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A
B
A
I
heard
it
was
storming
a
bit,
so
if
we
hear
some
thunder.
B
So
if
you
look
at
the.net
foundations
about
page
on
there,
it
says
what
we
do
and
the
things
that
they
talk
about
are
things
that
are
kind
of
near
and
dear
to
my
heart.
I
think
that
the
dot
net
foundation
is
doing
a
lot
of
good.
I
think
that
if
we
focused
and
targeted
certain
other
areas,
we
may
be
able
to
help
bridge
some
of
the
gaps
in
the
nets
open
source
community.
You
know
some
of
the
things
that
they
talk
about
is
promoting
the
the
broad
spectrum
of
software's
available.
B
You
know,
evangelizing
the
benefits
of
the.net
platform,
promoting
the
open
source
model
right,
and
that's
that's
really
a
big
one
for
me,
because
I
think
that
while
the
foundation
has
great
intentions,
I
think
that
we
as
a
community
need
to
do
a
better
job
of
promoting
the
open
source
model
and
really
getting
back
in
touch
with
microsoft
and
letting
them
know
that
the
way
that
they're
approaching
open
source
is
different
than
the
way
other
languages
are
approaching
it.
And
we
should
take
some
some
some
ideas
from
that,
so
that
we
can.
B
We
can
build
a
healthier
open
source
community.
So
really
why
I'm
running
is
is
is
really
to
to
try
and
bridge
the
gaps
between
open
source,
maintainers
and
and
and
and
consumers.
There
are
people
that
are
producing
open
source
packages
that
are
giving
their
spare
time
their
nights,
their
weekends
to
to
provide
a
leg
up,
or
you
know,
standing
on
the
backs
of
giants
for
other
developers
and
a
lot
of
I
mean
we
see
it
even
in
the
public.net
forums
like
there
was.
B
There
was
one
on
any
framework
core
not
too
long
ago,
where
somebody
was
very
upset,
didn't
want
to
help
provide
any
any
reproduction
steps
so
that
the
team
could
help
them
fix
the
issue.
It's
just
like.
How
can
we
get
the
consumers
to
understand
that
these
people
are
giving
their
time?
And
while
you
know
our
time
is
valuable
and
we
want
to
help.
But
if
you
can
help
us
help
you,
then
we
can
all
get
there
together.
A
B
Yes,
that
is,
that
is
the
primary
goal
of
of
why
I'm
running,
for
a
board
position
is,
is
to
help
bridge
that
gap.
Like
I
said
I've,
so
I've
been
been
open,
source
maintainer
for
the
past
several
years
for
a
project,
that's
in
the.net
foundation,
and
I
see
some
areas
for
improvement.
B
Oh
so
I've
been,
like,
I
said:
I've
been
a
maintainer
of
of
re,
the
reactive
ui
mvvm
framework
for
the
past
two
years.
I
did
not
write
the
the
the
open
source
project
I
actually
came
in
so
my
case
is
somewhat
unique.
The
the
maintainer
that
was
maintaining
was
ready
to
step
down
and
had
somebody
not
stepped
in
the
project
would
have
ended
up
being
dead
because
he
was
going
through
some
life
changes
and
he
needed
somebody
to
step
in
he
reached
out
to
me.
B
B
Okay,
so
I
was
able
to
go
from
from
a
consumer
to
to
to
a
maintainer,
and
I
really
got
a
chance
to
see
what
that
looks
like
from
somebody
who's.
B
Never
really,
you
know
done
open
source
on
that
level,
to
now
being
responsible
for
curating
issues,
responding
to
people's
feedback,
helping
people
in
slack
channels
helping
people
with
stack
overflow
posts,
things
that
I
was
never
planning
to
do,
but
there
was
a
there
was
a
need
that
needed
to
be
filled
and
had
I
not
stepped
in
had
glenn
the
other
maintainer
not
stepped
in
the
project
could
have
died
and
that's
a
net
foundation
project
that
would
have
fallen
by
the
wayside,
like
some
of
the
other
ones
that
I'm
seeing
recently.
B
So
my
my
my
work
with
the
foundation
has
been
primarily
as
a
maintainer
of
a
project
that
is
in
the
foundation.
We
were
one
of
the
one
of
the
the
pilot
groups
for
the
foundation,
so
we've
been
in
a
while.
We've
had
a
chance
to
watch
the
foundation
mature
and
that's
kind
of
again.
Why
I'm
here
is
because
there's
some
while
the
foundation
has
provided
us
a
lot
of
good
things,
and
I
will
not
say
that
they
haven't.
