18 Nov, 2008
Recently Byte-Code has started a new kind of “social” event: Free as a Beer!
It’s a very smart and informal way to join together developers, supporters and other kind of “open-source” lovers.
Last week I was in Rome and Milan to join a couple of “free-as-a-beer” event, and I really enjoyed it! At the end I counted more or less 150 pints of (free) beer. I hope to see new calendar soon for other cities 
…and, of course, all beers are provided by Byte-Code for free!!!
14 Nov, 2008
With the (usual) couple of weeks of delay, here you are some funny shots taken on Halloween party in Byte-Code. On FaceBook you an find all other “byte-code” related event taken in Halloween… :-)
I think we should make a contest to select the “best” (or ridiculous) photo. What do you think about it?
Lucia
Marco Mornati
Candies (more or less…)
Samuele in “relaxing area”…
…and Samuele and his beloved katana
7 Nov, 2008
I’ve been a bit too busy during this “post August Holiday” period (yep, very long period!)… so my blog is affected by an evident obsolescence… (and my “email-in-queue-to-be-answered too…)
Now it’s time to fix some promises I took some weeks ago.
In particular, I’ve promised to condor team to publish online my photos taken on European Condor Week in Barcelona.
So, here you are:
All of us
Zach and Todd
Davide (why he’s hearing music? dunno…)
The wonderful location for the event. Really cool!
See you next-next year in Poland.
7 Nov, 2008
As usual, during last week of October, Linux Day was made in Italy, in more than 123 cities!
It’s one of the most exciting event about OpenSource in Italy. I’ve got the honour to present a couple of talks about Fedora and the history of Linux (as “political” talk) and Ruby on Rails (as technical talk).
I’m not sure why some guys want to change the event name to “gnu/linuxday” (it’s horrible!).
I hope it still remains just “Linux Day”
Matteo
Luca
Davide
Stefano
Me
Alessio
14 Sep, 2008
OK, I’ve got to spend more time on my blog. My previous post was more than three months ago… But I’d like to make a little comment about my flight and show you some photos taken during my little holiday in Ireland.
Flight from Milan to Dublin was really comfortable, the problem was when I and Lucia tried to come back: AerLingus move ourselves through 5 (five!!!!!) different desks (with their own queue) before let us to make our check-in… and, finally, we tried to check-in when flight was closed (only 3 minutes, but it was enough).
AerLingus said “sorry, but we can’t make a check-in 3 minutes after the closing time (37 minutes before the take-off… without any baggages to send…), but this problem is an AerLingus problem, We’re so sorry about that. We’ll pleasure to get you at home with the next flight to Milan…… TOMORROW!!!”.
The problem was that “tomorrow” was to late for me. My flight from Milan to Prague (to attendee FUDCon in Brno) took-off 3 hours before AerLingus flight… so it was impossible for me to be present in Brno… Thanks to AerLingus organization….
So I bought a flight directly from Dublin to Prague with RyanAir, at 6.00 AM :-/, and Lucia came back to Milan with AerLingus “solution”
…and, of course, AerLingus didn’t pay the night that we spent in the airport hotel…
By the way, Ireland is an incredible beautiful country, and the people are able to make you at home. I hope to come back soon (maybe with RyanAir?????? ) to join again Guinness, Irish coffee and yummy porridge.
Irish Coffee and Guinness, Symbols of Ireland
Cliff of Moher
Awesome!
Amazing landscape
7 Jul, 2008
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:
http://flickr.com/photos/fcrippa/sets/72157606007698396/
I’m looking forward to attendee next FUDCon in Europe!
Boston University is a “bit” better then my old University in Italy…. isn’t it?
FUDCon @ Pub - Outdoor
Paul
Mairin
Michael: you need a portable tripod
7 Jul, 2008
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
http://flickr.com/photos/fcrippa/sets/72157605997710938/
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! 
7 Jul, 2008
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!
Neon
Audience
11 Jun, 2008
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
8 Jun, 2008
I’ve finished to upload LinuxTag photos and my presentation, and here you are the links:
…and a little reviews about event:
- it was great
- Fedora booth was great
- Fedora ambassadors were better then great
- Social event was great
- Social event wearing the official “Fedora bathrobe” was hot! …maybe too hot…
- USB Filling station was great… but also fixable…
see you next year!
Me
Paul, me and Max
OLPC in action!
Jens, Dag, Tim and me
