Monday, November 20, 2006
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VS Live San Francisco and Microsoft Vista
I am the track chair for Vista Live!, one of the sub-conferences of VS Live! San Francisco. This conference will be held March 25-29, 2007.

As track chair, it is my job to recruit speakers and help select sessions around software development and Windows Vista and .NET 3.0.

Windows Vista has some major impacts on software development. Perhaps most notably, having users (and developers) run in a non-Admin account affects how both development tools and end-user applications install and run. And then there are the new shell features, and integrated RSS support. Add to this .NET 3.0, with WCF, WPF, WF and WCS, and there's a lot of ground to cover.

If you would like to speak at VS Live in March, on a Windows Vista related topic, please use this online proposal submission form to submit your idea.

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Monday, November 20, 2006 11:40:46 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Hey Rocky...

Does this conference pay for:
1. Accomodation
2. Flights from Europe
3. Anything else for the speaker

If the answer to any of the above is "yes", does that apply to MS employees as well?

Cheers
Daniel
Daniel Moth
Monday, November 20, 2006 12:07:51 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
They cover conference admission, accomodation and a speaker stipend, but not airfare. I don't know what the rules are around Microsoft employees - doesn't Microsoft restrict income from external sources like that?

If you are interested, the deadline for submissions is December 1.
Rockford Lhotka
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 4:14:13 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Thanks Rocky...

>>doesn't Microsoft restrict income from external sources like that?
Don't know the exact answer to that question. In any case, the goal is to have the travel+hotel covered and certainly not to make a profit :-)
Daniel Moth
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 9:25:29 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
For people in the US it is almost certainly the case that the hotel and stipend will cover any reasonable travel costs.

I mention that they cover the conference admission - which you'd think goes without saying. But I'm doing a conference in December where they only cover admission during the time I'm speaking - not for the conference as a whole. Amazing, but true... So I guess it doesn't go without saying after all.
Rockford Lhotka
Tuesday, November 21, 2006 1:11:05 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I know what you are saying about the conference admission... I find it shocking as well when they don't include it... such is the case with the SPA (formerly OT) conference in the UK...
Daniel Moth
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