Tim Keller Lead Developer Umoya Networks DTL302

Who am I Tim Keller or timk.co.za) Your typical Mac/Linux type Lead Developer of a PHP-based cloud hosted tool for teachers and school admins, called staffroom Microsoft-friendly HI, I’M TIM KELLER LEAD PHP DEVELOPER

Agenda It helps to have a plan Why Microsoft cares Customer input Consuming Contributing Under the hood Agile Development Open Source CodePlexCodePlex

OpenSource is an approach to the design, development, and distribution of software, offering practical accessibility to a software's source code. This definition changes up to 30 times a month, on Wikipedia

OpenSource Business Model Licensing Model Development Model Source Code provided Right to View, Modify and Redistribute

D ENIA L It’s not just a river in Egypt.

Microsoft and OpenSource Surprising perhaps MS Open Source Software Lab Staffed by OSS and Linux experts 300 servers of varying types 340+ Linux distros available for testing Tests interoperability of OSS and Windows Research of OSS technologies

Microsoft and OpenSource Surprising perhaps Projects so far… Firefox Silverlight support Silverlight/Moonlight common standard Vista Firefox compatibility FastCGI hosting of PHP and Python on IIS SQL Server drivers for PHP and Java Release lines of code to Linux Driver Project under the GPLv2.

Microsoft and OpenSource Surprising perhaps Active and Future projects PHP Active Directory integration PHP SharePoint integration SugarCRM SQL Server connectivity Windows - Apache build support/research

Real change takes time. Change within Microsoft and within the industry will happen with time. - Editor, Port25, Microsoft OSTC

Port 25 is about having a healthy conversation with customers and the industry wherein people can talk openly and honestly about their biggest interoperability challenges, whether it is on UNIX, Linux, Windows, or among other open source packages.

CodePlex OPEN SOURCE PROJECT COMMUNITY ReleasesDiscussions Bug Tracker Source Control StatisticsLicenses

Three years later visits per month page views per month registered users active projects Licenses: 36% Ms-PL 21% GPLv2 9% MIT 7% BSD

Code code check-ins per month Popular Languages C# Javascript Visual Basic C++ ASP.NET PHP Python

It’s about the customer Codeplex cares User voting for next codeplex feature Very open and accessible team Fast turnaround Website survey Tweets Blog feedback Conferences

OpenSource Consume DownloadFeedback Contribute Find BugsSuggestionsFixesCreate

Consuming OpenSource Getting involved Find something you want Download it Use it Give feedback

Consuming OpenSource Source Control Interfaces Team Foundation Server Access through VS Team Explorer Subversion Clients: TortoiseSVN, VisualSVN for VS. Teamprise Explorer Codeplex Client

Consuming software on CodePlex

Contributing Working on an existing project Discussions Bug fixing Feature development

Contributing Software to CodePlex

Contributing Creating a new project In the first 30 days… Create Codeplex Account Terms & Conditions Choose License Publish Then Release management Invite Collaborators Fix bugs

Contributing Software to CodePlex

Under the hood Source Control Interfaces Netscaler Load Balancer Frontend web servers (IIS) Team Foundation Servers SVN Bridge Mail server

Agile Development A positive change Microsoft typically runs 2-3 year cycles CodePlex has a 3-week cycle Need for Agility Iteration 1 (Feature) Iteration 2 (Feature) Iteration 3 (Stabilize) Test PassDeploy Iteration 1 (Feature) Iteration 2 (Feature)

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