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Speaking at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention this Friday

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If there ever were a “Sara needs a hug” moment… I’m doing a talk on Friday called Towards a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem.  It’s a story about what I’ve seen and ideas I have for the future.  I actually put together this abstract 2 years ago, so it isn’t necessarily a talk about the future of CodePlex, as my day job would led you to believe.

Here’s the abstract.  Wish me luck!

“Code speaks louder than words” is a fundamental philosophy of the open source community, because developers use code to discuss code, not words. Imagine a code review over email that did not contain a single line of code. The conversation would be lost in translation. Code is the universal language in the developer ecosystem, allowing us developers to communicate with one another.

But yet, we don’t communicate universally today. We define ourselves by our business models, our developer tools, our technologies, hence defining who we converse with. But imagine if there were no definitions or boundaries, where all developers could effectively engage together. Imagine an open source ecosystem that included all developers, regardless of platform, language, or development environment.

This talk will cover go over a roadmap for striving towards this stronger open source ecosystem through current infrastructure enhancements, fostering community growth through discoverability, project incubations and sponsorships, and paving the ways for proprietary products to evaluate various methods of going open source.

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  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Sounds like an interesting talk.  You'll do a great job.

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Thanks Peter.  I'm waiting for the /. article "M$ sends woman to open source convention."

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Good luck!  Nothing about that sounds simple (though it does sound utterly necessary).

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    That is really funny! (Regarding your reply about /.) Anyway, I am glad to see the demonstrable conviction with Microsoft ranks to discuss such topics...

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Thanks!  Yeah, this talk is where i'll present my ideas about these things, so it will be interesting...

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Kudos on speaking the international language of programmers. It's nice to see people at Microsoft are continuing to embrace the Open Source model (where it makes sense.)

  • Anonymous
    July 23, 2008
    Good luck and we know you will do great.  We are proud of you and can't wait to hear the results of your talk.

  • Anonymous
    July 24, 2008
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