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Join us for short interviews with .NET Foundation Board of Director Candidates. Ask live Q&A.
Hosted by: Alyssa Nicoll
Candidates: Jamie Howarth, Joseph Guadagno, Javier Lozano, Rodney Littles, II
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A
Another
round
of
dot
net
foundation
board
candidate
interviews.
My
name
is
alyssa
nichol
and
I
will
be
running
the
show
today
and
interviewing
our
four
lovely
guests
and
before
I
do
that,
just
a
little
bit
about
me.
I
am
an
angular
developer
advocate
for
kendo
ui
at
progress,
and
I'm
very
very
excited
to
be
here
today
and
get
to
do
these
interviews.
So
without
further
ado,
I'm
going
to
welcome
on
our
first
guest
of
the
day,
janie
howard.
B
B
That's
it
yeah.
I
keep
pretty
busy
so
and
on
the
side
of
that
I've,
during
during
copenhagen,
19
and
I'd
say
for
the
last
nine
months
or
so.
I've
also
been
working
with
a
non-profit
called
the
joe
cox
foundation,
which
was
set
up
in
the
uk
in
2016
to
honor
the
memory
of
a
late
legislator,
joe
cox,
who
was
unfortunately
killed
in
2016
during
a
political
campaign
and
during
cover
19.
B
I've
also
been
the
sort
of
de
facto
cto
for
an
initiative
called
helpyourhighstreet.org,
which
is
a
directory
of
small
businesses
that
are
selling
gift
cards
to
help
them
with
their
cash
flow
during
kofi
19,
because
it's
an
important
line
of
credit
that
small
businesses
have
because
obviously
they're
still
incurring
rent
and
staffing
costs
and
all
the
rest.
And
while
the
government's
done,
you
know
a
lot
around
that
it's
nice
to
connect
consumers
with
their
favorite
businesses
to
support
them.
B
Well,
I
mean
when
it
comes
to
working
with
the
foundation.
I
mean
I
basically
do
a
few
updates
for
them.
They've
got
a
wordpress
site
and
a
site,
that's
built
on
a
platform
called
nation
builder,
so
they
have
sort
of
very
few
sort
of
regular
demands,
so
I
may
be
checking
on
them
once
or
twice
a
month
to
do
updates.
You
know
security
patches,
I'm
supposed
to
be
doing
a
session
with
them
at
some
point.
B
Obviously,
when
kobe
19
is
over
to
discuss
digital
security
for
all
their
volunteers
and
their
staff,
so
things
like
two-factor,
authentication,
bits
and
pieces
like
that,
the
help
your
high
street
initiative
was,
I
sort
of
came
into
it.
I'd
say
around
about
mid
late
march,
but
there's
actually
a
team
of
eight
developers
in
there
so
and
we
set
up
a
brilliant
process
in
get
lab
because
previously
the
developers
using
it
was
just
emailing
around
zip
files.
B
So
the
guy,
the
guy
who
the
guy,
who
set
up
a
guy
called
kanishka,
he's
an
mba
grant
from
stanford
and
he
basically
sort
of
didn't
really
know
how
to
do
all
the
technical
process.
So
I
gave
them
git
lab,
put
cloudflare
in
front
of
it
we're
using
gitlab
pages.
So
it's
all
really.
It's
really
super
simple,
but
it's
all
really
easy
and
reusable
and
people
are
using
vs
code
or
just
even
notepad,
just
to
make
their
own
little
changes
and
yeah.
So
we've
got
about
eight
developers
spending.
B
I
think
it's
about
five
or
six
different
time
zones,
so
all
I
did
was
simply
set
up
a
trust
and
transparency
process
that
says
right.
If
you
want
to
make
any
changes,
then
send
in
a
pull
request.
Two
other
people
have
to
review
it
as
long
as
they
review
it.
It
goes
live.
So
it's
all
trust
and
you
know,
and
the
transparency
of
the
process-
it's
it's
very
agile,
but
it
means
that
anybody
can
get
on
and
contribute,
and
my
my
key
involvement
was
actually
setting
that
process
up.
B
B
So
it'll
still
buy
sorry
and
and
yeah.
So
I've
already
been
heavily
involved
with
the
foundation,
taking
notes
engaging
in
outreach
and
that's
sort
of
what
I
want
to
bring
to
the
foundation
is
more
of
that
basically-
and
you
know,
sort
of
pushing
when,
when
you
know,
kids
and
young
people
do
start
programming,
there's
tons
of
stuff
out
there
like
there's
scratch
and
there's.
A
A
B
First,
girls
yeah
it's
11
to
18
years
old,
so
it's
high
school,
basically
in
the
uk,
so
so
yeah.
Obviously,
all
the
courses
right
now
are
virtual
learning,
but
we're
hoping
to
resume
in
person
they
basically
use.
They
use
university
facilities
and
there's
two
world-class
universities.
A
couple
of
miles
up
the
road
from
me
so
we'll
be
using
those
when
cover
19
is
over
to
actually
host
weekly
classroom
sessions.
A
B
A
B
Well,
as
I
mentioned
volunteering
and
working
with
non-profits
for
the
last
year,
or
so
has
given
me
a
lot
of
experience
with,
obviously
the
sort
of
transparency
and
trust
accountability,
that's
necessary
when
working
with
groups
of
volunteers.
As
I
say,
I've
already
been
heavily
involved
in
the
last
six
months
with
the
foundation
and
its
outreach
group,
including,
as
I
say,
minuting
and
actually
taking
notes
of
what
people
are
doing,
how
we're
doing
proposal
processes
and
yeah.
B
A
B
Your
interview
yeah
well,
I
am
yeah,
I'm
currently
working
on
a
couple
of
nice
little
open
source
projects.
One
of
them,
is
a
an
online
shop
module
from
bronco,
which
I'm
breathing
some
sort
of
new
life
into
for
one
of
my
startups,
which
is
called
mochello,
which
is
quite
good
fun.
Anything
almost
go
check
that
out.
Then
it's
github.com
slash
jamie
howard,
zero,
slash
from
a
cello,
I'm
also
working.
B
There's
a
really
nice
little
tool
called
refit,
which
I
really
like
it's
a
way
of
generating
classes
around
interfaces
just
for
doing
rest
style,
so
you
can
do
get
post
put.
You
know,
delete
all
that
kind
of
stuff
and
I've
been
contributing
that
for
a
while,
I'm
building
a
few
kind
of
sort
of
official
client
libraries
around
it.
But
my
big
one,
I'm
working
on
the
moment
is
the
twitter
one,
because
twitter
client,
libraries
for
dot
net
core
aren't
really
quite
there
yet.