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From YouTube: Interview with Kevin Avignon
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Kevin Avignon is a candidate running for the .NET Foundation Board.
Follow him on Twitter @KAvignon
A
B
Yes,
my
name
is
kevin
avenia,
I'm
a
software
engineer
graduate
in
from
montreal
canada.
I
graduated
in
2017..
It's
a.
It
was
a
co-op
program,
so
all
the
internship
I
did
and
all
the
work
I've
done
ever
since
has
been
focused
in.net,
so
I've
been
in.net
for
the
past
seven
years
or
so.
In
my
career,
I've
had
a
chance
to
solve
problems
for
companies
such
as
allowing
a
company
to
observe
their
performance
of
their
desktop
application,
choose
custom
tools
I
created
with
c-sharp
and
powershell.
B
I
also
had
the
chance
to
create
a
browsing
library
for
developers
to
understand
how
to
better
use
linq
and
their
data
structures.
In
the
past
few
years,
I've
been
focused
really
on
f,
sharp
and
functional
programming,
and
I've
fallen
in
love
completely
with
it.
Right
now
I
had
the
chance
to
lead
a
few
projects
with
it,
give
a
few
tech
presentation
and
dotnet
meetups,
I'm
currently
sitting
actually,
as
a
member
of
the
brother
trust
trustees
for
the
extra
software
foundation.
A
Be
asked,
oh
sorry.
Okay,
same
five
questions.
These
questions
come
from
a
survey
that
was
sent
out
via
slack
by
the
nomination
committee.
If
you
have
any
questions
for
the
candidates,
please
tweet
them.
The
official.net
twitter
handle,
let's
jump
in
what
excites
you
about
the
future
of
the
dot
net
ecosystem.
B
So
there's
a
lot
of
excites
me
because
I've
been
in
that
match
for
a
very
long
time.
Well,
it
feels
like
a
long
time
for
me
because
my
entire
career
has
been
focusing
on
that,
but
for
people
who
have
been
in
the
tech
industry
for
20
years,
maybe
a
bit
less.
But
let's
focus
more
about
my
career.
I
feel
that
ever
since
we
moved
to.net
core,
the
community
has
become
I've
increasingly
grown,
and
I
really
like
it.
B
Recently
there
has
been
the
dot
net
system.net
six,
the
preference
improvement
have
been
released
and
if
you
kind
of
see
how
much
care
that
the
community
is
putting,
what
sort
of
things
that
are
people
are
working
on
and
that
really
do
sound
fun
as
I'm
also,
as
I
mentioned
earlier,
I've
been
using
wrestling
wrestling
that
allows
you
to
kind
of
invest,
investigate.
What's
going
on
underneath
the
c-sharp
code
or
vbco,
I
found
it's
a
very
interesting
technology.
B
B
B
B
They'll
see
how
much
care
that
the
the
areas
in
the
microsoft
technologies
has
been
there
for
a
very
long
time.
There's
a
lot
of
room
to
grow
in
specific
branches
of
technologies
like
what
development
gaming,
what
unity
is
without
a
core
there's
mayu,
that's
going
to
come
in!
That's
actually
here,
that's
getting
just
better
and
better
over
time.
B
One
thing
I
can
also
think
about
is
I
see
right
on
some
of
the
website
of
the
dot
net
foundation
that
we
promote
events
to
come.
So
that's
great,
because
we,
the
the
speakers,
get
the
chance
to
have
more
people
attending
to
to
their
venue,
and
that's
that
allows
you
to
chance
to
say:
okay,
well,
I'm
not
going
to
talking
to
I'm
not
going
to
scream
into
the
world.
There's
actually
going
to
be
people
coming
in.
B
One
thing
that
we
could
do
to
inspire
more
countries
could
be
also
to
to
do
the
same
with
popular
blogs
on
dot-net
topics,
so
people
that
take
the
time
to
to
write
buckles
could
also.
We
could
also
have
them
somewhere
on
the
page
of
the
dot
net
foundation
like
they
could
be
started
somewhere,
maybe
like
on
a
weekly
or
monthly
basis.
A
B
All
right,
it's
an
interesting
question
for
me.
Oss
can
definitely
be
something
difficult
to
maintain
over
time
because
at
first
it's
very
exciting.
It's
new
over
time.
Once
you've
worked
out
the
quirks
of
a
project
you
might
think
about
working
on
something
else,
but
then
there's
the
community
that
looks
at
the
project
and
say
hey.
You
know
what
it's
very
interesting
and
I'm
gonna
use
it
for
work,
but
then,
as
as
you
have
more
work
to
do
for
future
new
features
or
maintenance,
just
this
sort
of
slow
burn.
B
That
appears,
and
one
thing
that
could
be
good
to
help
gain
more
popularity
and
make
them
more
successful
could
be
so
people
there
could
be
some
sort
of
a
given
gamified
system
where
people
that
contribute
your
project
could
get
some
reward.
Maybe
I
don't
know
what
sort
of
rewards
could
be?
Maybe
some
swag.
Maybe
if
you
get
some
points
you
can
maybe
get
something.
I
don't
know
what
just
yet
it's
just
an
idea
that
I
have
for
the
popular
contributors.
There
could
be
some
cash
given
for
projects
that
are
used
in
companies.
B
So
it's
also
I
like
that.
Your
questions
are
based
on
education,
as,
as
I've
mentioned
before,
I'm
leading
the
mentorship
program
at
the
foundation,
I'm
leading
called
the
abstract
software
foundation.
It's
a
foundation,
that's
there
to
nurture
the
abstract
community
and
help
it
grow,
see
what
it
can
do
to
shift
to
shape
the
community
and
see,
if
there's
specific
things
like
the
mentorship
program,
that
we
can
do
to
help
people
learn
about
after
and
dive
deeper
into
the
language.
That's
what
we're
doing.
B
I
also
saw
on
your
website
that
there
is
this
12
weeks
initiative
for
computer
science,
students
where
they
can
learn
more
about
c-sharp
and
dot
net,
and
the
idea
that
I
have
was
that
I
guess
is
great
and
at
the
extra
salsa
foundation
we
have
that
mentorship
program
that
occurs
twice
a
year
once
in
the
winter
and
once
in
the
fall.
So
I
was
thinking.
Maybe
what
we
could
do
for
adoption
could
be.
B
Let's
start
thinking
about
running
a
mentorship
program
for
students
and
developers
where
it
could
happen
once
a
year
and
once
we
got
the
details
down
and
it
feels
like
a
rock-solid
program
initiative,
we
can
make
it
happen,
maybe
twice
a
year
or
four
times
a
year
at
whichever
frequency.
We
feel
that
it's
best.
B
If
I
could,
I
would
work
on
that
mentorship
and
bring
on
what
I've
learned
from
the
amstrad
foundation.
Another
idea
that
could
be
great
would
be
creating
a
platform
where
remember.
I
was
talking
about
starring
people
that
blog
popular
blogs
or
posts.
We
could
create
a
platform
where
those
who
blog
about.net
can
be
easily
discovered
and
followed
a
little
bit
like
some
sort
of
like
a
platform
blog
for
twitter
or
twitter
for
blogs.
B
This
way,
writers
get
recognition
for
the
hard
work
that
they
have
to
do,
and
readers
get
a
place
where
they
can
easily
find
their
the
writers
and
see
what
they're
writing
about.
For
instance,
I'm
I'm
a.
I
have
a
tech
blog,
which
I
mostly
write
about.net,
so
it
could
be
a
great
place
for
my
blog
to
get
more
discovered
over
time.