{"id":257,"date":"2008-06-13T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openspaceworld.org\/news\/2008\/06\/13\/microsoft-mvps-in-open-space\/"},"modified":"2008-06-13T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T14:00:28","slug":"microsoft-mvps-in-open-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/2008\/06\/13\/microsoft-mvps-in-open-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft in Open Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most Valuable Invitation at Microsoft:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/techie.prepys.com\/\">Techie<\/a> is proud to have been <a href=\"http:\/\/techie.prepys.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/14\/thank-you-microsoft-for-hosting-mvp-2008\/\">invited<\/a> to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 at at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington.<\/p>\n<p>What is the MVP Global Summit?<br \/>\nThe MVP Global Summit is a four-day invitation-only event hosted at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. With more than 400 sessions and a variety of networking opportunities, the MVP Global Summit enables Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) and Regional Directors (RDs) to:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with other MVPs and RDs<br \/>\nEngage with Microsoft product managers<br \/>\nProvide valuable feedback directly to Microsoft on its products and technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights for 2008 include:<br \/>\nEvent closing technical discussion by Ray Ozzie, Microsoft chief software architect<br \/>\nKeynote by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft chief executive officer<br \/>\nDeep technical sessions by competency<br \/>\nCross-competency electives<br \/>\n<strong>Highly dynamic and interactive sessions, designed based on Open Space Technology, where you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll be able to define topics, attend, or even host<\/strong><br \/>\nAdditional activities designed to promote networking and meet attendees\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 diverse informational and business needs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>UPDATE:  Harrison Owen posted this today to the OSLIST&#8230; looks like another Microsoft open space:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Seems like the folks at the annual Microsoft Professional Development Conference are intending to open a little space. Definitely cutting edge, innovative \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Cheers for Microsoft. <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoftpdc.com\/View.aspx?post=91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8590057\">For the details<\/a>.  Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any idea who is doing it, but I am sure they will have a grand time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I especially like this bit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.managed-world.com\/2008\/06\/10\/OpenSpaceAtPDC2008.aspx\">from a Microsoft blog<\/a>:  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not only are we doing Open Space at PDC 2008, we want to make sure it is a _real_ Open Space. None of this &#8220;Microsoft doesn&#8217;t understand, they don&#8217;t grok it, they entirely and utterly butchered the whole Open Space concept&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most Valuable Invitation at Microsoft: Techie is proud to have been invited to this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Microsoft MVP Global Summit 2008 at at the Washington State Trade and Convention Center in Seattle and at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. What is the MVP Global Summit? The MVP Global Summit is a four-day invitation-only event hosted at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openspaceworld.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}