sessions on Silverlight.

Nas's sidekick and PA is none other than Isha Hartono of Provoke. Isha has done some cool Silverlight apps and a few of these will be on show at the Provoke Carnival at TechEd NZ!

John-Daniel from Mindscape will also be there. Mindscape has just released "LiteSpeed"

"LightSpeed is an innovative, high performance .NET domain model and O/R mapping framework designed to accelerate your development while, at the same time, providing your application with a solid foundation based on best practice domain-driven design patterns. With features like convention-over-configuration, fast data access, model validation and data binding, it allows you to focus your efforts where they should be: Solving business problems and not writing tedious infrastructure and "plumbing" code."

Great Stuff!