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Microsoft ReMIX 2009 is being held on the 11^th June at Star City, Sydney. The early-bird cheaper price ticket stuff has been exten­ded, too.

At 4.45pm, I will be host­ing a ses­sion “Sib­ling Rivalry or Love: Microsoft and Open source. — Nick Hodge and Friends”

Microsoft and Open source may not be identical twins, but they share an equal pas­sion for soft­ware. A com­mon par­ent­age if you will: the code. Open source pro­jects are pop­ping up in many Microsoft’s web pro­jects: from the adop­tion of jQuery to the ASP.NET MVC project.

In this ses­sion, you will dis­cover Microsoft’s Open source off­spring and the not-so-distant cous­ins. See which pro­jects fit into your plans, and can dra­mat­ic­ally improve your time-to-golive. Also, hear from local con­trib­ut­ors to open source pro­jects: the risk and the rewards of join­ing a large genet­ic­ally diverse family.

By shar­ing in-the-field exper­i­ence and anec­dotes, Nick Hodge will act as a fam­ily coun­selor: and bring the fam­ily back together for a ReMIX reunion.

This year, the friends include:

• John O’Brien
• Rich Buggy
• John Bou­An­toun
• Lach­lan Hardy
• Tatham Oddie

See you at ReMIX.