ApacheCon Europe 2009

Shane Curcuru: Last chance - we're closing the survey shortly! We hope to see everyone at ApacheCon US 2009 in Oakland this November - plans are coming along great with amazing participation by PMCs from many projects in the Foundation. Plus, we'll be having an even bigger birthday celebration for the ASF's 10th birthday - much bigger.

Senaka Fernando: A good talk and a great demo I must say. This was a little bit tough to comprehend initially but I guess Felix made things really simple to understand at the end of the talk. I strongly believe I made the right choice by volunteering to chair this session. I really benefited a lot by taking part in this talk.

Senaka Fernando: I must say that Martijn did an awesome job here. I as a person who didn't know about wicket at all learned a lot about how it can be used and how easy it is when compared to other server side scripting languages. One question though. I like to know about the folder structure of the java classes and the folder structure of the HTML pages. Are they the same? or are they not? and, if they are the same, how would a typical set of URLs like ( I want to know whether the folder hierarchy of the classes affects the URLs of web pages)?

Senaka Fernando: This talk began with Edwin speaking his experience with Solr and then Uri elaborating on his experience during the latter half. This was one session that had a many questions asked, and nevertheless those were really good and interesting ones. I enjoyed this session a great deal, and I believe that the audience too did, judging by their questions and responses.

Senaka Fernando: Thorsten spoke of a real world project which he made use of four great Apache projects. He started simple and explained how each project fitted in. This was an awesome session for many reasons, one being that its always good to know about a project, but most importantly it is really important to understand how it fits in within an ecosystem of projects that work together. Another reason was that this talk also demonstrated how Apache Droids fits in the real world (which I was anxious to learn during this ApacheCon).

Senaka Fernando: This was a very interesting session indeed. The demo was awesome and I really loved it. I was so anxious to try out this demo on my own after I took part in this session. Even though this was a live demo (and a really long live demo), Andreas didn't run into any issues. That was simply superb I must say.

Eric Wout van der Steen: The talk showed that you can do cool stuff with these projects, but what delivers what, didn't become clear to me. I missed an overview or a red line.

Vidar Skauge Ramdal: Reverse-engineering binary Microsoft Office documents ... would believe that would make you cry yourself to sleep every night. Interesting overview of the capabilities in POI. Gave me some ideas.

Eric Wout van der Steen: Very true :D As a reminder, check out DITA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Information_Typing_Architecture ;)

Vidar Skauge Ramdal: You know it has been a good presentation, when the discussion among the listeners continues well into the lobby after the session.

Senaka Fernando: This session had good participation, including many folks who got TAC. The pony that came on the slides every now and then was very cute and the easy to understand examples on slides made the learning process much easier. Improvement: The presentation got stuck few times (prob with the app that ran the presentation). Working out a alternative approach would've been better in such a situation. Nick's presentation skills were very good, and he covered up well when the presentation was getting stuck. This is something that I learned - to remain calm and overcome the situation.

Senaka Fernando: The subject matter discussed here was pretty well known to me. But, I guess I learned some stuff I never though before. I also did ask a question which is found at [1]. [1] http://tinyurl.com/ostcg4u

Senaka Fernando: This was perhaps the most interesting talk I attended during the day. Bertrand did a good job here with the humor and all (ex:- I also learned that there was a train to Matterhorn in addition to Sling :)..). I chaired this session but got here a bit late as the previous session I chaired ended late (due to some project issues). The animations on the slides seemed to be very nice and made the important portions stand out. I think it was a great idea to have such animation. Improvement (to team that chairs sessions): I guess it'd be great to have a reserve person in addition to the folks who take the responsibility to chair a session as the person who's responsible may fail to be present due to a delay or some other unavoidable circumstance.

Senaka Fernando: This talk was successful despite that we started 15-20mins late due to the projector failing very badly (some flickering issue), and later being replaced. David lost around 5-10mins from this session but I believe that the audience didn't quite feel that we lost something. However, a few slides were skipped due to the loss of time, but I believe that they were the least important ones. However, the entire presentation content will be uploaded and I don't see a loss here. The crowd was less compared to the number at David's previous session and seemed to be people who are very familiar with Geronimo unlike me who did the chairing of the session. Improvement (to Conference Infra Team): I guess we shouldn't rely too much on the capability and reliability of the hotel's (or other location) facilities and should always encourage spare projects etc. Also, it seemed that many mac-books had trouble with the projectors when compared to other laptops. The hotel staff learned from today's problems and there were spare projectors for future sessions.

Senaka Fernando: This talk went very well. I really began to like Geronimo compared to other Java EE implementations. I believe that considerable attention was paid on most crucial UI features which sounds helpful. There was a small disturbance on the projected picture (due to some hotel projector issue) abut the crowd didn't quite feel that as David did a good job with the presentation. The questions too were well answered.

Senaka Fernando: This talk was very well organized and well structured. I learned a fair amount about Mahout, and also believe that the preliminary introduction to machine learning helped us understand where the talk was heading to, and further explore what Mahout is capable of.

Senaka Fernando: This keynote revealed a great deal of cloud computing related stuff and also various efforts from Yahoo. This was very interesting, but a little bit technically oriented when compared to other keynotes.

Simon Metson: I really enjoyed the BarCamp. It was a great way to involve someone who's not "in" the apache circle (yet!). I'm going to try and reuse the format for some of our meetings @ CERN.

Senaka Fernando: I enjoyed BarCamp a great deal. Wish there were more attendees though. It indeed was a good opportunity to share opinions, and get to know new people. Improving BarCamp means getting more people to participate. Too bad if you missed it. Regards, Senaka

Chad Davis: Seems like it should be a bit more conversational somehow . . . maybe ask everyone to write topics they are interested in and aggregate panel or roundtable discussions from that. Great idea in general though, participant chosen conversations.

Wendy Smoak: Slides are available on the ApacheCon website: http://www.eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/sessions/170 http://www.eu.apachecon.com/presentation/materials/298/Continuum-ApacheConEU09.pdf

Hiranya Jayathilaka: Excellent demonstration. Very practical and helpful to all developers.

Afkham Azeez: Very well presented and the content & delivery was superb. The concepts can also adopted to tuning other Java products.

Hiranya Jayathilaka: Really good presentation. Helpful to developers and system admins alike.

Hiranya Jayathilaka: Really helpful in understanding OSGi in user perspective. Excellent piece.

Hiranya Jayathilaka: Really helped to understand the basics of OSGi. Well done.

Petar Tahchiev: I really liked this presentation. It was very focused and presented Archiva in a thorough way. Here are some recommendations: - Next time leave a little bit more time for the demo. Currently I think you had to rush the demo at the end. - Another thing you could think of is make the whole presentation as a demo. For instance you could start by downloading Archiva from the web, installing it in the background and configuring it all throughout the presentation. At the time of configuring it you could go and explain what the different tabs and sections mean. Once again - great presentation! 5 stars from me.

Hiranya Jayathilaka: Just fantastic.

Steve Loughran: takes a long time to get to a point that I don't understand. But presents its well.

Hiranya Jayathilaka: Great presentation Paul, as always :)

Adrian: Really enjoyed this presentation, and the interaction from the crowd. Lead to some lively discussion on giving real value to customers.

Lars Eilebrecht: Please note that the "Pragmatic Models" talk from Paul Fremantle has been replaced with J. Chris Anderson's CouchDB talk.