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Join us for short interviews with .NET Foundation Board of Director Candidates. Ask live Q&A.
Hosted by: Sara Chipps
Candidates: Rodrigo Diaz Concha, Jeff Strauss, Jerome Hardaway
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A
Okay,
next
up,
we
have
jerome
hardaway,
hey
girl
hi.
How
are
you
doing
how's
it
going?
Is
that
a
captain
america
shield.
B
Oh,
this
is
actually
my
edc
shield
right.
I
can't
take
this
with
me.
It's
a
backpack
I
always
take
whenever
I
leave
like
conferences
and
stuff.
That's
someone
I
go
to
this
is
my
home
one.
This.
A
A
B
Roger
that
I
was
actually
asked
initially
to
throw
my
hat
in
the
ring
to
run
for
the
board.
I
was,
I
wasn't
even
thinking
about
it,
like
the
things
that
you
have
done
in
the
past.
Half
decade
is
what
our
organization
needs.
We
need
that
polarization.
We
need
that
charge
in
the
veins
and
someone
that
you
know
brings
the
ruckus
and
get
things
done
and
you're
the
person
for
the
job.
B
They
heard
all
the
things
that
I've
done
in
tech
in
the
past
six,
seven
years
since
being
a
part
of
tech
and
just
how
I've
changed
the
open
source,
communities
with
javascript
and
with
diversity
and
minorities
and
veterans-
and
you
know,
they're,
like
you,
you
know
you're
the
guy,
so
I
was
like
sure
you
know,
if
you
guys
need
me,
I'm
here,
for
it.
B
Roger
that
I
am
a
us,
combat
veteran
did
transition
software
engineering
in
less
than
a
year
coming
back
home,
and
then
I
turned
around
and
I
helped
252
is
my
current
account.
Other
veterans
and
military
spouses
get
into
the
industry
teaching
them
how
to
use
merm
stack
mean
stack
and
jam
stack
to
learn
how
to
code
through
my
non-profit,
vetsuko
whole
time,
raising
a
family
and
working
full-time.
B
My
last
job
was
actually
a
cbsi
shout
out
to
the
comic
book
crew
and
now
I'm
with
quicken
loans,
that's
their
death
advocate.
So
I,
like
I
said,
I've
been
pushing
as
we've
said,
military
pushing
pavement
really
hard
the
past
six
years.
A
B
Actually,
my
dot
net
foundation
background
is
nonzero.
I
was
very
shocked
when
I
was
even
asked
for
it,
because
I
told
them
I
have
written,
maybe
six
lines
of
net
my
entire
career.
They
were
like.
Well,
that's
what
we
actually
need.
Somebody
who
knows
why
people
choose
decide
how
to
choose.net
someone,
who's
changed
lives
with
code
and
willing
to
do
who
can
do
the
work
and
that's
one
thing
that
I
bring
to
the
organization.
B
My
experience
is
co-agnostic
when
it
comes
to
what
I
can
do,
I
know
how
to
change
communities
and
thought
processes,
because
I've
done
that
with
code
already,
so
it's
just
going
from
javascript
to
csharp.net
with
it.
I
already
know
that
you
know
c
sharp
and
net
are
both
open
source.
Very
few
people
know
that
the
thing
is
everybody
keeps
going
through
this
processes
of
putting
you
know
boots
on
the
ground,
and
these
colleges
and
universities.
That's
not
how
we
did
it
in
a
javascript
world.
B
We
chose
it
as
we
would
a
very
promethean
approach
with
it
and
we
went
directly
to
the
people
we
went
to
ymcas.
We
went
to
everyday
people
because
we
already
know
that,
from
the
data
that's
been
collected,
that
the
next
generation
of
amazing
engineers
are
not
going
to
be
coming
for
your
colleges,
they're,
going
to
be
coming
from
those
favillas
from
those
neighborhoods
that
are
smaller,
represented
in
tech,
that,
from
the
veteran
military
bases,
that
our
communities
don't
really
decide,
don't
really
jump
into.
