RedHat Summit was great, but not as much as FUDCon! It was an occasion for me to know a lot of people that I only knew by “Internet” tools… and an handshake sometime is better then a hundred emails
Format was “barcamp“, a social and interactive way to schedule presentations and talks (very appropriate in a “Fedora context”).
Now I’m involved into some opensource projects (especially about “configuration management”), and I’ve been happy to met other developers and sysadmins really into this topic (Func, CSI, Puppe and so on….). I see good things at the horizon…
Here you are the link to see some shots taken during the event:
Too many places, to many people, too many photos… I can’t tell you how great this trip was (I can’t attendee RH Summit without spending a couple of weeks in USA…).
Here you are a link to see some shots taken during this wonderful trip
Just a “thanks” and “see you soon” to Marcelo, a friend of mine (from Argentina) that I see only during my trips in USA. I hope to meet you in Argentina next time, and I hope before next year!
After a couple of weeks, here I am to write a quickly post about RedHat Summit.
It was the first time for me in Boston (Great and beautiful city) and I really enjoyed the Summit, especially social events like party at Fenway Stadium or dinner at the 50th floor of Prudential Centre (see photos below). RedHat parties are great as usual!
On the square, food quality wasn’t every time so good… Definitely +1 for the Lobster Ravioli (have you ever tasted this kind of ravioli in Italy?), but surely -1 for the “welcome cocktail” or sandwiches served during meal… Sorry, but I’m Italian guy…
BTW, Summit surely represents the most important opportunity to keep in touch with lot of “remote friends”, colleagues and come out with new ideas and new business strategies.
Fedora is everywhere
Me and Jim
Fenway Stadium with the Boston skyline in background. Awesome!
Every year, Byte-Code organizes a event for its employees and consultants to build new strategies and watching new technologies all together.
This year focus was agile approach on java development, with technologies like groovy and grails. There were also some very interesting (and useful!) presentations about regression tests for web applications, project management strategies an, last but not least, some new and innovative products developed in Byte-Code and released under GPL license: Symbolic and “SuperVisor”.
Antonio (RedHat channel manager) presented the “strong” relationship between Byte-Code, RedHat and JBoss. The only problem was the time! There wasn’t enough time to make some discussion about technologies after presentations… surely next year we’ll try to organize something better and with much more time!
All presentation were very professional and have opened new opportunities for lot of byte-code crew!
But this is nothing compared to the rafting activity planned for Saturday! It was simply great! I’ve never done rafting before, but it is very exciting and awesome!
It was really “go wet”, not only for rafting… it rained during for all the time of the event! …as usual (the same last year for golf activities…)
Samuele trust me that all material made for the event (slides, videos and so on…) will be available online as soon as possible.
I really would like to thank you all Byte-Code people for all theirs help and contributions. MeetUp is being a really cool event!
Byte-Code People
Go Wet! Rafting rules
Simone’s presentation
Nice girls
Gourmet activities…
Feedback withe board was filled by lot of notes
I’m here! ….with some red hat presents made by Antonio
I’m writing this post on “Dev-Room”, in Berlin, during LinuxTag
The event is great (as every year), and Fedora is a bright light! As you can see in attached photos, Fedora Ambassadors are really recognizable everywhere (not only at the conferences center, but also on underground, at the restaurant, …and also on the shower!!!!) by the blue polo and the tons of gadgets
….and, of course, we’re (maybe) the biggest community present at LinuxTag… so it’s quite impossible to visit LinxTag and don’t remember Fedora group!
I’ve spent a lot of time to fix the Matteo script (called “Kobold“) to avoid some troubles due to some strange USB keys (yep, we’ve got an “USB Filling Station” in out booth. A lot of people come with their 1Gb usb pen and ask us to fill it with a fresh fedora 9 live image)
Great occasion to meet new and old friends and to spend a very good (and a bit hard) time
Yesterday night I spent about 6 hours (between 9.00 pm to 3.00 am!!!) on Fedora 9 Release Party in Lodi, the first official party in Italy (next will be in Florence and Rome by the end of the month).
It was great!
There were about 30/40 people, interested in new features but also interested in “how to join” Fedora Project, and -of course- interested in beer! I, Luca and Gianluca (North Italy Fedora Ambassadors have being present) helped these guys to make their usb live key bootable, solve their questions about Fedora 9 and open their bottles!
Thanks to FAMSCO budget we could buy a lot of yummy food! And also thanks to moms and grandmothers that cooked cakes and pies with “volunteer” contributions
Last but not least, thanks to Luca Foppiano. He organized all aspects of event: “spamming” by email, do the shopping, make the slides and so on, and all of these stuffs went really really well!
I’m proud to read my name on your list, and I hope to contribute over and over again in the future.
But I think you’ve forgotten (at least) a couple of names: Samuele Storari (the “art director” of Fedora 9 Release Party Poster and USB Filling Station, Fedora Art Team member), and Matteo Castellini (the author of Kobold, the software that makes possible to auto-fill usb keys automatically when you put your pen into usb port…).
I’ll try to persuade Matteo to join Fedora Ambassadors tonight, during our party… We need so talented people in our (Italian) team
…and another thing! During last PyCon it, 4 (yes, you’ve got it: four!) Italian Ambassadors meet each other in Florance to define organization abut Release Parties (and also to have a good appetizer …). Right now Italian Fedora Ambassadors Community is very tight-knit! Last six months were very useful to build a strong Italian Community around Fedora
What about LiberaMente? Yet another Linux conference
Fedora booth was staged with lot of cool stuff: a OLPC, an Asus EeePC, some live cd-roms, t-shirts, hats, posters, thin clients (thanks to Luca) and (awesome) the “Fedora USB pen self-service kiosk”!
The tool to build usb live pen on demand was a great success! Lot of people wanted to put their usb pens into the kiosk and see what happens!
But this time there were also some important news! First of all: Fedora Italian Community meeting.
For the first time, five Fedora Ambassadors meet each other into the real world. We discussed about next Italian events (release parties, for instance), budgets management and Fedora EMEA interactions. Italian Fedora Ambassadors are now more cohesive and integrated. Wonderful start to make good work for the future!
Other important thing: we’ve got to keep our eye on Fedora Account System to discover if some people we’ve met are joined Fedora Project. I think at least one guy from Florance is very interested to be Fedora contributor!
So, see you at Fedora 9 release party!
Luca, Andrea, Francesco, Gianluca and me. Fedora Ambassadors
Now the view out of my office window is pretty good. Only leaf green and hay-filed. The sad, unhappy (and never finished) reinforced concrete skyscraper monster was pulled down yesterday at 10.30 AM.
It was a bad remember of public investments spent for the latest Soccer World Championship in Italy (Italy ‘90). Now, in this area, will be re-factored with some parking and a new useful underground station to get Milan ready for next Worldwide Expo 2015.
Italian people spent to build a monster, spent to pull it down, and now, we’ll spend to rebuild this area again. I really hope to see finished this works by the end of 2015, and don’t see much more money spent for another “under construction (for ages)” building…
By the way, for the moment I’m enjoying my new wonderful view out of my office in Milan
