Microsoft & Open Source a 'Brave New World' - CORESTART 2.0

14 Nov 2017 - 583 words

Recently I was fortunate enough to be invited to the CORESTART 2.0 conference to give a talk on Microsoft & Open Source a ‘Brave New World’. It was a great conference, well organised by Tomáš Herceg and the teams from .NET College and Riganti and I had a great time.

I encourage you to attend next years ‘Update’ conference if you can and as bonus you’ll get to see the sights of Prague! Including the Head of Franz Kafka as well as the amazing buildings, castles and bridges that all the guide-books will tell you about!

I’ve not been ‘invited’ to speak at a conference before, so I wasn’t sure what to expect, but there was a great audience and they seemed happy to learn about the Open Source projects that Microsoft are running and what is being done to encourage us (the ‘Community’) to contribute.

The slides for my talk are embedded below and you can also ‘watch’ the entire recording (audio and slides only, no video).

Microsoft & open source a 'brave new world' - CORESTART 2.0 from Matt Warren

Talk Outline

But if you don’t fancy sitting through the whole thing, you can read the summary below and jump straight to the relevant parts

Before

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Wait, didn’t that happen before? direct link
.NET goes ‘Open Source’ and onto Hacker News direct link
What did they Open Source? direct link
CoreFX, CoreCLR, CoreFX Labs, Roslyn direct link
TypeScript, VS Code and Kestrel direct link

During

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First PR direct link
Comedy PRs direct link
Good direct link
Bad (‘we got to see how the sausage was made’) direct link
Ugly direct link

After

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Do .NET Developers Care? direct link
Microsoft the organisation on GitHub direct link
Over 60% of Contributions to .NET Core come from the Community direct link
Are Microsoft telling the Truth? direct link
Analysis of GitHub Repositories - ‘Community v. Microsoft’ direct link
Issues Opened direct link
Pull Requests Created direct link
Do .NET Developers Care? - Conclusions direct link

What Now?

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How do I Contribute? direct link
Domino Chain Reaction direct link
First CoreFX PR by Ben Adams direct link
First CoreCLR PR by Ben Adams direct link
My main Contributions to the CoreCLR direct link
Will I get told to RTM? direct link

Domino Chain Reaction

Finally, if you’re wondering what the section on ‘Domino Chain Reaction’ is all about, you’ll have to listen to that part of the talk, but the video itself is embedded below: