The ApacheCon EU 2009 (Amsterdam, Netherlands) came to an end today evening. We had a BarCamp on 23rd followed by a Hackathon on 24th. The conference commenced on 25th and continued until today evening. We had two keynotes and around 64 technical presentations during the last three days. I was fortunate enough to take part in the following presentations.
Out of the two keynotes, I really enjoyed the keynote on 'open sourcing the analyst business' by James Governor. It was a real blast!
In addition to all the technical knowledge I gathered during the conference I also made quite a lot of new friends. I met some very interesting people working at various levels and projects of the ASF. All in all it was a very successful ApacheCon, not just to me but to everybody that participated. (I have a lot more to mention but unfortunately I have to cut it short. I have lot of packing left to do before I start the return journey tomorrow morning.)
- Embrace OSGi (by Carsten Ziegeler, member of ASF)
- Tales from OSGi trenches (by Bertrand Delacretaz, member of ASF)
- OSGi as a framework for building a product line (by Ruwan Linton and Afkham Azeez, WSO2)
- HBasics: Hadoop's big database (by Michael Stack, Microsoft)
- Apache license as a business model (by Paul Fremantle, WSO2)
- Clustered Web services for high availability and scalability (by Ruwan Linton, WSO2)
- EDA with Apache Synapse (by Paul Fremantle, WSO2)
- Performance tuning Apache Tomcat (by Filip Hanik, SpringSource)
- How to become a project at ASF (by Martijn Dashorst)
- Introduction to NIO 2.0 (by Jeanfrancois Arcand)
- Using MINA 2.0 (by Emmanuel Lecharmy, IKTEK)
- Becoming a Tomcat super user (by mark Thomas, SpringSource)
- High availability != High cost (by Norman Maurer, HEAG MediaNet)
- Apache POI (by Nick Burch, Torchbox)
- Enterprise build & test in the cloud (Carlos Sanchez, G2iX)
- Shindig for blogs and wikis (Dave Johnson, VP Apache Roller)
Out of the two keynotes, I really enjoyed the keynote on 'open sourcing the analyst business' by James Governor. It was a real blast!
In addition to all the technical knowledge I gathered during the conference I also made quite a lot of new friends. I met some very interesting people working at various levels and projects of the ASF. All in all it was a very successful ApacheCon, not just to me but to everybody that participated. (I have a lot more to mention but unfortunately I have to cut it short. I have lot of packing left to do before I start the return journey tomorrow morning.)
