OK, ApacheCon was some time ago. I was very busy the last weeks, but I still want to write something about my impressions.
Let's start from the scratch. We started 2nd May from Berlin. Having some security trouble at the airport we reached Amsterdam aproximately 1h later. After checking into our hotel, we went through the Amsterdam harbor and reached the Mövenpick Hotel were the ApacheCon tooks place. After that I had my first face-to-face contact with Apache members when I met the registration board. You can see a picture of those cool guys below. Unfortunately my registration was misplaced and thus it took the whole day to get me in officially.
During the following days I met a lot of very talented programmers and heard many interesting talk. It was very impressive and inspiring to be surrounded by so much intelligence. And Amsterdam is still a nice place to go as well. Summarized, I enjoyed this conference very much and plan to attend next year again.
Lars and I will attend to the ApacheCon Europe 2007 in Amsterdam from today till Friday. If you will be there, write me a mail or leave a comment if you want to meet with us.
During the next days I will write about my impressions and upload some nice pics from Amsterdam and the conference.
If you want to meet with me for discussing things related to Mindquarry, my work or other topics, I will attend to the following conferences:
- 4. Conference on Knowledge Management: March 28-30 in Potsdam
- ApacheCon Europe 2007: May 1-4 in Amsterdam
Last friday Lars and I received our master grade in software systems engineering at the public graduation ceremony of the HPI. It was very impressive to see all those young and highly skilled software engineers that will start working now. You may ask: What, those guys didn't finish their studies up to now? Yes, that's true. In the beginning of 2006 we saw that it was the right time to start development of a product like the Mindquarry Collaboration Server. Therefore we decided to start Mindquarry even if our studies were not finished.
During the last months it was very hard to work for Mindquarry full time and write my master thesis at the weekend. But finally all this hard work was rewarded with the promising start of Mindquarry and a very good master grade. Below you can see a picture of me with robe, cap and sash that was made by a professional photographer after the ceremony.
At the graduation ceremony, Prof Scheer former member of the SAP supervisory board and founder of IDS Scheer gave a talk about transfering knowledge from university to the real world. While his presentation was more a kind of story telling about the way of IDS Scheer towards business process management consulting, there was one slide which was really impressive. On this slide Prof. Scheer showed his opinion about the ideal mixture for an entreprenerial team. The main characters you need in your team are:
- Albert Einstein for analytical and visionary thinking,
- James Bond for flexibility and fighting spirit,
- Willi Brand for showing that you are serous and believable, and finally
- Daniel Düsentrieb for getting things done on the technical side.
If you know us, I let it up to you to decide which one of us fits into which category...