B
A
Contributions,
so
I
just
wanted
to
make
sure
before
we
moved
on
that,
you
didn't
have
any
more
contributions
that
you
wanted
to
mention
with
the
dot
net
foundation
or
community.
B
So
I
have
a
couple
of
small
libraries.
I've
got
a
group
where
I
push.
You
know
packages
on
top
of
mvvm.
The
majority
of
my
contributions
are:
these
days
are
maintaining
reactive
ui.
I've
contributed
to
cake
and
some
other
dot
net
foundation
projects
along
the
way.
I've
anytime,
I
get
a
chance
to
help
somebody
that's
in
the
foundation.
You
know
that
I
can
help.
B
I
I
do
my
best
to
do
so,
and
even
people
that
aren't
in
the
foundation
alan
ritchie
has
been
active
on
on
twitter
recently
as
a
xamarin
developer,
he's
written
a
library
that
helps
a
lot
of
xamarin
concerns
around
location
services,
notification,
services,
gps
readings
and
he's
just
asking
for
help.
You
know
so
I
sent
some
documentation
now.
Is
that
a
really
big
thing
did
I
change
the
face
of
the
project?
B
No,
but
every
little
bit
helps,
and
I
think
that's
the
big
thing
that
we
don't
see
as
consumers
is
that
every
single
bit
helps
you.
You
call
out
that
my
documentation
is
missing
a
punctuation
that
helps
if
you
submit
a
pull
request
to
the
website,
saying
that
this
is
a
dead
link
that
helps
all
of
these
things.
Help
me
as
the
maintainer
focus
on
other
things,
that
may
add
bigger
value
for
the
overall
community,
so
my
contributions
are
really
around
dot-net
open
source.
You
know
the
libraries
that
I
consume.
A
Very
nice,
so
what
experience
do
you
have?
That
would
lend
itself
well
to
being
on
the
board.
B
I've
been
a
member
of
several
organizations
throughout
my
life
cycle,
so
I've
held
president
positions
on
on
in
organizations.
I've
not
been
on
a
board
this
big,
and
I
will
you
know
I'll
candidly
say
that
this
is
probably
the
the
biggest
opportunity
for
me
to
to
really
you
know,
get
in
and
give
back,
but
being
a
xamarin
developer.
Xamarin
is
moving
into
the
core
framework
right.
We
are
now
if
it
with
maui.
B
B
B
I
have
seen
xamarin
forms
mature
and
grow,
and
now
we
are
finally
becoming
a
first-class
citizen.net
like
yay
we're
a
first-class
citizen.
So
what
does
that
mean
right
and-
and
is
there
anybody
on
the
board
that
you
know
cares
about
the
xamarin
community,
which
has
honestly
been
a
redheaded
stepchild
of
the.net
community,
because
everything
you
see
is
azure
and
web,
and
no
one
really
talks
about
this
cross-platform
mobile
experience
that.net
is
providing.
So
I
think
that
as
someone
that
consumes.net
has
been,
I've
been
consuming
the.net
framework
since
2001.
B
yeah
I've
been
consuming
the.net
framework
for
15
years,
I've
been
active
in
the
open
source
community.
For
the
past
five
I've
been
a
xamarin
developer
for
the
past
five.
I
think
that
the
the
experience
that
I
have
with
working
with
organizations,
as
well
as
the
fact
that
I
am
I'm
in
a
kind
of
a
niche
position,
where
I
kind
of
speak
for
people
that
don't
have
a
voice
right
now
being
in
the
xamarin
community.
B
So
so
the
so
on
on
the
on
my
campaign,
page
one
of
one
of
the
things
I
talked
about,
I
took
a
slightly
different
approach,
one
of
the
things
that
I
said.
What
do
I
want
right,
because
I
I
I
grew
up
in
politics.
I
really
don't
like
politics.
B
I
can't
stand
when
politicians
stand
up
and
say
I'm
going
to
do
all
these
things,
because
the
reality
is,
I
may
get
it
onto
the
board
and
find
out
that
I
can't
do
any
of
those
things
and
that
I've
made
all
of
these
promises
and
I
basically
lied
to
people.
So
I
won't
tell
you
what
I'm
going
to
do.
I
tell
you
what
I
want
to
see
from
the
foundation
and
if
I'm
on
the
board,
I'm
going
to
be
working
towards
making
those
things
happen.
B
So
those
things
include
kind
of
like
an
open
source
relief
effort.
You
know
there's
a
lot
of,
like
I
said,
there's
a
lot
of
projects
that
are
like
the
recently
I
was
about
to
start
a
project,
a
little
mini
project
on
the
side.
