My personal report of ApacheCon US 2015

[Jacopo Cappellato-5]

Hi all,

here is my personal report about ApacheCon US 2015.

I arrived on Sunday, after one week spent in Salt Lake City @ Hotwax headquarters with Anil and Mike, and we left on Friday.

The conference of the Apache Software Foundation was, as usual, well managed and a great chance to meet in person a lot of ASF fellow members, committers, contributors and friends.
I was pleased to meet in person Adrian for the first time and to see again Hans, Ean and Adam after 7 years (we met the first time @ ApacheCon US New Orleans in 2008).
Sakthi was a pleasant surprise for me because I didn't know him: his presentation was interesting and he shared a lot of valuable information in a clear way; Sakthi's knowledge of OFBiz is really deep and I hope to see him more and more involved with the project.
I also met and spent some valuable time with Darrell ([hidden email]): he is a very smart person that works with OFBiz since a few years and implemented an amazing project on it. These are the user stories I like to hear!!! I hope Darrell will be more and more involved in OFBiz as well.
At the bar, restaurant, during coffee breaks etc... we had some chats about ideas for the project, its tools, etc... but, frankly speaking, while I always love to talk about OFBiz with people that are as passionate as me for it, this is the part that is less important in such meetings: technical details and plans are better discussed in the mailing list where there is a wider audience, an archive/log, and more time to think and research.

Apart from OFBizers, I also met several other friends and "colleagues" at ASF and the conversations with them have been pleasant and valuable.
Not to mention the great time I spent with Anil and Mike, my partners at Hotwax.

Austin was a surprise: it was my first time in Texas, and I was expecting a dry city in the desert where a vegetarian like me could starve :-) but I have found a warm, nice, green city with a beautiful river (Colorado, the view from my hotel room at the 8th floor was terrific)... and the food was also very good!

Regards,

Jacopo

[Jacques Le Roux]

Thanks Jacopo for this pleasant report :)

I agree with you about sharing technical details and plans being better in the MLs.

Jacques

Le 21/04/2015 13:08, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> here is my personal report about ApacheCon US 2015.
>
> I arrived on Sunday, after one week spent in Salt Lake City @ Hotwax headquarters with Anil and Mike, and we left on Friday.
>
> The conference of the Apache Software Foundation was, as usual, well managed and a great chance to meet in person a lot of ASF fellow members, committers, contributors and friends.
> I was pleased to meet in person Adrian for the first time and to see again Hans, Ean and Adam after 7 years (we met the first time @ ApacheCon US New Orleans in 2008).
> Sakthi was a pleasant surprise for me because I didn't know him: his presentation was interesting and he shared a lot of valuable information in a clear way; Sakthi's knowledge of OFBiz is really deep and I hope to see him more and more involved with the project.
> I also met and spent some valuable time with Darrell ([hidden email]): he is a very smart person that works with OFBiz since a few years and implemented an amazing project on it. These are the user stories I like to hear!!! I hope Darrell will be more and more involved in OFBiz as well.
> At the bar, restaurant, during coffee breaks etc... we had some chats about ideas for the project, its tools, etc... but, frankly speaking, while I always love to talk about OFBiz with people that are as passionate as me for it, this is the part that is less important in such meetings: technical details and plans are better discussed in the mailing list where there is a wider audience, an archive/log, and more time to think and research.
>
> Apart from OFBizers, I also met several other friends and "colleagues" at ASF and the conversations with them have been pleasant and valuable.
> Not to mention the great time I spent with Anil and Mike, my partners at Hotwax.
>
> Austin was a surprise: it was my first time in Texas, and I was expecting a dry city in the desert where a vegetarian like me could starve :-) but I have found a warm, nice, green city with a beautiful river (Colorado, the view from my hotel room at the 8th floor was terrific)... and the food was also very good!
>
> Regards,
>
> Jacopo
>
>
>

[Sakthivel Vellingiri]

Thanks Jacopo for the endorsement, I'm just finding it difficult to find
time in the middle of my full-time job and unable to spare as much time as
i wish, But i'm very excited & pumped up after participating in ApacheCon
2015, Let's see what that can bring to the table :-)


Regards
Sakthi

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Jacques Le Roux <
[hidden email]> wrote:

> Thanks Jacopo for this pleasant report :)
>
> I agree with you about sharing technical details and plans being better in
> the MLs.
>
> Jacques
>
>
> Le 21/04/2015 13:08, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit :
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> here is my personal report about ApacheCon US 2015.
>>
>> I arrived on Sunday, after one week spent in Salt Lake City @ Hotwax
>> headquarters with Anil and Mike, and we left on Friday.
>>
>> The conference of the Apache Software Foundation was, as usual, well
>> managed and a great chance to meet in person a lot of ASF fellow members,
>> committers, contributors and friends.
>> I was pleased to meet in person Adrian for the first time and to see
>> again Hans, Ean and Adam after 7 years (we met the first time @ ApacheCon
>> US New Orleans in 2008).
>> Sakthi was a pleasant surprise for me because I didn't know him: his
>> presentation was interesting and he shared a lot of valuable information in
>> a clear way; Sakthi's knowledge of OFBiz is really deep and I hope to see
>> him more and more involved with the project.
>> I also met and spent some valuable time with Darrell (
>> [hidden email]): he is a very smart person that works with OFBiz
>> since a few years and implemented an amazing project on it. These are the
>> user stories I like to hear!!! I hope Darrell will be more and more
>> involved in OFBiz as well.
>> At the bar, restaurant, during coffee breaks etc... we had some chats
>> about ideas for the project, its tools, etc... but, frankly speaking, while
>> I always love to talk about OFBiz with people that are as passionate as me
>> for it, this is the part that is less important in such meetings: technical
>> details and plans are better discussed in the mailing list where there is a
>> wider audience, an archive/log, and more time to think and research.
>>
>> Apart from OFBizers, I also met several other friends and "colleagues" at
>> ASF and the conversations with them have been pleasant and valuable.
>> Not to mention the great time I spent with Anil and Mike, my partners at
>> Hotwax.
>>
>> Austin was a surprise: it was my first time in Texas, and I was expecting
>> a dry city in the desert where a vegetarian like me could starve :-) but I
>> have found a warm, nice, green city with a beautiful river (Colorado, the
>> view from my hotel room at the 8th floor was terrific)... and the food was
>> also very good!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jacopo
>>
>>
>>
>>

[Sharan-F]

Hi

Thanks for the report Jacopo. It's always nice to hear  about individual experiences and user stories.

Once again I'd like to thank all our presenters - Jacopo, Hans, Ean, Adrian, Adam and Sakthi for making Apachecon NA a success for OFBiz.

I'd also like to thank Sakthi for volunteering to do his Apachecon presentation at the last moment when we were looking to fill a slot.

I'm really glad that you all came forward. It sounds like everyone enjoyed the experience of Apachecon.

Next up is Apachecon Europe - so we will be starting to look at preparations for that soon. It will be in Budapest again.

Thanks
Sharan

[darrell73s]

Thanks Jacopo!

It was good to meet you and all of the other folks in Austin last week. I'm looking forward to becoming more involved in the project, as you have mentioned.

Best Regards,
Darrell