Bonus Sessions / User group night

Panel:The future of Microsoft and Open Source

Moderated By Carl Fraklin and Richard Campbell

While it seemed in the early days that Microsoft would never have anything to do with Open Source, today Microsoft releases code and projects into the open source community, and the community creates projects on the Microsoft platform every day. But what does the future hold? Is the relationship between Open Source and Microsoft a temporary one? Join Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell from .NET Rocks as they moderate this panel discussion on the future of Open Source and Microsoft. Our panellists include folks who've created Open Source projects on the Microsoft platform, those that utilize Open Source projects on the Microsoft platform, and even a Microsoft employee! Attend this session to get your questions answered and join the discussion!

Panel members:

• Rod Paddock
• Shaun Walker
• Beth Massi
• Rob Chartier

Schedule for the night

Time	Event
17h45 - 18h30	Free Registration for all
18h30 - 19h45	Speakers Panel
19h45 - 19h55	Break
20h00 - 21h30	Speakers Panel

Panel host:

• Carl Fanklin
• Richard Campbell

Sponsor by

Speakers Bio

Rod Paddock, Dash Point Software, Inc.     Rod is president and founder of Dash Point Software, Inc. DPSI is an award winning software company based in Seattle, WA, specializing in application development and software training. Dash Point specializes in Visual Studio .NET, VB 6, Visual FoxPro, and SQL Server development. Dash Point Software was the winner of the 1999 Visual FoxPro Excellence Award and a finalist in 1998. Dash Point was also a finalist in 1996 at Windows World Open. Rod has been a very popular speaker at a wide variety of developer conferences in North America and Europe since 1995. His most recent speaking appearance was at the XML Connections conference in October 2002. Rod is the editor for CoDe Magazine and his writing credits include articles for database publications such as Data Based Advisor, FoxTalk and Dbase Advisor. He has also authored a number of books including Visual Basic 5 for Web Development, Visual Basic 6 for Web Development, and Visual FoxPro 6.0 Enterprise Development. Rod is also the V.P. of Technology for Red Matrix Technologies and the architectural visionary behind the DataClas middle-tier component and SQLAudit product lines.

Shaun Walker, DotNetNuke Corporation   Shaun Walker (MVP, ASPInsider) is CEO of DotNetNuke Corporation. Shaun has 15 years professional experience in architecting and implementing large scale software solutions for private and public organizations. Shaun is the original creator and maintainer of DotNetNuke, a Web Application Framework for ASP.NET which has spawned the largest and most successful Open Source community project on the Microsoft platform. Based on his significant community contributions he was recognized as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in 2004 and an ASPInsider in 2005. He is a frequent speaker at User Groups in his local area and is a contributing author to the WROX Press book "Professional DotNetNuke 4 - Open Source Web Application Framework".

Beth Massi, Microsoft Corporation     Beth Massi is a Program Manager at Microsoft on the Visual Studio Community Team working with the Visual Basic Team producing developer content on MSDN (http://msdn.com/vbasic/) and her blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/bethmassi). As a VB community champion and a long-time member of the Microsoft community she also helps run the East Bay.NET user group and is a frequent speaker at various software development events. Before Microsoft, she was a Senior Architect at a health care software product company and a Microsoft Solutions Architect MVP. Over the last decade she has worked on distributed applications and frameworks, web and Windows-based applications using Microsoft development tools in a variety of businesses.

Rob Chartier, Vancouver Tech Fest     Rob Chartier has developed IT solutions for more than 13 years with a diverse background in both software and hardware development. He is internationally recognized as an innovative thinker and leading IT architect with frequent speaking engagements showcasing his expertise. He's been an integral part of many open forums on cutting-edge technology, including the .NET Framework and Distributed Computing. He uses expertise with many Microsoft technologies, including .NET, and a strong background in Oracle, BEA Systems, Inc.'s BEA WebLogic, IBM, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition (J2EE), and similar technologies to support his award-winning writing. He frequently publishes to many of the leading developer and industry support Web sites and publications. He has a bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems. He has been awarded the Microsoft MVP status in Asp/ASP.NET for the past 4 years and has been a member of the AspInsiders since its inception.

Panel host:

Carl Franklin, Franklin's Net      Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary’s VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

Richard Campbell, Strangeloop Networks       Richard Campbell is one of the co-founders of Strangeloop Networks and today serves as product evangelist, introducing the company’s unique story to advisors, investors, patent attorneys, beta-customer candidates, potential employees, etc. Richard has more than 30 years of high-tech experience and is both a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). He has consulted with a number of leading North American organizations; Barnes&Noble.com, Dow Chemical, Johnson & Johnson Health Care Services, Reuters, Subaru/Isuzu and the U.S. Air Force. Richard is co-host of the “.NET Rocks!, the Internet Audio Talk Show for .NET Developers” podcast, host of “RunAs Radio, the Internet Audio Talks for IT Professionals” podcast, has been co-authoring of the “Advisor Answers” column on SQL Server for more than ten years and author of the courseware for AppDev's national SQL Server 7.0 training seminars and video series.