How The RD Program Got Started
The Regional Director (RD) Program at Microsoft officially started back in 1994 when a group of Visual Basic Users Group leaders met at a pool hall in Seattle and were proposed a novel approach to launching Developer products called DevDays. This was a day long event around the launch of a product that emulated a true "Community Driven" Users Group meeting. There was an original group of eight RD's. Since then the program grew beyond the DevDays concept to be a group of over 100 worldwide community Microsoft technical evangelists. This group of community leaders speak, write and participate in a myriad events centered on Microsoft technologies. Probably most importantly, this group of leaders holds no punches when telling Microsoft their candid ideas and feelings about their products and services!
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