For
myself
I
was
like
yeah.
You
know
I
haven't
used
nancy
in
a
while.
Let
me
go
and
use
nancy
and
find
out.
Nancy
is
no
longer
supported.
B
That's
a
net
foundation,
open
source
project
that
that
no
one
like
I
wasn't
even
like
publicized
that
it
was
that
it
was.
It
was
that's
being
deprecated
and
it's
just
like
that's
a
I.
As
somebody
in
the
foundation
didn't
know,
I
was
the
maintainer
of
another
project
in
the
foundation.
Didn't
know
I
didn't
know
until
I
went
to
the
to
the
to
the
read
me
and
found
it
so
you
know
some
type
of
open
source
relief
where
we
create
like
grooming
for
people.
B
Like
myself,
like
I
said
I
came
in
green,
I
had
no
experience
and
they
have
and
and
glenn
has
been
doing,
a
great
job
of
grooming.
Me,
hey
rodney,
that
issue
that
you
responded
to.
You
know
you,
you
might
want
to
tone
it
down.
Hey
rodney!
That
issue
that
you
responded
to.
You
could
have
answered
it
better
this
way.
So
you
know
simple
things
like
grooming
people
to
to
take
over
those
technologies
so
that
they
don't
die.
B
I
think
it's
something
that
the
dot-net
foundation
needs
to
be
responsible
for
another
one
is
going
to
be
like
in
an
open
source
sponsorship
program.
While
I
see
that
github
has
recently
added
sponsorships
and
that's
great
now,
we've
got
developers
sponsoring
other
developers.
The
reality
of
it
is
that
these
developers
work
for
companies,
and
these
companies
are
the
ones
that
are
benefiting
from
these
projects,
not
just
the
developers
right
like
we
make
these
tools
and
the
developers
are
using
those
tools
to
help
their
company
advancement,
so
instead
of
just
developers
contributing
via
github
sponsorships.
B
B
So
I
I
even
if
it's
not
money,
even
if
we
work
with
the
legal
departments,
to
try
and
change
that,
because
really
what
those
legal
departments
are
doing
is
taking
away
our
contributors
right,
because
they're
net
developers,
they're
already.net
developers,
developing.net
in
a
production
environment,
and
we
don't
have
and
they're
consuming
our
products
and
they're
finding
our
bugs,
but
they
can't
contribute
back
with
their
time.
That's
that
that's
something
that
I
think
that
the
net
foundation
should
try.
I'm
not
saying
it's
going
to
do
it,
but
it
should
try
and
and
and
address.
B
B
So
if
you
know,
if
you're
aligned
with
that,
then
you
know
maybe
give
me
a
vote,
but
otherwise
I
I
would
say
that
you
know
it's
it's
it's
a
it's
something
that
we
need
to
address,
because
we're
going
to
start
to
reduce
our
our
pool
of
developers,
we're
trying
to
bring
new
developers
in
we're
trying
to
make
sure
these
projects
they
maintained
and-
and
that
becomes
very,
very
tragic
when
you
know
nancy,
which
was
a
great
alternative
to
web
api-
is
just
no
longer
supported,
and
then
you
know
growing
the
community
again
I
work
on
a
nvvm
framework
and
mvvm
is
the
de
facto
standard
right
now
for
how
applications
are
built
in
the
dot
net
framework.
B
So
I'm
constantly
helping
people
with
their
first
mvvm
questions.
Hey
I'm
new2.net,
I'm
new
to
mvvm.
How
do
I
do
these
things?
B
So,
even
though
they're
only
coming
to
my
slack
channel
for
our
group,
I'm
at
least
getting
a
touch
point
with
new
developers
to
get
them
on
board,
and
I
think
that
that's
really
what
we
need
to
do
is
we
need
to
open
up
the
the
ability
to
educate
and
and
help
with
open
source
documentation,
so
that
we
can
make
sure
that,
because,
like
there's,
no
reason
why
some
of
these
open
source
projects
can't
leverage
the
same
technologies
and
tools
that
microsoft
is
using
to
generate
their
their
brand
new
microsoft
docs,
which,
by
the
way,
is
10
times
better
than
msdn
ever
was
so.
B
You
know,
why
aren't
those
tools
available
to
everyone
to
make
to
make
the
mvvm
experience
the
onboarding
experience
better
for
people
who
don't
know.
A
Well,
thank
you
so
much
ronnie
lots
of
really
neat
initiatives
and
I
wish
you
the
best
of
luck.
Thank
you
for
coming.