The Band on the Runtime Concert at PDC03

Christophe Lauer writes "Nicolas from Developers-Association has published a 24 minutes video that was taken during a private party at PDC03. The Band of the Runtime, Don Box's music band, played some standards and some more special songs."

Architects at TechEd 2004

Harry Pierson writes "My team owns the architect track for TechEd 2004. We're hoping to build on the very successful Architecture Symposium from PDC...Obviously, we'll have 'the usual' events: Ask the Experts, Birds of a Feather, Speaker Lounge, Attendee Party, etc. Any other suggestions?"

Fun for the Experts Too

Scott Guthrie writes "The ask the experts session on Tuesday night was my favorite. I brought along my laptop and spent about 5 hours coding up answers to questions from folks as we all sat around a small table and talked about the various projects/ideas we were working on. "

Meeting the Experts

Jim Causey writes "very friendly answers from MS guys, some relaxing and chatting over food, and the ability to really connect with the guys who actually work on Windows itself. Kind of a fulfillment of a dream for a long-time Windows nerd such as myself. "

Mono After-Action Report

Jim Causey writes "A bunch of Mono enthusiasts (including some of the coders on the project) gathered at the West Tower Lobby last night, and took over some table space with Miguel de Icaza. A lively Q&A session ensued..."

Bloggers to Meet at Attendee Party

Bloggers will be meeting during the Attendee Party at the Hollywood Grill inside Universal Studios on Wednesday at 8pm. If you have been blogging the PDC, come by and say hello to the other bloggers!

Time: Wednesday, 8:00pm

Place: Hollywood Grill in Universal Studios

Meet the Experts: The Longhorn Shell Team

Benjamin Mitchell writes "Meet the Experts last night was a chance to meet with the key Microsoft people over dinner in the dining hall (hanger?). "

Valuable Ask the Experts

Philip Rieck writes "One of the things that Microsoft is now doing really, really well is getting the community of developers involved. Part of that is blogs, part is gotdotnet, part is just Scoble... and a small but really cool part is the PDC ask the experts. "

Miguel on the Mono Project

Benjamin J. J. Voigt writes "Miguel detailed several project issues, and some MS and OSS hate/love took place. All in all a dashin experience, even tho we could not get a room"

WinFS Focus Groups

Jeremy Mazner writes "The WinFS team is looking for your input on this new and exciting technology in Longhorn. In this focus group, we will describe what WinFS is and look to you to provide feedback on what you think of the technology, its benefits and how you could leverage it in your applications."

Mono Get Together

Miguel de Icaza writes "Mono people: Lets get together on Tuesday 28th at 6pm at the West Tower Lobby in the LA Conventions Center at the PDC to discuss Mono. Pass the message."

Mono Discussions

Miguel de Icaza writes "Tomorrow we will devise a plot to get more people interested in Mono to get together; My plan right now is to take over one of those empty areas around 7pm and just get together around the tables. "

MVP Regional Summit

Julie Lerman writes "The day was filled with presentations from a number of different groups. First up was the director of the MVP program who of course lauded everyone for our participation in the community and talked about the importance of the MVP program to Microsoft"

Keynote Longhorn Demo

Oliver Fisher writes "Hillel's presentation is all about the new Windows Longhorn Shell look and feel and about how the shell has used and built upon the new Longhorn technologies. "

'Make an Avalon Screen Saver' Contest

Robert Scoble writes "The Avalon team is running a cool "make an Avalon Screen Saver" contest and will be giving away a Media Center Edition ($1500 value) and a couple of Xboxes. More info on that will be posted by Sunday here. "

Party at the Viper Room

DonXML Demsak writes "For those of you that have been asking, yes the Monday night blogger outing is still on. There is no official backing or sponsors, so it is up to us for transportation to and from the Viper Room."

Ask the Experts

Christian Weyer writes "There will be an Ask The Experts session at PDC on Tuesday evening (starting at 7.00 p.m.). Meet me there at the 'Distributed Applications' table."

Band on the Runtime

Don Box writes "Band on the Runtime - George Bullock has lined up several gigs at PDC and I think that at least one little ditty will be as memorable as anything I've dreamt up in the past."

Blogger Party

DonXML Demsak writes "With the PDC only a month away, and lots of supplemental events popping up, I thought I throw out the idea of a PDC Blogger Party. Something along the lines of the famous blogging dinners..."

SYS-CON Radio Interviews

Jon Box writes "I noticed that Chris Sells is pushing people to the SYS-CON Radio interview sign up site. Wait til he finds out who's doing the interviews! Check out the list..."