Jeremy Bostron's Blog

Visual Studio Team Biographies

For some time now I have been working on idea on how Microsoft can be more open with our customers in the community.  One of the ideas that I have recently worked on was to show who is behind some of the work on Visual Studio.  My hope is that there may be some benefit to those in the community if they could find a Microsoft employee who works on technologies that they are interested in.  For instance, I thought it might be cool to list out the area of a product that a particular Microsoft employee works on and then have links to their blog or web site if they have one.  This morning, the project to do this became a real and can be found on the Visual Studio Developer Center:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/team/bios/

I would be interested to hear any feedback or ideas on if you find biographies to be valuable or not?  Also, if you would like to see this done more broadly across Microsoft teams?

 

Published Monday, April 19, 2004 12:35 PM by jerbos

Comments

 

Scott Sargent said:

I think its a great idea. Its nice to see the faces behind the names we read and write to every day on the weblogs/forums/etc.. I'd love to see more of this in the future for all sorts of teams.
April 19, 2004 12:58 PM
 

Steven Livingstone said:

Cool. Would also be nice if you could add a "watch" over some of the folks you are interested in following. This could even just ping you when their RSS feed was updated, but you would navigate to the bio's site per the link above. This way you could easier control feedback on product ideas, initiatives and issues that come up (rather thn all distributed as weblogs ae just now).

Oh, and how about when Intellisence (maybe just in beta) pops up the info about a framework class or method it has a picture of who wrote it and a link to their blog... that way you'd be able to find the person who wrote it to ask the deep and disturbing questions often required. Or something like that anyway...
June 7, 2004 2:13 PM
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