Wow, that was awesome, thanks Ashish for this nice summary. Best regards, Pranay Pandey
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 6:35 PM Ashish Vijaywargiya < ashish.vijaywarg...@hotwaxsystems.com> wrote: > Dear All, > > I am writing this email to share the update about Apachecon 2019 which was > organized in Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada USA(September 09 - 12, > 2019). This was my second chance to attend Apachecon conference. Last time > I attended it in New Orleans in the year 2008. Attending the 20th > anniversary of ASF was one of the best experiences of my life and also > there were so many learnings for me as an individual. > > 1) Flamingo Hotel and the arrangements within the hotel was very nice. > Breakfast, Lunch was also very good and the coffee, beverages were > available all the time. > > 2) Meeting the community members who are engaged in Apache OFBiz project > like Sharan, Nicola and my other colleague from HotWax Systems like Mike, > Ben, Desiree, Patrick, Jacopo, Anil, Divesh, Swapnil, Mridul and Deepak was > a very nice experience. > > 3) Sharan has organized an evening get together with some OFBiz folks and > guys from other great ASF projects: we had a pleasant time having some > drinks and sharing our impressions about the conference, plans and > memories! The other guys who joined were Paul King(PMC Chair of Groovy, One > of the founder of Groovy language and the author of the book Groovy in > Action), Lars Eilebrecht(One of the founders of HTTP project), Claude > Warren(ASF Member and associated with Apache Jena project), Chris > Dutz(Member on Plc4x project and also tac PMC member) and Justin Mclean(PMC > Chair of Mynewt and PMC of server other projects and expert of IoT). You > feel so great when you meet the core members of any of the open-source > project who are the driving force for it. > > 4) Meeting with James Gosling is the dream come true situation for an > individual. Deepak got a chance to meet with James Gosling and he couldn't > stop himself to take a selfie with James. Please see Deepak's pic with > James Gosling here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/ExLABw > > 5) There were three sessions organized from Apache OFBiz panel and all the > sessions were a very informative one. Those sessions were: > 5a) Apache OFBiz in the Cloud(s) by Deepak Dixit > 5b) OFBiz in the fashion industry, an omnichannel approach by Nicola > Mazzoni. > 5c) The ASF and OFBiz - How Community Makes It All Possible by Mike Bates. > > More details about these presentations are available here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/nxWrBw > > We have also taken a few photographs from the conference and those > photographs are shared here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/x/ExLABw > > I was reading the quote for Las Vegas and all the quotes present on this > link are true and we could feel it when we were in Vegas. :-) > Here they are: https://www.techjunkie.com/las-vegas-captions/ > > I would like to pass on my thanks to ASF for organizing such a nice event > each year and this 20th year anniversary was an amazing one. The organizing > committee members managed to plan such a nice and big event from the remote > locations. And as a participant, you would be amazed to see such a nice > arrangement. All the sessions were running very smoothly, you can go and > attend any of the sessions. The session details present on the mobile app > was very friendly. Keynote sessions in the big hall were the amazing one. > Such a nice events give the opportunity to all the participants to meet > with each other and plan something meaningful in the open-source world. > > Thanks so much to everyone for making the open-source world so beautiful. > Together we can create so many amazing and meaningful things for our > community! > > -- > Kind Regards, > Ashish Vijaywargiya > Vice President of Operations > *HotWax Systems* > *Enterprise open source experts* > cell: +91-9893479711 > http://www.hotwaxsystems.com >
