NRW06 a bunch of geeks
Yesterday I was visiting the NRW06 Summit. This was a really awesome event.
The agenda brought a lot of interessting presentations where I really had a hard decision to commit which I going to join. My personally highlights were the presentations about SCRUM and Test Driven Development from Craig Murphy, about Gentoos quality ensurance and last but not least the Rootkit presentation from the MVPs Michael Willers and Frank Solinske.
After getting up in the early morning (at 6:00am) I went to the bus and get to the location at 8:30am. After waiting half an hour we started to signup and I met a colleague moderator from the c-plusplus.de board. In the first minutes I was simply stunning at him because I have never met him before, but saw some pictures, I was unsure but I took the heart and asked him for his name. And he really was it: Andreas Wegemann 
We was visiting the first 2 presentations together since we was interessted at the same. Later we had the lunch together.
At 8:15pm the last presentation was over and a lottery has been started, unfortunately I won nothing, but I have received a bag at the signup so I am happy with it :p Then the organizers Daniel Fisher (aka lennybacon) and Stefan Oetzel announced the party as started. They have received about 50 liters of free beer from a local brewery so almost everybody went to drink one, two or probably many more. I personally don’t like beer so I have bought some coke for myself
At the party I have started to talk to a guy I have just got to know, Sebastian Noack, he’s a real smart 18 year old guy. He showed me something he has programmed in C# which can be run on Mono and .NET. Later we went to the trainstation together and after eating respectively drinking something, we went to our platforms and got into the trains. I hope that I can join the summit next year again.
There you will really find a lot of interessting people.
The Summits Site: http://www.nrw06.de
Regards,
Vinzenz
July 28th, 2006 at 6:07 pm
After all it was a Great Summit
I´ll plan to join next Year agagin. I very easy to talk to an audience like the audience of the NRW´06.
August 1st, 2006 at 12:00 am
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