Power Toys as Shared Source @ Microsoft
All about providing developer-solutions as Shared Source / Collaborative-Development
If there ever were a “Sara needs a hug” moment… I’m doing a talk on Friday called Towards a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem . It’s a story about what I’ve seen and ideas I have for the future. I actually put together this abstract 2 years ago,
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Today is the 2nd anniversary of the CodePlex launch announcement. I brought in some birthday cake on this nice, warm and sunny Friday afternoon in Seattle. CodePlex team members who are not currently on vacation. We have a few who are
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I’m sitting here looking at women’s swag apparel wondering how many women we have as project owners on CodePlex (or who work on CodePlex projects). I remember talking to a handful of women at TechEd regarding CodePlex, but i don’t recall anyone
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Microspotting - Like the paparazzi, but for geeks. Here's my interview with Ariel, where we talk about community, blogging, CodePlex, agile development, and of course open source: Sara Ford on what Microsoft can learn from open source
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It's funny that I've never actually given a formal talk at a conference before, and at this year's TechEd, I'll will give two talks =) Just don't tell me to break a leg. We don't need another TechEd Scooter-Cam 1 (or a bob haircut!). Also
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Back in my power toy days, Matt Manela was a developer intern on our team, which you might remember from this post about writing a custom Visual Studio editor . Well, he came back full time last fall, and was just recently featured on .NET Rocks
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It's funny to read blog posts from a year ago, like my OSCON 2008 Here I come... I hope! Well, it is that time of year again for OSCON submissions, thinkweek papers, and LE MARDI GRAS!! I've submitted two talks for OSCON 2008: Towards a stronger
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First, thanks to Chris Woodruff who tirelessly hosted podcast after podcast after podcast the entire 3 days. Thanks again Chris for doing a podcast with me! And also my thanks to Michael Kimsal for hosting the open source open space podcast
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At CodeMash 2008 , I had an incredible opportunity to meet 1-1 with many various users of CodePlex, from those who run projects to those who download them. Thanks to everyone for their valuable input and making the time to discuss their ideas with
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Although I chose the wrong line at the border to reenter the US, adding an extra 45 minutes to the wait, I successfully completed my first solo trip into Canada to sit on the DevTeach open source panel. You can find the recording as .NET Rocks! episode
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Tomorrow, I'm going to swing by http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com to watch my fellow Microsofties Beth Massi (VB Community) and Mahesh Prakriya (IronPython) give presentations. Both are *excellent* presenters and I highly recommend attending one of
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Yesterday, my Channel 9 interview went live that we did about a month ago on Blogging and Katrina (2 years in review), and of course, women in technology. You'll note that I'm still talking about the power toys stuff, because my transition to the CodePlex
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I'm very excited to announce that today is my first day as the Program Manager for CodePlex , Microsoft's open source project hosting website!! So yes, you can send feature requests directly to me now (or, more preferably, continue to use the site). This
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Since almost everyone has asked me to share this story on my blog... On Friday, after the conference was over, I drove my little scooter to the Subway near the convention center, about 2 blocks away. On my return, a guy sitting at a Starbucks asks me
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On our one-year anniversary of our power toys release, I gave a Microsoft Engineering Excellence Talk on the lessons we learned the hard way “going open,” to motivate other teams to explore all the way they can embrace their communities, including sharing
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