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What do you all think about this? Personally, I hardly believe anything Microsoft does is not motivated by an anti-competitive agenda. What's the angle? ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Windows Server 2008 Application Compatability Lab Invitation From: "GarrettSerack" <[hidden email]> Date: Wed, January 9, 2008 11:42 am To: [hidden email] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Howdy, (William Rowe from the ASF suggested I post this to your dev@ list) My name is Garrett Serack, and I am the Community Program Manager in the Open Source Software Labs here at Microsoft. I would like to extend an official invitation to the Apache Software Foundation to participate in the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Compatibility Labs here in Redmond. The Compatibility lab is scheduled for Monday February 25 2008 through Wednesday JANUARY 28 2008. (the lab is actually booked thru Thurs the 29th, so an extra day is possible) WHAT IS IT? ----------- The Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility Lab is an event where we invite companies to bring their applications into our lab, and have the opportunity to perform compatibility testing with Windows Server 2008. In addition to gaining insight into Windows Server 2008, this also includes unprecedented access to various product groups (developers, architects and PMs) inside of Microsoft, who can lend their assistance, give technical information and answer design questions you may have. Normally, we request companies send 3-4 attendees, and we usually have 3-4 companies in the lab in a given week. Given the ASF's size and breadth, we've reserved the entire lab for the week for the Apache Foundation, and we'd like to see somewhere in the range of 15-18 people from a wide variety of projects attend. WHO SHOULD COME? ---------------- We would be very interested in having several people from the Tomcat, HTTPD and Axis groups attend. Other projects including APR, Apache C++ Standard Library project, Harmony, and Maven.NET also come to mind. Any project that is impacted by the release of Windows 2008, or is looking to solve Windows-specific project issues, may profit from this opportunity. We are interested in having each project who deals with Microsoft Windows compatibility or portability to bring small contingent of 1 or 2 developers to the table, so please chat within your own PMC or even your dev@ list first to determine who is most interested in attending this camp on behalf of your project. Space is constrained, and we'd like to ensure that specific attention can be given to projects that need it. WHAT'S THE COST? ---------------- The cost of the event itself is being handled by our team (the Open Source Software Lab), all you have to do is actually get here. Some travel assistance by Microsoft will be available (hotel/airfare), *if* your employer can't pick up such costs. As my budget is limited, how much travel assistance we can provide is linked to how many need to avail themselves of it. If you don't need a subsidy, hotels can still be booked at MS's corp rate at most nearby, saving some money. WHAT IS THE PROCESS? -------------------- To track interest, please register for this event in the subversion file https://svn.apache.org/repos/private/committers/hackathons/port25-08/attending.txt and send me an email with the following information: Full Name: Street Address: Phone Number: Email Address: ASF Projects Involved in: Travel Assistance Required: (full/part/none) Product Groups you wish to get access to: Any technical aspects you'd like to address: INSIGHT ------- You might be interested in the "political" rational of why we value this chance to meet some of the ASF developers and help them work through Windows compatibility issues. You can see Sam Ramji's blog entry about why we asked Mozilla out: http://port25.technet.com/archive/2006/09/20/Why-I-invited-Mozilla.aspx Garrett Serack | Open Source Community Lead | Microsoft Corporation Office:(425)706-7939 email/messenger: [hidden email] blog: http://fearthecowboy.com -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Windows-Server-2008-Application-Compatability-Lab-Invitation-tp14715813p14715813.html Sent from the Tomcat - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [hidden email] For additional commands, e-mail: [hidden email] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
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