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Sara Ford
Program Manager, Microsoft Corporation

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Sara Ford is the Program Manager for CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. Previously, she worked on the Visual Studio team at Microsoft for 6 years. Her life-long goal is to become a 97-year-old weightlifter, so she can be featured on the local news.

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10:45am Friday, 07/25/2008

Toward a Stronger Open Source Ecosystem

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Location: D139/140

Sara Ford (Microsoft Corporation)

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Today’s developer ecosystem is fragmented based on business models, developer tools, and technologies. Imagine an ecosystem for all developers to collaborate, regardless of technology or platform. This talk outlines a roadmap towards this stronger open source ecosystem through infrastructure, project incubation and sponsorship, and support for open source as a collaborative development model. Read more.