MVPs, VB and Me
The MVP summit was last week -- my first summit where I wasn't an MVP but instead an employee -- and what an enjoyable experience it was! It was awesome seeing MVPs from all over the world. Microsoft really throws a great summit, this year renting out the entire EMP like they did a couple years ago. The difference this year was live band karaoke and Rock Band on the XBox set up on a real stage. Remind me to pick songs I know the words to next time I get up and sing!
One of the highlights of the summit was Adam Cogan, a Visual Studio Team System MVP from Australia, who brought over some beer for me on a request from Chuck Sterling. (Chuck realized I loved beer after dinner at his place with Sara Ford.) I figured since Adam was bringing over some Australian beer he could also bring me a Victoria Bitter.... not a very good beer but I LOVE the logo. Chris Williams, Visual Basic MVP, took a picture of me holding it up in one of the VB sessions:
If you can't see it, here's a picture of the bottle:
But the beer they really wanted me to try is called Little Creatures and I highly recommend it to the hop heads out there! Unfortunately one of the bottles broke in Adam's luggage (alcohol abuse!) but he saved one. Thanks so much for the trouble Adam, REALLY! Anyone that goes that that great length to bring a girl beer around the world is #1 in my book!
Enjoy! (you know I did ;-))
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About Beth Massi
Beth is a Program Manager on the Visual Studio Community Team at Microsoft and is responsible for producing and managing content for business application developers, driving community features and team participation onto MSDN Developer Centers (http://msdn.com), and helping make Visual Studio one of the best developer tools in the world. She also produces regular content on her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi), Channel 9, and a variety of other developer sites and magazines. As a community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft developer community she also helps with the San Francisco East Bay .NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses. She loves teaching, hiking, mountain biking, and driving really fast.
