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The GitHub event announced a great new feature - GitHub Sponsors. GitHub Sponsors is a new way to financially support the developers who build the open source software you use every day. See the full announcement blog post for more information. Recognizing Contributors Recently, Brian Clark introduced me to all-contributors (https://github.com/all-contributors/all-contributors) an awesome way to recognize contributors to your project. The installation is super easy. Enable the bot on your repository, and you're ready to go. Good practice is to have a CONTRIBUTING.md in your repo not only to encourage good practices but to also set expectations and standards. Adding contributors There are a few ways in which our contributors get added to the table...

Taking on a new role as a Sr. Cloud Developer Advocate withing the Cloud and Enterprise group. What does that mean? Talking to the community about the technologies that I love; ASP.NET, ASP.NET Core, Docker, services and how these can best be run on Azure and what we as a community can do to make it better. docs.microsoft.com, where I have spent my time since joining Microsoft, is a very important part of what we are moving to accomplish. With a new look at documentation for all of the products; Azure, ASP.NET/ASP.NET Core, Visual Studio and many more products continue to migrate over to the new Open Source platform. I will continue to...

Had a great time presenting at dotnetconf, even with the A/C broken a the house. Appreciate the comments and feedback. Although this was not super sexy new stuff, it is a real business case and a question I get asked more often than you think..."How do I connect ASP.NET Core to WCF or even node.js to SOAP Services". When I started looking at the issue a few weeks ago, there was very little documented, which is why I wanted to put the talk and demo out there. Code is available at http://github.com/spboyer/dotnetconf2016...

ASP.NET Core Here is another edition of "Weekly Ink", this week's post has a great entry from Rick on running ASP.NET Core on IIS, Cory shows how to add 3rd party libraries when using the angular CLI, see how to deploy docker containers to kubernetes on AWS seriously? and my favorite request has surfaced within VS Code; terminal built in! How To Specify Framework When Running ASP.NET Core Apps - Steve Smith Publishing and Running ASP.NET Core Applications with IIS - Rick Strahl Introduction to integration testing with xUnit and TestServer in ASP.NET Core - Andrew Lock Angular 2 Quick Angular 2 Hosting with the Angular CLI and GitHub Pages - TJ VanToll Angular 2...

This will be the official sign up page for the .NET Core Slack Channel. Please share this page with your communities. Thanks for your participation! Core team members and community members have joined! Constant discussions on relative ASP.NET Core & .NET Core announcements, topic specific channels. Grow the community, be a good citizen and benefit from one another. The post on why I like it, why it's important....