Hanselminutes Podcast 179 - Hanselminutes Live: Open Source and the Codeplex Foundation
My one-hundred-and-seventy-ninth podcast is up. In this unusual episode of Hanselminutes, organized late at night over Twitter, and recorded as a community conference call, Scott moderates a discussion on open source and the new CodePlex Foundation.
I thought that a discussion around a new Open Source Foundation should be produced as an "Open Source Conference Call." We had nearly 100 people call in and dozens had their voices heard. If you like this format, let me know! Also, follow me on Twitter as that's where these kinds of things are organized!
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Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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the CodePlex Foundation ... It will be make a difference or no .... ! ,what it will be adding in the Open Source world ..
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Looking forward to listening to this on the ride home tonight.
Regarding the foundation, I'm optimistic and hope for continued collaboration among Microsoft, its employees, and the developer community.
I see that Apache foundation has big name sponsors including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Sun, HP, and IBM. I question whether the Codeplex foundation will be able to attract additional sponsors (i.e. $$$) in order to break the implicit control Microsoft appears to have over the direction of the foundation.
Personally I am not terribly concerned over the appearance of independence, but I suspect others are more suspicious.
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I ended up on TalkShoe Pro client which was bizarre but had an interesting viewer for the chat that worked more like a timeline. With so many people talking so rapidly it got pretty hard to follow for a while there. Unfortunately I was on a pretty slow connection so when I did get through I sounded like a Cylon.
I look forward to seeing what the CodePlex Foundation does especially with regard to getting corporate customers more involved with the OSS community and tools.