Speaking

One of my proposals has been accepted for the upcoming ApacheCon Europe 2007 conference, so it’s highly probable that I’ll be entertaining people there about “An Architecture of Participation for Open Source”, whatever that means . The conference program is not yet online, so you’ll have to wait until it is before reading the abstract and deciding whether it’s worth attending or not.

It’s nice that this year ApacheCon Europe is in Amsterdam, a city where I’ve recently spent only a few weeks in all . I could have appreciated a less familiar location, but all is not bad: looking at the calendar the timing looks perfect for a family trip, considering that April 29th is a Sunday and May 1st is Labor Day holiday in Italy. We’d just need to take April 30th off from work and be able to spend four days (including Koninginnedag) as tourists. Since every time I’ve been to Amsterdam has been for work, I was never able to visit places like the Rijksmuseum or the Van Gogh Museum, which have the nasty habit of closing down at 6 PM on weekdays.

Coming to a more local event, I’ll be speaking about “Ruby for Java Programmers” at the next Milan Java User Group meeting on Feb 22nd, to be held at our offices. Also in this case, the program doesn’t seem to be online yet, but it’s the same talk I already did at OSCCON 2006, RailsConf Europe 2006 and ApacheCon US 2006. I wonder if I should do it in English, as I probably know it by heart in that language already.