I’ll be at EclipseCON
March 5th-8^th in Santa Clara, CA. You can meet me for
first hand info about Maven, OSGi, and Eclipse integration, just
leave a comment or ask for me at the SimulaLabs
booth, or look for me near the bar 😉

It’s gonna be a fun trip for me, I’m gonna drive from Los Angeles
up the coastline the weekend before
and down the weekend after, and hopefully drive around San Francisco
and Napa or Sonoma.

See you there!

If you are interested in open source adoption in the enterprise or you happen to have the usual open source rejection in your company, this may be interesting for you and/or your boss, and it’s free (like in free beer).

Due to the popularity of our first session, we’ve added a second date! If you’re evaluating where and how open source technologies can fit into your enterprise IT organization, please join us for Simula Labs’ “Roadmap for Open Source Adoption” seminar. The online seminar will cover topics such as: Open source readiness criteria for enterprise IT adoption Best practices for enterprise IT, including acceptance requirements and pitfalls to avoid with any open source technology acquisition  Description of the OSS development model and an exploration of how enterprise IT organizations can exploit more than just open source projects Join us for “Roadmap for Open Source Adoption” and learn about how to effectively evaluate, implement and manage open source solutions for your IT challenges. Regards, Doug Dennington Director, Sales Simula Labs 310 437 4870 [email protected]

Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2006 Time: 1:00p.m. (Pacific U.S.) Presenter: David Schwartz General Manager Mergere Inc. – a Simula Labs CoRE Network Partner Simula Labs is poised as the only company with a proven, scalable business model designed to enable IT organizations to rapidly and predictably extract value from open source during the software development process. For more information on how Simula Labs can help you bring the innovation of open source to your organization, visit www.simulalabs.com or call 310 437 4870.

I took this quizz for accent, seems that I have a Northeast American accent. Well, I’m from the North of Spaing but from the West, does that count? 😉

I’ve added some more photos from my last trip to Paris and the “Dia de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) in Santa Ana, CA

Last thursday I was flying from Spain to the US, during the terrorist alert. I was lucky as I always fly through London Heathrow, but this time I did through Philadelphia. In Madrid just a bit of extra security, at that time the news were only that a plot had been discovered in the UK and most flights to London were cancelled. In Philadelphia they didn’t tell us anything about the restriction on liquids after we checked in the baggage, and as I was carrying some goods I had bought in the dutty free shop I had to go out of the terminal to another one and check it in in my laptop case (as they don’t allow small packages), and take the laptop and all the valuable stuff by hand.

After that we had to wait more than an hour inside the plane waiting for people and cargo from connecting flights, and then more than another hour in line on the runway to take off. The most annoying part was that in that 2.5 hours we were told every 5 minutes “we’re about to leave, just a couple of minutes”, even at the end when we were like 5th to take off, and after 15 min the pilot came back and said “don’t ask me why but we are still 5th” after a bunch of planes took off, lol.

One of the more well know things about Spain in the rest of the world is the running of the bulls in Pamplona which is happening during these days. Too bad that people without training or drunk, foreigners mostly, get every year badly injured or dead.

Definitely something you must check out once in your live.

Volví esta semana a Coruña, después de bastante tiempo fuera de España. Las cosas no parecen haber cambiado demasiado, un poco de fresquillo después de los días calurosos que me contaron del fin de semana.

Aparte de eso, me he dado cuenta de que conozco más gente en este negocio (informática, open source, java,…) fuera de España que aquí, lo que es un poco triste. No hay demasiada innovación, yo diría que un montón de política en el medio en vez de razones técnicas. También hay gente que cree que pueden hacer las cosas mejor e intentan inventar la rueda.

Algunas de las cosas que leo en español son

• Javahispano, con las noticias en el mundo Java. Por desgracia creo que un gran porcentaje son simplemente traducciones de noticias que se pueden encontrar antes en inglés, con lo que pierden bastante interés. Si tuviera más tiempo me gustaría echarles una mano, por lo menos de las noticias sobre Maven me entero rápido .
• Rogelio Bernal de eListas, eGrupos y ZoomBlog. Otro que se ha tenido que ir a hacer las Américas y vive en el Silicon Valley. Parece un tío majo que se lo curró, tenía que haberle hecho una visita cuando estuve por allí. La próxima vez será.
• Eduardo Pelegri de Sun y su Acuario sobre Glassfish. También por el Silicon Valley. Lo conocí en persona en JavaOne y está intentando posicionar Glassfish como una alternativa a los otros servidores de aplicaciones open source y creo que va en muy buen camino.
• Martin Varsavsky, fundador de Jazztel, Ya.com, y ahora con FON. Al principio interesante para ver cómo estuvo formando la empresa, consiguiendo capital, partners, etc. cada vez se hace más aburrido porque te suelta el rollo publicitario FON en cada entrada. Y que si mi avión privado por aquí, que si mi cena con Clinton por allá,…

Otro día con más tiempo pondré algunos más.

I’m pretty sure everybody knows who Juan Valdez is, the character that represents the cafeteros from Colombia.

What I didn’t know was that his real name is Carlos Sanchez ;), something I found out while reading that he’s about to retire. What a coincidence! I’m sure the jokes around me will last some time.

Tomorrow I’ll fly to San Francisco and I’ll be around for the next week, going to JavaOne and parties (mostly the latest) and meeting people from the mailing lists and different OS projects in person.

If you wanna meet me memorize my picture at the upper right corner of this weblog ;). If it’s not enough don’t be shy and drop me an email or ask for me at the Mergere booth.

Just to let you know that I have disabled the jroller comments and added links to haloscan, another way to write comments, because I always had problems not being emailed new comments and a lot of spam.

Old comments are still available through the permalinks.

UPDATE: I finally got a way to see the comments in roller, waiting for the send email when new comments are added feature works

From now on I’ll merge my two blogs, this and the other one in spanish about my personal adventures. So if you see something in spanish don’t get scared!