Microsoft Conference for Developer Community Leaders
I received the following e-mail in my inbox last night:
You are cordially invited to participate in an open forum designed to generate many questions and provide some answers to the tough issues you may face in your daily work life. You have been selected due to your influence in the developer community. You have established yourself as a force in your community, with your pen, or in your leadership. We want to start a dialog with you regarding our products. Our hope is that these dialogs that will encourage both questions and comments, as well as give us a chance to get to know you.
What: 1st Annual Technology Summit for the Developer Community Leaders
When: March 15-18, 2005
Where: Corporate Campus -- Redmond, Washington
Complete travel and expenses will be covered by your sponsoring Developer Evangelist from Microsoft. In addition to the intense 2 1/2 days of technical content, we will be hosting evening "Simply Seattle" events to showcase some of the best Seattle has to offer and to provide time to get to know one another and your Microsoft hosts.
I'm thinking about doing it because it sounds like a heckuva opportunity with some pretty smart folks. Looks like March is shaping up to be a month of conferences, with TheServerSide Symposium starting two weeks from tomorrow.
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Posted by Vic on February 17, 2005 at 12:42 AM MST #
Congratulations on the recognition!
Either way it sounds like it would be worth it just for the "Simply Seattle" events and travel coverage. ;)
Beyond that, you will no doubt have some great discussion. I know that I rather enjoy my MS friends and appreciate their input/reflection, even though they pleasure themselves in mocking my J2EE/OSS preaching.
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