DevTeach Panel

Wednesday May 16th, 2007
In the evening at 18:00
Location:Salle de Bal
Presented by the Visual Studio Talk Show (www.visualstudiotalkshow.com)
Free to all!!!

Panel: Open Source in the Microsoft Community

Moderated By Ted Neward, this panel addresses the distinct opportunities and special challenges of using and contributing to open source software written by software developers in the Microsoft community and shaped by Microsoft culture.

Since the initial broad introduction of .NET open source with NUnit in early 2001, the Microsoft community has overcome its initial reservations with open source products, and open source tools and applications have become an integral part of .NET development and the .NET community.  Microsoft Corp's own unease with open source has transformed into an open embrace and an active effort to foster and support shared source projects with efforts like CodePlex, GotDotNet, Enterprise Library, and Rotor, among others.

With the .NET community's unique character comes a unique perspective on open source software.  This panel discussion takes a look at open source in the Microsoft community from technical, cultural, and business perspectives in a frank discussion with recognizable contributors to and users of open source software for Microsoft platforms.

Panelists will address:

• Successful open source software for Windows and .NET
• Experiences with open source adoption and use (good and bad)
• Contributing to and managing open source projects
• Using open source software in professional service engagements and product development
• Microsoft's role in the open source community (friend, foe, or 800 lb gorilla?)
• Challenges with using open source tools and components (licensing, abandonment, support, credibility)
• The kinds of innovation that happen in open source vs. commercial projects

Moderator:
Ted Neward is an independent software development architect and mentor in the Sacramento, California area. He is the author of a number of books, including "Server-Based Java Programming" (Manning), the forthcoming "Effective Enterprise Java" (Addison-Wesley) and "SSCLI Essentials" (OReilly) and co-author of "C# In a Nutshell" (OReilly) with Peter Drayton and Ben Albahari. He is also an instructor with DevelopMentor, where he teaches and authors both the Java and .NET curriculum and writes technical papers for www.javageeks.com and www.clrgeeks.com.

Panel members:

• Alan Griver. Alan is the architect for the Microsoft.com community properties that include the CodePlex and GotDotNet shared source portals, as well community conversation sites like blogs.msdn.com and forums.msdn.com. Alan was an influential presence in some the earliest cohesive Microsoft developer and shared source communities.
• Oren Eini. Oren has contributed some of the most successful open source projects, including NHibernate, MonoRail, Windsor, DynamicProxy, Boo, and Oren's own family of tools including RhinoMocks.
• Jeremy Miller. Jeremy is the owner and principal contributor to the StructureMap project and the StoryTeller project. He maintains a popular blog at CodeBetter.com focusing on software design and development practices.
• Roy Osherove. Roy is recognized leader in the .NET agile community, assists Microsoft customers with the adoption of software development lifecycle practices and tools. He is equally adapt with open source tools as well as commercial tools.
• François Beauregard. François is a certified Scrum Trainer, founder of the Montreal Agile user group and his company Pyxis Technologies is deeply involved with OSS by contributing GreenPepper's core engine to the community.

Schedule for the night

Speakers Bio

Ted Neward    Ted Neward is an independent software development architect and mentor in the Sacramento, California area. He is the author of a number of books, including "Server-Based Java Programming" (Manning), the forthcoming "Effective Enterprise Java" (Addison-Wesley) and "SSCLI Essentials" (OReilly) and co-author of "C# In a Nutshell" (OReilly) with Peter Drayton and Ben Albahari. He is also an instructor with DevelopMentor, where he teaches and authors both the Java and .NET curriculum. He speaks frequently for technology user groups (most often for the Sacramento Java User's Group), and writes technical papers for www.javageeks.com and www.clrgeeks.com. He currently labors on behalf of the University of California, Davis, architecting a rebuild of the Davis Accounting and Financial Information Services software system. Past clients include companies like Pacific Bell, EdFund, Synergex and Intuit.

Yair Alan Griver, Microsoft Corporation    Yair Alan Griver is the Group Manager for the Visual Studio Data group. As Group Manager, Alan’s teams produce the tools used inside of Visual Studio .NET, Office and SQL Server that surface data capabilities, as well as Visual FoxPro. Alan is focusing on making Microsoft’s products the best data environments for developers. Prior to this position, Alan was a Lead Program Manager and Community Evangelist for Visual Basic .NET, driving community interests into Visual Basic .NET. Before joining Microsoft, Alan was Chief Information Officer at GoAmerica, a publicly traded telecommunications (wireless internet) company, and co-founder and CIO of Flash Creative Management a business strategy and technology consulting company. Alan is the author of five books on Visual FoxPro and Visual Basic, the creator of various development frameworks, and has developed database systems ranging into the thousands of users. He has spoken around the world on databases, object orientation and development team management issues, as well as XML and messaging-based applications.

Oren Eini    Oren Eini is a senior developer in We!, a consulting group based in Israel, focusing on architecture, data access and best practices. Most often, he is working on building complex business systems using .Net 2.0, NHibernate and Castle's Frameworks, providing training and guidance for the use of Object Relational Mapping, Inversion of Control, Domain Driven Design and other exciting topics. Oren is an active member in several leading Open Source projects, including (but not limited ) NHibernate, Castle and Rhino Mocks. He had publish an article on MSDN about advance usages of Inversion of Control Containers and done a DNR TV Episode about NHibernate.

Jeremy D. Miller    Jeremy is a Senior Consultant and Agile Mentor in the New York City area with Finetix., the leading Financial Services IT consulting firm specializing in delivering custom solutions to clients trading in Capital Markets. He is helping clients to implement agile practices like Test Driven Development and Continuous Integration with .Net technologies. Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy previously worked as a systems architect building mission critical supply chain software for a Fortune 100 company and learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and the forthcoming StoryTeller (http://storyteller.tigris.org) tool for supercharged FIT testing in .Net. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy was recognized this year with an MVP award for C#.

Roy Osherove, Team Agile    Roy has spent the past decade developing and architecting software solutions for various companies in Israel and Europe. He's a Microsoft MVP and writes regularly on .NET, Agile Development Techniques and other geeky stuff on his blog and various other places such as MSDN Magazine. Roy is also a regular presenter at Microsoft Conferences such as TechEd Europe and Israel, DevDays and user groups in Israel and Europe. Roy is one of the leading voices for Agile development in Israel and is the Founder of the Agile Israel user's group - Israel’s First and only Agile-Dedicated User’s group. Roy is the principal of Team Agile: www.TeamAgile.com (i9f), a consultancy located in Israel dealing with Agile development methodologies, .NET Architecture and Design and mentoring developers. Roy’s blog is at www.ISerializable.com(i9g)

François Beauregard, Pyxis Technologies   Mr. Beauregard is president as well as senior consultant at Pyxis Technologies. He acts as coach, facilitator and consultant for organizations wishing to enhance the productivity of their software development teams and wishing to adopt an Agile approach. He is Certified Scrum Trainer since 2005. Mr. Beauregard founded the Montréal Agile Group, an interest group on Agile software development methodologies; he regularly gives presentations during the Group's monthly meeting.