Travis Swicegood

MTS07 - Microsoft and Local Software Economy

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March 28 2007
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Travis Swicegood

John Fernandes, johnfe@ - Director, International Business Development

He's a big time marathon runner.

The Local Software Economy Initiative is about creating new markets on governments and such by creating supply - getting people trained, companies using MS products, etc - and creating demand by getting companies and governments using the software.

His goal is drive relationships on a long-term basis. Building long-term growth as "people deal with who they know".

This was a more economics based presentation. Interesting, but it didn't keep my attention. I ended up working on my S3 proposal on the Zend Framework.

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Travis Swicegood is a professional programmer and owner of Domain51, a web development company with a focus on non-profits, NGOs, and online activists. He doesn't change the world, he supports those who do.

He has personal a focus on web applications, performance, and stability; is author of Pragmatic Version Control using Git; and working on his second book. He has been using PHP; since '99 and still remembers how revolutionary PHP 4 was, but can't remember why. He's a TDD, open-source, and open government advocate—sometimes called a zealot—and lurker on many an open-source project mailing list when not learning other programming; languages; for fun, exploring his surroundings on bike, or tasting his latest kitchen and home-brew creations.

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