Some 30 NEST Users and Developers attended the First NEST USER Workshop held at the Human Brain Project headquarters at Campus Biotech in Geneva, Switzerland, at the end of April, organized by the NEST Initiative with support of the HBP Education Program. The workshop combined user presentations of computational neuroscience projects based on NEST with technical tutorials, especially on writing neuron and synapse models and the impending transition of NEST source code to GitHub. We also launched the new websites for the NEST Initiative, the NEST Simulator and the nest::Developer Space.