Donnerstag, 15. Mai 2003

Winding down: Last day at Jax and this looks like being a slow day. We are not doing any presentations but there are a couple of interesting ones to go and see. Christian Gross is doing Lucene and Massimo is doing a presentation on Avalon. Massimo has the last slot of the day - as we did last year. Carsten and I will be going and hopefully all the others haven't left by then :-). Pier's presentation on "The Apache Way" (my title) was good. Very good. In fact it was a natural follow on from my penguin talk. He showed the origins of Apache and talked a lot about community driven development. I like that. He also explained the origins of the "jakarta" name - which is a story in itself (back in 1998 (?) the Apache guys met with Sun in a meeting room in a building called "Jakarta"). Has the story been published somewhere already (send me a link if you know)? Great to also meet Pier in person too.