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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://port25.technet.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : Sara Ford, Shared Source</title><link>http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Sara+Ford/Shared+Source/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: Sara Ford, Shared Source</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 40109.1145)</generator><item><title>Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time</title><link>http://port25.technet.com/archive/2007/03/14/influencing-the-microsoft-culture-one-open-source-presentation-at-a-time.aspx</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 17:38:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">af7480c4-26b7-468d-87b0-2acebabb473d:3629</guid><dc:creator>jcannon</dc:creator><slash:comments>5</slash:comments><wfw:commentRss xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/">http://port25.technet.com/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=3629</wfw:commentRss><comments>http://port25.technet.com/archive/2007/03/14/influencing-the-microsoft-culture-one-open-source-presentation-at-a-time.aspx#comments</comments><description>&lt;p&gt;Today, a lighter post and link to &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/default.aspx"&gt;Sara Ford&amp;#39;s blog&lt;/a&gt; which talks about her recent presentation to Microsoft employees entitled, &amp;quot;&lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/03/09/influencing-the-microsoft-culture-one-open-source-presentation-at-a-time.aspx"&gt;Embracing Open Source on Codeplex&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot; Sara, a developer/evangelist with Microsoft on the Visual Studio Powertoys team, has been a tireless supporter and advocate of change internally on identifying when &amp;amp; where it makes sense to embrace open source collaboration and licensing styles through offerings like &lt;a href="http://www.codeplex.com"&gt;Codeplex&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.microsoft.com/resources/sharedsource/default.mspx"&gt;Shared Source&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sara&amp;#39;s post (and some &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;great&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; pictures of grassroots marketing here on campus can &lt;a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/saraford/archive/2007/03/09/influencing-the-microsoft-culture-one-open-source-presentation-at-a-time.aspx"&gt;be found here&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://port25.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=3629" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Shared+Source/default.aspx">Shared Source</category><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Sara+Ford/default.aspx">Sara Ford</category><category domain="http://port25.technet.com/archive/tags/Community/default.aspx">Community</category></item></channel></rss>