{"id":881,"date":"2011-03-16T22:14:29","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/?p=881"},"modified":"2011-03-16T22:14:29","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T20:14:29","slug":"mvp-global-summit-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mariusbancila.ro\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/mvp-global-summit-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"MVP Global Summit 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MVP Global Summit 2011 took place in Redmond and Bellevue at the beginning of March. This year I attended for the fifth time, and as usual it was a great time. Fellow MVPs, discussions with the Microsoft product groups, parties, everything made it worth it. And this year it was also a little bit special because I was named C++ MVP of the Year, a distinction shared with Kate Gregory<\/a>. A 3rd C++ MVP, Sheng Jiang<\/a>, was also named MVP of the Year as top answerer in the MSDN forums. As an MVP of the Year I was invited to attend a dinner held by S. Somasegar<\/a>, senior vice president of the Developer Division at Microsoft, where I joined the other MVPs of the year in the awarded categories (such as C#, VB, ASP.NET, etc.), but also top figures from Microsoft, such as Scott Guthrie, Jason Zander, Anders Hejlsberg or Scott Hanselman and the Microsoft community leads. This is a picture from the event, showing, from left to right, Sheng Jiang, myself, Diego Dagum – Windows C++ community PM, and Kate Gregory. <\/p>\n

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Another special moment at this summit was being interviewed by Charles Torre for channel9<\/a>. He did several interviews with C++ MVPs and these interviews were posted on channel9 recently. Here<\/a> you can find the original post for the interview with Alon Fliess<\/a>, Bruno Boucard<\/a>, Jim Berveridge<\/a> and myself. We talked mostly about C++, but also the MVP program.<\/p>\n

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The other interviews that I mentioned can be found here:<\/p>\n