I'd love to see some of the ALT.NET passion come back around the .Net core space... but it feels like you can't attend a meeting/presentation that isn't also tethered to Azure demos. I mean, I actually like/appreciate what Azure offers, but it was the feeling that every MS presentation was a sales demo for Azure that drove me away from attending the local presentations several years ago.

ScottGu presents in the Phoenix area with a few others once a year, and I always really enjoyed it. I don't recall what year it was (2012 I think) that pretty much every demo was an Azure demo, that I just stopped going to them, and the local user groups as well.

I'm genuinely interested in .Net core... I love VS Code... but I'm not interested in an Azure sales demo.