as the last line in the previous post said, the summit posts are being continued! :)
so, wake early - we did and set out. on asking the highly-dignified concierge [with funny gloves!], we were given the suggestion to take a rick or preferably walk down, since the venue was barely a km away. we were not sure of the road/location and hence decided to take the rick. however, thanks to speaking in hindi and thanks to our general misfortune in bangalore, no one was willing to come! so, again, walk - we did and were very kindly led in the wrong direction by this apparently-very-helpful-person, who we later realized was confused between 'the chancery' and 'chancery pavilion'! :)
anyway, we reached the venue and after a very brief security check, we registered. the folks at the registration desks were very friendly and dealt with a brisk pace - as a result keeping the queue short. we were given the basic welcome kits with material for the event [and some raddi / promotional material from the sponsors :)].
scheduled @ 930 was a session by one of the 'platinum' sponsors - microsoft (yes, you can gasp @ microsoft coming for an open source event + paying for its presence there!!).. sharp @ 930 the compere took to the mic.. and this i must write about.. i, for one, really admire elocutionary skills and the compere for the summit had an absolutely b-r-i-l-l-i-a-n-t voice!! she started off with a cheeky idea to make people switch off/silent their cell phones and then went on to introduce the event, sponsors, organizers.. she soon finished her speech [:( :(] and on came microsoft talking about interoperability and how they are really working in the open source community since 2004. his speech was more of a 'sachhi-believe-me, we do work for free/others too!'
after this forceful session, we were going to have 3 interesting tracks running in parallel with a large set of workshops/seminars to choose from. so the 5 of us split up and i went to ilya shinkarenko's - plug-in development. this workshop [??] had 9 labs where he gave basic tips and quick tricks on UI principles, basic OSGi, adapters, data-binding, extension-points and then scrammed through presentation & provisioning APIs. honestly this would have been an *amazing* workshop had it been a bit longer and ilya would have had the time needed to cover it all. but you can't blame ilya / organizers as well, since they had just as much time to fit it all in! in the other tracks, folks liked the 'gef & zest workshop' which had the ever-popular [and erstwhile rockstar] malai giving the session! :)
for the second part of the day, i decided to jump between the halls and first went to attend the 'design case study of a complex development tool [soa space] built on gef' - which IMHO was very boring :( i guess it made sense from the speaker's point of view to talk about their company requirements, development challenges, general abstract points about gef; but it didn't tell you anything new really!
i then went for 'eclipse 3.5 pde - target platform story' by ankur sharma. unfortunately for him there were some technical issues on account of which he had initiate a without-mic informal interaction with the crowd to talk about eclipse UI and requirements and complaints and general ranting.. his session was very useful for folks like me who yet weren't on 3.5 and hence, got to know about the useful cool new features in the galileo release of eclipse [i did not use API tooling earlier but thanks to ankur, this has become an inclusive part of all my work now!]..
and yeah in between all this, we had some greaat food [a *MUST* for any good event] and met a lot of interesting folks from the indian eclipse ecosystem! the organizers were always there if you needed some help or information and all the events were dot-on-time! at the end i also saw the traditional long queue for t-shirts [the signature saltmarch all-black-tee!!!].. and with all of this, came day one to an end [at the summit]!
and 'explore bangalore' began [which by-the-way will go in another post that just doesn't have the word *Eclipse* in it! :)]..
so, wake early - we did and set out. on asking the highly-dignified concierge [with funny gloves!], we were given the suggestion to take a rick or preferably walk down, since the venue was barely a km away. we were not sure of the road/location and hence decided to take the rick. however, thanks to speaking in hindi and thanks to our general misfortune in bangalore, no one was willing to come! so, again, walk - we did and were very kindly led in the wrong direction by this apparently-very-helpful-person, who we later realized was confused between 'the chancery' and 'chancery pavilion'! :)
anyway, we reached the venue and after a very brief security check, we registered. the folks at the registration desks were very friendly and dealt with a brisk pace - as a result keeping the queue short. we were given the basic welcome kits with material for the event [and some raddi / promotional material from the sponsors :)].
scheduled @ 930 was a session by one of the 'platinum' sponsors - microsoft (yes, you can gasp @ microsoft coming for an open source event + paying for its presence there!!).. sharp @ 930 the compere took to the mic.. and this i must write about.. i, for one, really admire elocutionary skills and the compere for the summit had an absolutely b-r-i-l-l-i-a-n-t voice!! she started off with a cheeky idea to make people switch off/silent their cell phones and then went on to introduce the event, sponsors, organizers.. she soon finished her speech [:( :(] and on came microsoft talking about interoperability and how they are really working in the open source community since 2004. his speech was more of a 'sachhi-believe-me, we do work for free/others too!'
after this forceful session, we were going to have 3 interesting tracks running in parallel with a large set of workshops/seminars to choose from. so the 5 of us split up and i went to ilya shinkarenko's - plug-in development. this workshop [??] had 9 labs where he gave basic tips and quick tricks on UI principles, basic OSGi, adapters, data-binding, extension-points and then scrammed through presentation & provisioning APIs. honestly this would have been an *amazing* workshop had it been a bit longer and ilya would have had the time needed to cover it all. but you can't blame ilya / organizers as well, since they had just as much time to fit it all in! in the other tracks, folks liked the 'gef & zest workshop' which had the ever-popular [and erstwhile rockstar] malai giving the session! :)
for the second part of the day, i decided to jump between the halls and first went to attend the 'design case study of a complex development tool [soa space] built on gef' - which IMHO was very boring :( i guess it made sense from the speaker's point of view to talk about their company requirements, development challenges, general abstract points about gef; but it didn't tell you anything new really!
i then went for 'eclipse 3.5 pde - target platform story' by ankur sharma. unfortunately for him there were some technical issues on account of which he had initiate a without-mic informal interaction with the crowd to talk about eclipse UI and requirements and complaints and general ranting.. his session was very useful for folks like me who yet weren't on 3.5 and hence, got to know about the useful cool new features in the galileo release of eclipse [i did not use API tooling earlier but thanks to ankur, this has become an inclusive part of all my work now!]..
and yeah in between all this, we had some greaat food [a *MUST* for any good event] and met a lot of interesting folks from the indian eclipse ecosystem! the organizers were always there if you needed some help or information and all the events were dot-on-time! at the end i also saw the traditional long queue for t-shirts [the signature saltmarch all-black-tee!!!].. and with all of this, came day one to an end [at the summit]!
and 'explore bangalore' began [which by-the-way will go in another post that just doesn't have the word *Eclipse* in it! :)]..
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Seriously waiting for a non technical post now :)
And I just posted the first non-technical one [non computers one?] :)
nice one dude.......
just amazed to see your power to convert visuals into words. I could now remember almost all from day ONE. :-)
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