B
A
That's
great,
that's
amazing,
so
we've
already
heard
that
you've
not
written
much.net,
but
you
I'm
sorry
not
not
written
much,
see,
sir,
are
burning
the
or
asp.net.net
technologies,
and
but
you've
talked
a
little
bit
about
the
experience
you
have.
That
lends
itself
to
be
part
of
the
board.
So
can
you
talk
a
little
more
about
that?
I'm
sure
that
you've
run
into
some
similar
things
while
running
your
nonprofit,
that
you
think
you
might
run
into
on
the
board.
Can
you
talk
a
little
about
that.
B
Roger
that
I
mean
the
main
problem
that
people
are
talking
about.
Everyday.Net
is
the
adoption
right
people,
even
myself,
like
I
was
like
adopt
like
I
was
like.net,
is
the
framework
you
go
to
when
you're
ready
to
be
boring
and
get
a
comfortable,
pushy
old
person.
Job
right,
like
you
know,
it's
not
for
the
people
that
want
to
change
the
world.
That
was
my
own
like
stick,
that's
the
stigma
that
that.net
has
across
the
globe,
especially
with
people
who
want
to
do
cool
things
and
like
save
the
world
right.
B
B
So
that's
one
of
the
things
that
I
bring
to
the
table
as
well.
Like
I
said,
change
in
adopting
no
one
in
2014,
2013
thought
veterans
in
mass
could
learn
how
to
code
and
then
my
first
year
as
a
non-profit,
I
produced
50
veterans
with
jobs
learned
in
12
states,
learning
how
to
code,
and
now
I'm
at
252
and
37
right.
So
there's
no
one
who
can
who
has
real
world
experience
of
actually
changing
people's
perception
of
things
and
getting
adoption
to
the
point
that
a
united
a
sitting
president
notices?
B
What
you're
doing
my
first
year
I
produced
so
many
quality
engineers
that
barack
obama
invited
me
to
the
white
house.
So
oh
he's
tall,
he
smells
like
cookies.
He
was
pretty
awesome.
It
was
so
great.
My
humor
right,
like
you,
can't
like,
if
anything
when,
when
things
are
going
down,
I'm
gonna
make
everybody
laugh
because
that's
the
only
thing
no
laughter
is
new
medicine
but
yeah.
That's
what
that's
what
I
do.
That's
how
I
bring
it.
I
don't
I
don't
sit
around
in
dogma
in
theory.
I
I
do
work.
B
I
have
a
gsd
mentality,
get
done.
We
need
change,
I'm
the
first
person,
that's
gonna,
put
my
hands
in
the
mud
and
start
moving
things
and
I'm
gonna
let
the
last
person
that's
gonna,
be
at
the
dinner
table
right
like
I,
I
enjoy
my
16
hour
work
days.
I
love
I
live
for
this
stuff.
I
live
for
changing
lives,
I
don't
do
tech,
I
do
lives
and
that's
what
the.net
foundation
really
needs.
They
have
to
focus
off
of
the
technology
ideals
and
be
like
no.
What
we
do
is
lives
like
we
can
change
lives.
B
My
first
family
that
I
created
when
I
had
helped
a
veteran
get
to
microsoft
as
a
devops
engineer,
and
he
got
his
offer
letter
and
then
within
12
hours,
we're
at
a
celebration
party
and
he
proposed
to
his
girlfriend,
may
her
fiance
scott
hanselman
and
I
take
them
out
to
dinner
to
breakfast
as
their
first
morning
of
being
beyonce's
and
then
he
moves
to
seattle
to
join
microsoft,
and
then
he
marries
her
while
in
cl
that's
what
we
do
right
and
that's
what
the
net
community
and.net
foundation
needs.
B
A
That's
great
tigers
are
great
well,
thank
you
so
much
for
coming
on
and
for
sharing
your
thoughts,
jerome
and
good
luck
in
this
upcoming
election.
A
Thanks
for
joining
okay,
next
up,
we
have
jeff's.