On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 10:35:16PM +0100, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
> >Would be great if you posted pictures of the event with some notes of
> >the discussions that took place.
> >
> >I know I'm a pain in the ass, but you know, I think it would be fair for
> >those (me!) who, for a reason or another, can never make it to Frankfurt :)
>
> Sure :) I didn't take any photos but Michael Hartle organised a
> camera, as had others, so once they're ready I'm sure're they'll be
> made available somewhere.
I think there must be some great photos of Nicola getting stuck into
tremendous amounts of meat. It seemed like the Italian delegation was
particularly hungry ;)
>
> We had approx. 20 people attend this time which was great (last
> Frankfurt Stammtisch was 6), in the Dominicus Keller which is a
> German style restaurant (lots of meat!).
Dont forget the about the german Beer - Its the required catalyst for any
meaningful Cocoon discussion.
>
> From the 20 we had (at a rough count) 8 committers of various Apache
> projects. The others ranged from long time Cocoon users to people
> completely new to the project. People were from many different
> countries such as England, Italy, Australia, and of course Germany,
> to name a few.
Yes it was great, but I was a little disappointed that the US
contingent didnt make it, Ovidiu - where are you ? :-P
>
> There was so much discussion and many different topics I think it was
> hard to keep up with it all :) Topics included:
>
> o Flowscript
> o Blocks
> o Cocoon projects in Europe
> o Cocoon & development environments
> o Avalon
> o Apache project structure
> o Cocoon build environment
> o Cocoon 2.1 release
> o Documentation
> o Gent GetTogether
> o Plus many others
o When/if to move to a new container (other than ECM) in Coocon.
o modules/organs
o Save OnBack with flow/continuations
o Forrest
o Fop
o Many Many Others
>
> After dinner some of us ventured off to the Sandbar for some late
> night cocktails - which powered the discussions till closing at
> 2am! :)
Well, Free Beer at sandbar is good valuei!!! :)
>
> I think we all had a really great time, and it was great to meet
> people face to face again.
It was great to meet people face to face once again, one gains a real sense
of community (and a feel for how international the communtiy infact is).
The exchange of ideas becomes very fluid face to face.
Regards,
Michael Melhem
>
>There was also talk of the next Stammtisch, and even a 'Cocoon World
> Tour' which sounded exciting! :)
>
> Anyone else like to add anything ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marcus
>
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