Microsoft Open-Source with Phil Haack

Microsoft is open-sourcing an increasing range of software.

Phil Haack is a former PM on Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Framework, as well as NuGet, an open-source package manager. He currently works on Github Desktop at Github.

Questions

• What is .NET?
• How is Microsoft’s policy around open-source changing?
• When Microsoft moved code to open-source at Github, how did communication change?
• What was your strategy for managing the development of NuGet?
• How does working at Github differ from working at Microsoft?
• What are the biggest criticisms of git?

Links

• QCon SF: The Amazing Potential of Microsoft Open-Source
• Github Flow Aliases
• Microsoft Open Source
• Phil Haack’s blog
• SE Daily: TypeScript with Jon Turner
• Why You Should Care About the New Open Source .NET

Jeff