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by Sam Ramji on July 25, 2008

I’m writing this from Portland, Oregon where one of the world’s largest Open Source conferences is taking place: OSCON. This year’s event is focused on a theme of “ten years of open source,” referring to 1998 as the year that Eric S. Raymond, Danese Cooper... more

• Friday, July 25, 2008
• in: Community
• Sam Ramji

Participating Actively

by Bryan Kirschner on July 23, 2008

Now that we’ve had our first “participate” event in conjunction with OSCON here in Portland, I wanted to share a few thoughts. This was a great experience and a great event—or, really, two consecutive events, the morning case study discussion and the... more

• Wednesday, July 23, 2008
• in: Community
• Bryan Kirschner

Participate08

by Bryan Kirschner on July 18, 2008

On July 21 I will have the honor and pleasure of being the sponsor, host, and an active participant in participate08 . participate08 is a one-day summit held in coordination with the O'Reilly Open Source Conference(OSCON). It is designed to facilitate... more

• Friday, July 18, 2008
• in: Community
• Bryan Kirschner

Microsoft & Sourceforge

by jcannon on June 05, 2008

Over the past four years, we’ve been working with Sourceforge on a number of unique programs to help connect developers with the code and communities that interest them. In 2004, we started the Windows Installer XML (WiX) Toolkit project on Sourceforge... more

• Thursday, June 05, 2008
• in: Community
• jcannon

Supernova

by Sam Ramji on March 19, 2008

I’m writing this from EclipseCon in Santa Clara, California, where I’m going to announce the beginning of Microsoft’s collaborative work with the Eclipse Foundation. This started about a year ago when I met Mike Milinkovich at an open source event (the... more

• Wednesday, March 19, 2008
• in: Dev Center
• Sam Ramji

NXT Up: OSBC

by jcannon on March 12, 2008

At last years, OSBC, Microsoft hosted its first annual Open Source ISV Forum. In large part, the event was focused on facilitating a discussion around enabling open source innovation on Microsoft technologies, and to help potential partners reach new... more

• Wednesday, March 12, 2008
• in: Community
• jcannon