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August 2006 - Posts

Country Visits: Conclusion

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:26 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
The last 2 weeks I have been visiting the people in the different Microsoft subsidiaries who are driving the local efforts for Tech Ed: Developers and Tech Ed: IT Forum . I was in Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. The Read More...
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Country Visit: Finland

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:17 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
4th Scandinavian country in 4 days. I know now how expensive alcohol and taxis are over here :-). Almost complete silence in the Microsoft Office. They are having their annual company meeting to align and inform the business units about their Finnish Read More...
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Country Visit: Sweden

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:12 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
This is my 3rd Scandinavian country in 3 days. I love Scandinavia; not for it winter weather but the way they work: well organized, structured, to the point. Not a lot of blabla and beating around the bush. I like their style; it fits with mine and in Read More...
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New Belgian MSDN Website

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 3:07 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
Tom Mertens (my successor when I left MS Belgium for MS EMEA) and Wim Verhaeghen have redesigned the Belgian MSDN website. Amazing. Definitely worth looking at www.msdn.be . Read More...
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Country Visit: Denmark

Posted Tuesday, August 29, 2006 5:23 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
Also autumn in Copenhagen. Unfortunately. Tivoli park looks sad in this weather. Just met with Dorthe and Charlotte, the Danish champs. Quite a different meeting than the other country visits for the simple reason that both of them are quite new to Microsoft. Read More...
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Country Visit: Norway

Posted Monday, August 28, 2006 11:51 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
Oslo is already really feeling like autumn :-(. Met with Stig Nerland and Rune Zakariassen, the Norwegian champs. Stig I know from last year. Rune is new to me and came across as a very switched on guy. He is actually more a technical person working with Read More...
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Country Visit: Belgium

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:39 AM by Gerd De Bruycker
After our content triage meeting for the developer event (Thursday 24/08) in Brussels I met with the Belgian country champs; Tom Mertens (visit his blog ) and Ritchie Houtmeyers. Nice to see Belgian colleagues again, since I am more in London than in Read More...
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Country Visit: Germany

Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 11:31 AM by Gerd De Bruycker
Wednesday 23 August I visited the German subsidiary in Munich and met with the German country champs for Tech Ed: Developers and Tech Ed: IT Forum. Roberto is a MS veteran and Joern is rather new at MS, which gives me pretty good information about the Read More...
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Country Visit: Switzerland

Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:09 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
Over the next 2 weeks I am visiting different Microsoft subsidiaries to have a catch up with the local country champs of both events. A country champ is the single point of contact within the subsidiary for our events. Together with us they drive the Read More...
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.NET Rocks is coming

Posted Wednesday, August 23, 2006 3:05 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
.NET Rocks is coming to Tech Ed: Developers. Carl Franklins and Richard Campbell will be speaking and do a couple of .NET Rocks shows in Barcelona . Further they are running a contest over the following weeks and the winner gets a free ticket, flight Read More...
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Speaker Idol

Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 4:27 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
Every year a lot of non-Microsoft people would like to speak at Tech Ed. Unfortunately we have to disappoint the bulk of these applications for different reasons; product team members are speaking, technology is brand new, quality of the speaker must Read More...
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A New Beginning ...

Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 5:32 PM by Gerd De Bruycker
Yes I know ... It is a long time since I have posted. But I hope for the good reasons. The day after my last post my wife gave birth to our first child Norah - quite unexpectedly, 7 weeks early. Everything is going really well and after enjoying her first Read More...
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