Last week I got confirmation from Kevin Schuler that I’ve been nominated to become a member of the Microsoft Regional Director program for a two year period. I received the Regional Director agreement and the NDA agreement yesterday, so I figured it was about time I wrote a blog post about this.

It’s a great honor to become a Microsoft Regional Director. At the moment there are 4 RDs in Norway, and only about 160 world wide (dont know the exact number).

The other Norwegian RDs are

• Sondre Bjellås (also a new RD for the 2006/2007 period. Congratulations!)
• Trond Brande
• Morten Abrahamsen

It feels a bit strange to become a member of such a highly qualified and experienced group of people. Many of the RDs have written several books and are well recognized people in the software industry. Even tough I’m not as experienced as many of the other RDs I really think I can do a good job at promoting, evangelizing and educating people on Microsoft technology, and in special .NET development. I’m really looking forward to become an even more active member of the developer community.

Thanks a lot to Petter Schatvet and the other guys in the Norwegian MSDN team for nominating me!