You’re invited to help us celebrate an unlikely pairing in open source by Gianugo Rabellino.
From the post:
We are just days away from reaching a significant milestone for our team and the open source and open standards communities: the first anniversary of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. (MS Open Tech) — a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft.
We can’t think of anyone better to celebrate with than YOU, the members of the open source and open standards community and technology industry who have helped us along on our adventure over the past year.
We’d like to extend an open (pun intended!) invitation to celebrate with us on April 25, and share your burning questions on the future of the subsidiary, open source at-large and how MS Open Tech can better connect with the developer community to present even more choice and freedom.
I’ll be proud to share the stage with our amazing MS Open Tech leadership team: Jean Paoli, President; Kamaljit Bath, Engineering team leader; and Paul Cotton, Standards team leader and Co-Chair of the W3C HTML Working Group.
You have three choices:
- You can be a hard ass and stay home to “punish” MS for real and imagined slights and sins over the years. (You won’t be missed.)
- You can be obnoxious and attend, doing your best to not have a good time and trying to keep others from having a good time. (Better to stay home.)
- You can attend, have a good time, ask good questions, encourage more innovation and support by Microsoft for the open source and open standards communities.
Microsoft is going to be a major player in whatever solution to semantic interoperability catches on.
If that is topic maps, then Microsoft will be into topic maps.
I would prefer that be under the open source/open standards banner.
Distance prevents me from attending but I will be there in spirit!
Happy Anniversary to Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc.!