Two years after Canness RedHat event, a new summit reserved to RedHat Partners strikes back in Europe (Malaga). This time the format is a bit changed, and now it seems really similar to the offical RedHat Summit (USA).
I’ve spent three long days (for “long” I mean get up at 7.00 AM and never go to sleep untill 2.00 AM…) speching with other european partners about new solutions in Linux and JBoss markets and new opportunities for OpenSource software over the European countries. For me it was also my first occasion to meet Jim Whitehurst (new RedHat CEO) and to hear him saying things that are already MUST in Byte-Code, such as share custom customers software as OpenSource, to avoid writing and re-writing same things every time, not only to build “OpenSource products”, but also to build “OpenSource customers”.
It was also a great occasion to meet some old friends I didn’t see from a long long time, and to know new exciting friends.
It was also first big event for Carmen, RedHat employee since last month, now involved into RedHat Marketing team. I hope to see her also in Fedora marketing as soon as possibile
In my hopinion the only big missing stuff in the event was Fedora. Of course, it was a “business” event, but I can’t belive RedHat wants to manage event where community is too far, also because bussiness could (IMHO should) need to know the “voice of community”.
Due to the party on the beach I couldn’t attendee last Fedora Ambassadors meeting, last Wednesday, but I’d like to put this event in agenda for next year also for Fedora community.
Davide Presentation about JBoss migration is ready
Last weekend I was in Brussels, during FOSDEM 2008. For me it was the first time at this event, but surely not the last!
It attire geeks from all countries over the world, and not only form the Europe: I’ve met a lot of people coming from USA and Canada (just to say that it really is a international event).
All the FOSDEM days were very busy. The event was very crowded. Location (Brussels University) was good, but the booth (actually it was a couple of simple desktops) were placed into a very small hall, and you know how many people Fedora attract!
Result is what you can see on this flickr photos set: a really crowded room …and without a free buffet!!!
Great occasion also to meet different developers from all kind of projects (especially thanks to Lillian and Thomas from RedHat IcedTea Java team: all information they presented is very useful for my job on JBoss and other Java related stuff. Really happy to join their session).
I’m so sorry to not having the time yet to fix “Fedora Ambassadors Stats Script” with Fabian. I hope to have enough time this week to publish a skeleton for new improvements and (maybe) start a project to make statistics abut Fedora Project easily.
But for me (and not only for me) this event represents something more important: with other European Fedora Ambassadors, we’ve founded “Fedora EMEA”, a NPO (non-profit organization) with the goal to improve support for fedora community in all EMEA countries.
After the event, Fedora Ambassadors had a dinner on Saturday evening (thanks to Kanarip to show me what is a “Steak Tartre” in the real world, and also thanks to the restaurant to have a lot of other things in the menu!), where we have signed the statutes of new Fedora EMEA NPO.
Really good trip where I’ve met new friends that I hope to meet again as soon as possible.
Yesterday night was a Fedora Night! “Fedora by Night” attracted a lot of Linux enthusiasts from Lodi and near zones.
Thanks to LOLUG for help, availability and visibility.
Night started with quick introduction by Davide Cerri about LOLUG, Linux and other useful stuff, continued with my presentation about Fedora Project and the Community behind Fedora, and closed by Simone Pucci with a rapid overview about how Fedora is built and managed.
Questions and answers time was pretty exciting. More then 40 minutes of questions from the crowd about Fedora and the future of Linux (Microsoft, Novell and Mono/.NET involvements were the main delicate issues we discussed).
Thanks to all people who helped me and Lolug to organize this event! I hope to see now and again something like that with more and more attendees!
Wonderful evening spent in “Boccon Divino” during last “Byte-Code” Christmas Party.
Food was very very very very good, but it was really really really too much for us… I’ve never left dessert for ages, but there’s always a first time After last cheese I couldn’t eat anything else. I won’t be able to be hungry for (at least) next week…
But food was not the main topic of the party… alcohol’s, wine and “grappa” were the really leaders of the evening. Please, have a look of my flickr shots to see what happened
You can see some shots taken during the first “OpenSource Days”, an event proposed by Magirus (Byte-Code Partner) and sponsored by RedHat and MySQL (also Byte-Code partner….).
Good partecipation (especially in Rome) with very interesting contacts.
After the cancellation of “Linux World Expo” it could be one of the most important event about Linux and OpenSource in Italy with “business” point of view
Great days spend in San Diego during annual RedHat Summit. Food, drinks and funny social networking events with “redhat crowd”. Especially I’m happy for the meeting with guys from “et-mgmt-tool” group, one of the most interesting project sponsored by RedHat.
Please, have a look about cobbler and puppet. I think these solutions may be one of the most innovative point of view in provisioning services and configuration management
First annual MeetUp made by Byte-Code! A funny day spent in technical and strategical sessions and GOLF! Golf is a strange sport. I thought it should be not so hard, like a “game”, not a sport… instead it’s very very hard! At the end of the day all people were very tired but happy to be there.
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