Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Mark Wisecarver — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:23:23 GMT

The MSFT teams are doing an awesome community service on Codeplex, I salute everyone, with honors, for this.

Something you don't see everyday at Microsoft

scooblog by josh ledgard — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 00:27:13 GMT

Source: Sara Ford's WebLog : Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Tim — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:18:39 GMT

Great, now I'm trying to ID all the toys on your window ledge.

Are plush toy collections covered by the "Nice Girls..." book? :-)

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

saraford — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 01:56:33 GMT

My window shelf from left to right:

Tigger #1 - birthday gift

Tigger #2 - gift from mom from Walt Disney World when i worked there as a popcorn vendor 10 years ago

Tigger #3 - gift

Tigger #4 - graduation gift from undergrad advisor

Tigger #5 - accidentally found his way home with me

Tigger #6 - key ring i wore on my backpack throughout college

"orange monkey thing" - gift to self sophomore year. wanted something orange in dorm room

Juggling balls - birthday gift from college friends

Got section 508? - swag from CSUN 2004 conference

GW Micro swag - from Window Eyes screen reader company. puzzle thingy you take apart and put together

JAWS "stress shark" - swag from Freedom Scientific when i took my first ever screen reader course. I would take it into stressful meetings/presentations. The right fin has almost fallen off.

Channel 9 guys - one for every Ch9 interview

Source Force - i've been collecting them all. finally got SQL Server Gal. took forever.

"Partying in the French Quarter. If found Please return me to Tujague's 823 Decatur, NOLA 70116" - badge for my family reunion in 2004. Waiting for someone to figure out i'm lost and return me home.

Imagine Cup Judge thank you gift - helped judge last year's imagine cup

5 year award - thank you note and crystal

DDCPX (our former Product Unit) Customer Champion June 2006 award - for shipping the Power Toys back in May 06

Patent cube

Mississippi State Soccer stress ball in an Ikea coin/pen holder

Chinese takeout box "Year of the Privacy Dragon" - swag i got from the cafeteria one day. I like to collect dragons.

Visual Studio Cowbell - funny story here about Company Meeting, Bill Gates, and "there will be no more rining cow bells while i'm speaking!!!"

A windows rubix cube (i hate those things)

A visual studio bandana from the Everett (VS 2003) ship party.

Mardi gras beads from 2004.

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Mario — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:17:53 GMT

This is awesome in so many ways -- keep up the good work.

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Admin — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:50:43 GMT

Hey Sara -

I just sent your blog posting to the CodePlex Team. I Happened to find it by chance from my RSS feed to MSDN blogs. Thanks for the shout out! :)

Michael Greenleaf

Microsoft CodePlex Team

www.codeplex.com

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Jim Holmes — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:02:28 GMT

Good for you! Your entire team's been terrific on this front -- and y'all build great tools, too.

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Dave Friedel — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:54:48 GMT

The open-source Java folks I know use CVS directly to projects on the net.

CodePlex requires a download, change, upload. It should allow access thru Team Explorer... unless I'm missing something.

If CodePlex does have TFS integration across the net, it's not obvious how to set it up. This one factor could make all the difference in promoting open source.

Friction-free coding! :)

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

saraford — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:35:06 GMT

Hi Dave,

Yes, you can connect to CodePlex via Team Explorer, provided you are a developer or coordinator on the project.

Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Port 25 — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:45:45 GMT

Today, a lighter post and link to Sara Ford's blog which talks about her recent presentation to Microsoft employees entitled, "Embracing Open Source on Codeplex." Sara, a developer/evangelist with Microsoft on the Visual Studio Powertoys team, has been

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

David Totzke — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 04:41:42 GMT

Hey Sara,

It was a pleasure speaking with you at the MVP Summit and in the Westin Lobby. Keep up the great work and try to show a little excitement about what you do eh?

(for those that haven't met Sara, if she was any more enthusiastic, I think she'd start shifting dimensions)

Dave

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

Swashbuckler — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:09 GMT

Did you go to college at UCF?

re: Influencing the Microsoft culture one open source presentation at a time

saraford — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:13:03 GMT

No, although i once drove by University of Central Florida's campus. I went to Miss State Univ.

EE Talk May 15: Lessons Learned Going Open Source with the Power Toys

Sara Ford's WebLog — Fri, 11 May 2007 20:27:38 GMT

Just wanted to share with you some of the internal-facing work I’ve been doing as of late. Over the past