Last week we had the good fortune of having a Hibernate and Seam team meeting.
Despite of the following pictures, the week was really productive and we got all to meet up and put faces to new and old people. I also got a bunch of working pictures but they are boring ;)
The topics of discussions were broad but mostly about road map's and action items for Seam and Hibernate, WebBeans and related tooling. You will start seeing the results of these talks on the forums and in upcoming release in the near future.
Now onto the fun part...
The actual meeting were in Tuscany, Italy near a city named Chiusi.
We rented a farmhouse which had a great view over a sunflower field.
And it had a great pool too.
I unfortunately could not get to Tuscany before Wednesday so I missed out on the Hibernate meeting, so I only managed to get a few shots of the Seam meetings.
We got all the Seam related JBoss employees there, but we had also invited a couple of external contributors.
One of those who made it despite being in the middle of most holidays were Dan Allen:
Apparently Dan is a professional diver, but that did not stop Rich Sharples:
nor Jay Balunas:
Nothing like taking a swim after having discussed tech!
Dinner were mostly done by Shane, The Australian Chef and Seam security Wizard in beginning of the week; but because of my late arrival I missed out on it and only
attended a Shane breakfast:
And i'm sure Gavin, Jay, Norman, Emmanuel, Marek, Christian, Steve, Rich, Ales, Samuel, Rodney, Hardy, Gail, Chris, Anthony and Dan all would like to say thanks to Shane for the great food and just as big a thanks to Pete for doing all the arrangements - it was definitely the best location ever for a team meet up I've been at.
Now back to work...
Yeah, Tuscany is a really a sweet pleace to spend some time in this period..
People, next time let italian cummunity informed, so we could suggest cool place to visit!
-- Paolo
Man, I am so jealous. I really wish we could do the same in out team. I am sure you had a good and productive time - meeting face to face already helps a lot.
Hi Paolo, sorry for not being loud enough about us going there - we will remember to do that the next time!
--max
Certainly a lot nicer than the hotel the Drools steam are having their meeting in :( My Link
I should also point out that we had some very interesting discussions on Bean Validation, JSF 2.0 and how to use the former in the later. If we manage to do all that we have planned, this will look very neat :)
It is just a matter of planning and imitating the Portal team which were the first to realize that if you look around touristy places you can find really cheap houses to rent instead of using cheap but still expensive in comparison hotels.
--max
And something for NH team ? :(
Max gives me way to much credit. I was a diver in college. Now I am just an out of shape author trying to strain himself for a moment of glory.
I'm a true believer in face-to-face communication and in that regard, just being in the same room as the developers helps to steer the future of the project. I am immensely grateful for being invited on this trip and hope that my opinions, as opinionated as they are, proved useful.
I can honestly say that while Seam has matured tremendously in the last couple of years, there is still great innovations in its future.
Great life:) But,where's Gavin?What is he doing now?
He is actually at the breakfast table, but you can only see his hand holding a fork - sorry, but I don't have other publically ok pictures from the trip and pictures of him working on webbeans spec is boring ;)
/max
--max