Members of the C# Team had a "Day of Caring" during which we worked for Habitat for Humanity building homes. HFH describes their mission as follows: "[We seek] to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. Habitat invites people of all backgrounds, races and religions to build houses together in partnership with families in need."

 

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Figure 1: The C# team members who spent the day building homes for Habitat for Humanity. Back Row: Kevin Pilch-Bisson, Chris Burrows, Jeremy Meng, Mike Hopcroft, Raj Pai, DJ Park, Kirill Osenkov, Michael Blome, Marcelo Guerra Hahn, Sam Ng. Front Row: Charlie Calvert, Scott Nonenberg, Stephanie Dishneau, Mary Deyo, Karen Liu

About fifteen members of our team headed over to a building site here in Redmond, WA, and spent the day sawing, hammering, digging, caulking, painting, and doing anything else we could think of to make ourselves useful. Kevin Pilch-Bisson used pictures taken by Stephanie Dishneau to post a gallery that documents our event:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=10634&l=60964&id=500668090.

If you wave your mouse around on Steph and Kevin's pictures, you will discover that you can find out who is who in at least half the photos. Put just so you don't miss any key players, I'll point out a few faces:

  • Here is our fearless leader (aka our PUM), Mike Hopcroft, performing some crucial calculations up on the roof.
  • Raj Pai is our GPM, and my manager.
  • Scott Nonnenberg, a C# PM, is shown wielding a tool that he uses to enforce discipline in team meetings.
  • In this picture you see Mike Blome (UE aka docs), Marcelo Guerra (QA - compiler), Mary Deyo (QA - IDE), Karen Liu (IDE PM).
  • Sam and Chris are compiler devs. Kevin is an IDE Dev.
  • Kirill Osenkov, a brand new team member, is IDE QA.
  • I'm the team's community PM and my office mate DJ is an IDE PM.
  • Jeremy, shown to my right, is IDE QA.

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Figure 2: Steph took most of the pictures and hence is not featured in any but the group shots. She is our Business Administrator.