Visiting London 22 Sep to 18 Oct

[David E Jones-2]

Hello all,

I'll be in the London area from the 22nd of September through the  
18th of October. During the 3 work weeks in there I'll be working  
during the day, and I'll be available at the weekends and the off  
days early and late in the trip. On the days I'm working I'll be in  
Hemel Hempstead, and for the 2nd and 3rd weeks I'll actually be  
staying in nearby Watford.

I'd love to meet with anyone who is in the area while I'm over there.  
In past trips to many places it has been a consistently great  
experience to meet with OFBiz users and others interested in the  
project, and on trips to the UK it has been great to meet and spend  
some time with people like Andrew Sykes and Ian Gilbert who are both  
pretty known in the OFBiz community.

If someone has resources to host a networking event, that would be  
really great too. A couple of people have approached me about  
possibly doing this in the past, and I'd be very much up for it.

Also, it was great to meet some of the Apache guys at OSCON a few  
weeks ago, like David Welton and J. Aaron Farr, and I actually met  
Leon Torres for the first time too. I've looked around a little but  
don't know of any ASF related things going on in that area during  
that time, but if there are any Apache folks around I'd be  
interesting in meeting. I know this is during the US ApacheCon, so it  
may not work out too well, but it's worth a try!

-David

[Christian Geisert]

David E Jones schrieb:
>
> Hello all,

[..]

> Also, it was great to meet some of the Apache guys at OSCON a few  weeks
> ago, like David Welton and J. Aaron Farr, and I actually met  Leon
> Torres for the first time too. I've looked around a little but  don't
> know of any ASF related things going on in that area during  that time,
> but if there are any Apache folks around I'd be  interesting in meeting.
> I know this is during the US ApacheCon, so it  may not work out too
> well, but it's worth a try!

Well, depending how you define "around that area" ;-) there's the Cocoon
GetTogether (http://www.cocoongt.org/) on October 2/3/4 in Amsterdam
where I *might* be there amongst lots of Cocooners and some FOP people.

You could also ask on [hidden email] (it seems there is no info on the
website but see
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-community/200310.mbox/%3C011601c39367$686b8fa0$7500a8c0@goliath%3E
for some information)

Christian

[David E Jones-2]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 6:52 PM, Christian Geisert wrote:

>> Also, it was great to meet some of the Apache guys at OSCON a few  
>> weeks ago, like David Welton and J. Aaron Farr, and I actually  
>> met  Leon Torres for the first time too. I've looked around a  
>> little but  don't know of any ASF related things going on in that  
>> area during  that time, but if there are any Apache folks around  
>> I'd be  interesting in meeting. I know this is during the US  
>> ApacheCon, so it  may not work out too well, but it's worth a try!
>
> Well, depending how you define "around that area" ;-) there's the  
> Cocoon
> GetTogether (http://www.cocoongt.org/) on October 2/3/4 in Amsterdam
> where I *might* be there amongst lots of Cocooners and some FOP  
> people.

That might be a little too far away for what I can do on this trip...  
Actually, if it it went over a weekend so I didn't have to be on-site  
those days I'd be tempted to go for it. I've never visited Amsterdam,  
but it's an interesting place and I wouldn't need too much of an  
excuse to go for it. ;)

> You could also ask on [hidden email] (it seems there is no info  
> on the
> website but see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www- 
> community/200310.mbox/%3C011601c39367$686b8fa0$7500a8c0@goliath%3E
> for some information)

I subscribed to the party list in case something comes up. If I get  
too bored maybe I'll even propose something...

-David

[davidnwelton]

> > You could also ask on [hidden email] (it seems there is no info
> > on the
> > website but see http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-
> > community/200310.mbox/%3C011601c39367$686b8fa0$7500a8c0@goliath%3E
> > for some information)

> I subscribed to the party list in case something comes up. If I get
> too bored maybe I'll even propose something...

Standard procedure on that list is usually along the lines of
announcing "hey, I'm in the area, anyone want to get a
beer/wine/whatever?".

I'll second the Amsterdam recommendation, it's a nice city.

--
David N. Welton
 - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/

Linux, Open Source Consulting
 - http://www.dedasys.com/

[Fabian Gorsler]

Hi,

David Welton wrote:

> Standard procedure on that list is usually along the lines of
> announcing "hey, I'm in the area, anyone want to get a
> beer/wine/whatever?".
>
> I'll second the Amsterdam recommendation, it's a nice city.

well, I'm not a developer like you are, but I'd really like to attend to
this meeting. Amsterdam would be nice, less than 300km for me.

Best regards,
Fabian.

[davidnwelton]

> well, I'm not a developer like you are, but I'd really like to attend to
> this meeting. Amsterdam would be nice, less than 300km for me.

Just so it's clear, I'm not one of the OFBiz developers.  I'm acting
as a mentor at the ASF for the project, but that's an organizational
thing rather than a code thing.

--
David N. Welton
 - http://www.dedasys.com/davidw/

Linux, Open Source Consulting
 - http://www.dedasys.com/