Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft

Those of you who’ve read my little bio at the bottom of this blog may have guessed that I have a life-long passion for helping kids learn and a strong belief that technology can be a great educational tool. Next month I will be moving to a new position at Microsoft that will allow me to indulge this passion full-time as Director of Education ...

This morning, we were excited to learn that two of Microsoft’s Shared Source licenses have been approved by the OSI.  It’s been an interesting and educational couple of months since we submitted these licenses (we announced our intent in July, and submitted on August 10th.)  I personally enjoyed hearing the wide diversity of ...

Just a brief update to my OSCON blog post.  Today we started the ball rolling on the submission of our Shared Source licenses to the OSI approval process.  We are submitting two licenses, the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL) and Microsoft Community License (MS-CL).  Thank you to both Russ Nelson and Michael Tiemann for the ...

This is my first blog post on Port 25, and timely as my team and I are attending OSCON with the folks from Bill Hilf’s team. I have some thoughts regarding the future of open source and how an organization matures along with the movement it helped to create.  As Director of Source Programs at Microsoft I can attest to the value of ...