Board:   [DeveloperNet] C#
Subject: Re: New features in C# 4.
From:    art
Date:    Wed May 25, 2011 12:15

  Re: Re: New features in C# 4.0
  By: Nightfox to art on Tue May 24 2011 22:46:52

Hey Nightfox,

 > I'm planning to go to this year's Code Camp here in Portland again

I've never been to these CodeCons, but they sound interesting--are they
streaming talks, providing them for downloading after, etc? Some of the talks
look quite interesting. Others are... how shall we say... sounding quite
commercial ;)

 > Speaking of that Code Camp event, they say they are technology-agnostic, but
 > looks like many of their presentations are fairly Microsoft-centric.  I'd
 > to see more open-source presentations there (things like PHP, Linux, Python,
 > Perl, Ruby, etc. don't seem represented at all there) - but one of the
 > sponsors
 > of this annual event is Microsoft, which might explain that..

You can see that in two ways: good or bad.

As you've stated the negative is that there's less open source presentations.

The positive viewpoint is that Microsoft is getting involved in what was
primarily an open-source arena. They're definitely not perfect, but MSFT have
done a lot of good work in recent years to reach out to the open source
community, whether that's via an agreement w/Mono, IronPython and IronRuby kind
of stuff, opening up a lot of their APIs to developers, etc. CodePlex also
comes to mind. Again, they're not perfect, but who is... Red Hat? (eyes roll!)

And, let's face it... conventions are all about making money for the organiser.
If they had more interested sponsors (either big corps or open source
community), they would have increased the floor plan and made the room. You
might also say that it's Code Camp who set the pricing and therefore decided
who could afford to be a sponsor, speaker, exhibitor, etc. They could have made
it free (or nearly so) for non-profit orgs. Maybe they did, and if so I'll
retract that! :)

Regs,
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