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As previously mentioned I’m off to BarCamp Liverpool this weekend and this page will act as a landing site for attendees who follow the URL that will be on their beer tokens :) There are a number of useful resources for BarCamp folks i think/hope
- Get a tonne of Microsoft software for a few quid with BizSpark . Tools, servers, database and our cloud platform. there are some entry criteria but if you want access to literally thousands of pounds of software, this is the program for you. It’s not just software though, there is also support - via MSDN (two support incidents per startup) access to Network Partner and global visibility - via BizSparkDB.
- Microsoft's open source project hosting web site is CodePlex . Start a new project, join an existing one, or download software created by the community. Basically tonnes of code, ready to share and be shared. Microsoft? yeah….serious.
- If you’re interested in cloud computing stuff, Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform may be of interest Windows in the cloud, SQL, identity, storage, compute, social networking building blocks. In a nutshell this is what I’d play with if I wanted to build the new Facebook….which I don’t incidentally.
- Get an entire Web Platform includes link to the Web Platform Installer which auto configures a machine for building and running web applications on Windows in ASP.NET or PHP
I’ll keep adding more stuff here but I also wanted to add two things which may be common questions I get this weekend to answer the question or observation about why the hell I’m there. 3 reasons
- I love Liverpool
- I love Microsoft
- I love getting outside of the echo chamber/borg
please don’t shoot me…. :)
Comments
- Anonymous
December 06, 2008
Day in the life of a Microsoft employee at Barcamp:
- Get introduced, and booed by crowd members
- Have Linux fanatics look forward to grilling you (there was at least one after Steve)
- Get cheered when it becomes evident he's the reason everybody is getting free drinks. If only popularity was so simple elsewhere in life.
Anonymous
December 07, 2008
good to see you there John and yep, was fun to be cheered for beer tokens :)Anonymous
December 07, 2008
The last BarCamp I went to, I was the first to be eaten in a game of werewolf. Naturally, the Apple fanboys were the first to be accused of being werewolves.Anonymous
December 07, 2008
I tend to think of the macfans being more like sheep ;) Thanks again Steve for making it a great party! I don't think we actually managed to finish the free beer!Anonymous
December 08, 2008
Was great to see you and speak about Microsoft and the "community".. Lets see you at barcampleeds09 :)