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Ayer, por una de esas cosas del destino (y de Marcela Tiznado aka “ASCIIGirl”, que casi siempre tiene que ver con esas cosas), termine cenando con un grupo de gente de Sun que vino a dar charlas a Latinoamerica.
Mas alla de que, claramente no soy fanático de Java, fue una cena muy divertida e informativa. Estaban todos muy centrados alrededor del open source, y cada uno hace grandes esfuerzos en su area para que los programas sean libres.
Varios de ellos trabajan sobre OpenSolaris, que, según aprendi, esta bastante sub-valuado como sistema operativo.
Nos contaron de que hablaba cada uno, y la verdad que es una lastima haberme perdido las charlas. Aparentemente, a la persona que lo organizo no le salio muy bien la parte de la “difusión”.

Como no podía faltar, hay una foto:

De izquierda a derecha, Marcela Tiznado, Alvaro Lopez Ortega, Mauricio Leal, (no me acuerdo el nombre, pero programa Fortran, que es dificil de olvidar), Tim Boudreau, Bruno Souza y yo.

Para los que estan en Cordoba, les dejo las charlas que van a dar:

**Viernes 9 de Noviembre 9hs
Universidad Siglo 21 (Ituzaingó 484 - Cordoba)

NetBeans and Java Talks

. Open Source at Sun
. Java: what is and introduction of concepts
. Overview of NetBeans
. JavaEE Database development with JPA
. Web and JavaEE Development
. Performance tuning for Java EE
. The NetBeans Platform
. The Java and NetBeans Communities

Speakers:

Tim Boudreau had his first startup when he was 13, and has been hooked
since, with brief departures to play rock and roll, write and play music
and do graphics and photography. He is the coauthor of NetBeans, the
Definitive Guide from O’Reilly and Associates. Tim was part of the team
that open sourced NetBeans,
Sun Microsystems’ Java(tm) development environment, and currently work
as a developer on that project. Originally from Massachusetts, he lives
in his adopted home city, Prague, Czech Republic.

Bruno Souza is the number one Java Evangelist in Brazil, responsible for
hundreds of Java presentations throughout the country and internationally.
As a Java consultant, Bruno participated in some of the largest Java
projects in Brazil. As founder and coordinator of SouJava (the Java
Users Society) Brazil’s most important Java User Group, and one of the
largest worldwide, and also working with many other JUGs, Bruno helped
drive the growth of the Brazilian Java community.

** Viernes 9 de Noviembre 16hs
UTN regional Cordoba

OpenSolaris Talks

. Open Source at Sun
. What is OpenSolaris
. Installing, Building and Deploying OpenSolaris
. Explore the Source with OpenGrok
. DTrace and Web 2.0
. Building High Performance Applications on Multicore Systems
. Performance Tuning with Sun Studio Analyzer, Race Detection Tools,
DTrace (D-Lite)
. OpenSolaris for Linux users, a brief explanation
. The OpenSolaris Community

Speakers:

Alvaro Lopez Ortega is a software engineer specializing in artificial
intelligence. He is GNU developer, author of the Cherokee web server
and the GNU Macchanger tool. He has been a Free Software activist
since 1996, when he started contributing as a developer and speaker in
Open Source related events.

Currently he works at Sun Microsystems as a Solaris Express Technical
Lead. He has also worked with GNOME and OpenSolaris in the Desktop
Team for three years and as a Open Technologies evangelist at
conferences such us The Open Source World Conference, The World Forum of
Free Knowledge, and the national Open Source congresses of Spain,
Mexico, Peru and Bolivia.