PASSMN Meeting 2024-11-19 (Virtual Meeting Only)

Important Note: This meeting is online only and will not be held at the Microsoft Technology Center

Agenda:
📅 Tuesday, November 19, 2024 📅
🕜 3:30-4:00 Kickoff / Announcements
🕜 4:00-5:00 Contributing to Open Source Microsoft Docs (William Assaf)
🕜 5:00-5:10 Break
🕜 5:10-6:10 Open for Virtual Networking
🕜 6:10-6:15 Closing

Sessions

🕜 4:00 pm
⭐️ Contributing to Open Source Microsoft Docs
🙂 William Assaf
How does Microsoft publish SQL Server Docs on GitHub? Join content developers from the Database Docs content team for an informative call to action on modern, open source Microsoft docs. Learn about the Docs publishing process in GitHub, and the best ways to add content and fixes to Docs that are read by the entire customer community. How can you be an effective part of that process and get contributor credit to a doc? What can contribution to Microsoft Learn mean for your Microsoft MVP status, your career, or your personal brand? Members of the Microsoft Database Docs team will answer these questions.

🕜 5:10 pm
⭐️ Open for Virtual Networking
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Speakers

🙂 Speaker 1
⚡️ Contributing to open source Microsoft Docs
William Assaf is a senior content developer on the Database Docs team at Microsoft and lead of Azure SQL docs. Formerly a Data Platform MVP and a consultant, and before that a .NET developer, William currently works with Microsoft product groups on content related to Microsoft SQL offerings, specifically over Azure SQL Database and Microsoft Fabric. As a consultant for 13 years he worked with clients on SQL Server and Azure SQL platform optimization, management, disaster recovery, and high availability, and led a multi-city team of senior consulting SQL DBA's. William has written for Microsoft SQL certification exams since 2011 and was the team lead author of the 2017, 2019, 2022 editions of "SQL Server Administration Inside Out" by Microsoft Press. William is a past lead of the annual SQL Saturday Baton Rouge Planning Committee and is a big fan of data platform communities far and wide.
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