Francesco Crippa

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!

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

To be in Malaga requires you a little trip in Granada, a beautiful city in the south of the Spain, where occidental and oriental architecture join all together to create something special: Alhambra.

Lot of sun and lot of funny after three days of really hard working

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.

Performace tuning in Amsterdam this week! Nice city with lot of funny things…

Flowers….

People…

…and friends

California is wonderful! Especially San Francisco Bay… it’s great, trust me!

In particular MontainView is out of the world… Wifi and laptop everywhere. Working on internet (ssh, o yea!) during a little break in a quite  caffeterie it’s very strange for an Italian guy (in Italy there isn’t anything like this… just few  “pay-per-use” hot-spot , but not in bars or pubs:( )

Unfortunately I had not so much time to visit all places I wanted to see. I spent few days between San Francisco, Los Ageles and San Diego (and, of course, a night in Las Vegas!).

For the next time I’m planning to visit some national parks (in particular Yosemite) and Grand Canyon (to far for this time)

One of my prefered shots….

Los Angeles Skyscrapers

Golden Gate

Great (but short) day in Florence. After Linux Load Balancing configurations (RedHat Piranha), a few hours to visit the town. Very nice city. It’s always a pleasure to come back to Florence!

Florence by Night from Michelangelo square

Ponte Vecchio

Another shot of Ponte Vecchio

…and another one….

Round trip to London in a day for a meeting… just the time to see London Tube

Tube-in…

…and tube-out

…and a quick tea-time. Great tea and mint in Momo’s

Great weekend in London, the best place for Christmas shopping! Hamleys is a seven-floor toy’s shop, you can find everything you need for kids! And for the “not-so-young-kids”, you could try the Apple store…

I suggest you to take some time-off for a walk in the town during Christmas. It’s incredible! A trip to Greenwich by the “Foot Tunnel” and “Blackheath” is an interesting alternative to usual routes (thanks John! Very nice place!).

And, please, try the special “spiced tea” made by The Tea House: it’s the best!

London blinking Skyline

A day in Apple Store

skyscrapers

If you’ve got to work during the day, you can ejoy youself during the night! A nice walk in Rome during the night.

Altare della Patria

Vatican