Yesterday, I attended the Make Web Not War 2011 event about open source web development ( http://www.webnotwar.ca/ ) that Microsoft sponsored, this year in Vancouver. There were other sponsors too, including Telerik, but Samsung was the largest other than Microsoft. Two tracks of sessions, but one session that was quite interesting was "Open Source & Microsoft" with Boris Mann, Brendan Sera-Shriar, Julia Stowell, Mark Reale & Garrett Serack. Generally, there was no mention of DNN anywhere, even in that session about Microsoft. The only CMS featured in the technical tracks was Drupal.

After the session on Open Source & Microsoft, I talked with the fellow in charge of open source projects at Microsoft about Dot Net Nuke and how it was a perfect solution for many of the problems people were complaining about with Drupal's license, and with lack of open source opportunities on the Microsoft stack. He agreed with me that DNN is often overlooked as an open source option by many in the community.

I talked to several people about DNN and some of them were aware of it and intended to check it out sometime. I told them how I had researched the options years ago and the reasons I decided to go with DNN over the alternative CMSs.

It occurs to me that this could be a good opportunity for Dot Net Nuke Corporation to get involved with the couple hundred people attending this Canadian event, maybe become a sponsor, and maybe be involved in some of the sessions. It was held in Toronto last year, Vancouver this year, and I am not sure where it will be next year, but people attended from all over Canada.