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Today's heroes don't need superhuman strength, or x-ray vision - they need communities, code and choices to develop and deploy amazing software. Read more about these {Open Source} Heroes, who are doing amazing work with open source software and Microsoft technology. Do what you love, do it well. {Open Source} Heroes Happen Here.
Read their stories and watch their videos below.
 |  | Name: Sherman Wood
Title: Project lead
Place of work: JasperSoft
Location: Splits his time between Sydney, Australia, and San Francisco, California
Inspiration: Former JasperSoft CEO Paul Doscher
Hobbies: His family, sailing, the theater
Favorite comic book hero: Nite Owl, one of the faded superheroes from the Watchmen series
Tools of the trade: a grab bag - Java, Windows, SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, AJAX, web services
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Sherman Wood on: Open Source
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|  | Name: Hank Janssen
Title: Group program manager
Place of work: Microsoft's Open Source Lab
Location: Redmond, WA
Inspiration: His father, wife, step-son and dogs
Hobbies: Sailing, search and rescue, training for a triathlon
Favorite comic book hero: Tintin
Tools of the trade:
Linux, Unix, Windows, Open Source
software - and a really positive attitude
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Hank Janssen on: His job
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|  | Name: Nimish Pachapurkar
Title: Staff engineer
Place of work: SpikeSource
Location: Redwood City, CA
Inspiration: His parents and his wife
Hobby: Indian music from the 1950s and 1960s
Favorite superhero: Batman
Tools of the trade:
Linux, PHP, C, Java, Python, Vim;
plus scripts, plug-ins and shortcuts he's created
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Nimish Pachapurkar on: His impact
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|  | Name: Steve Bjorg
Title: Founder and CTO
Place of work: MindTouch
Location: San Diego, CA
Inspiration: His peers
Tools of the trade:
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Windows
Linux
OSX
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Steve Bjorg on: His start and the Commodore
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|  | Name: Todd Ogasawara
Title: Technology Analyst
Place of work: State Government
Location: Honolulu, HI
Inspiration: MacGyver
Tools of the trade:
Microsoft SQL Server
Apache
Linux
IronRuby
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Todd Ogasawara on: How I got started
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|  | Name: Chris Travers
Title: Owner
Place of work: Meditron Consulting
Location: Chelan, WA
Inspiration: His grandmother
Hobby: Studying Linguistics
Tools of the trade: NET, Perl, TCL, php, Python, Java, Linux, Windows
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Chris Travers on: Favorite Open Source Project
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|  | Name: Tom Hanrahan
Title: Director of Linux Interoperability
Place of work: Microsoft
Location: Redmond, WA
Inspiration: The ability to create change
Favorite Hero: The Green Lantern
Tools of the trade: Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (Novell)
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Tom Hanrahan on: Open Source
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|  | Name: Jim Hugunin
Title: Software Architect for the Dot Net Framework Team
Place of work: Microsoft
Location: Mercer Island, WA
Inspiration: His Dad
Favorite Hero: The Brain, of "Pinky & The Brain"
Tools of the trade: Python, Iron Ruby, Silverlight, OSX, Windows
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Jim Hugunin on: Open Source
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|  | Name: John Lam
Title: Program Manager
Place of work: Microsoft
Location: Redmond, WA
Inspiration: Richard Feynman
Tools of the trade:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008
IronRuby
C#
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John Lam on: Inspiration
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|  | Name: Sue Forsberg
Title: Senior Software Manager
Place of work: Novell Corporation
Location: Cambridge, MA
Inspiration: Tedy Bruschi
Tools of the trade:
Silverlight
Windows Server 2008
SUSE Linux Enterprise
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