WHAT THE DELEGATES SAID
FOLKS, this is by all means the best event that I have attended in my professional life as a software developer. The entire program was crafted in a way that provided me with opportunities to move about from in depth workshops to less intensive focused sessions. I had a very fulfilling experience at the summit and look forward in eanest to attend the next edition. I heard from Saltmarch, the organizers that they will run this as an annual feature. So bring it on in July 2010 if not earlier.
I pushed my boss to sign me up for this event as I wanted to meet with the Indian Eclipse community, and understand their pulse, besides of course learning all the cool and new stuff that was on offer...Overheard at the summit: 'SAP is displacing IBM as the Champion for Eclipse', 'Microsoft’s Support for Eclipse Is not a Surprise', and 'Eclipse is one of the most decent Open Source Communities'.
In the week when a total solar eclipse of the longest duration in 21st century held special interest for scientists and general public as its path of totality passed through thickly populated western, central, eastern and northeastern regions of India, Bangalore in South India was witness to an Eclipse summit of a different kind. Over 400 Eclipse users, enthusiasts and professionals, gathered at the Chancery Pavilion July 17-18 to learn and celebrate the success of an ecosystem that was benefiting from quick time-to-market and standardized user experiences by building their tools using Eclipse technology.
Salt March Media and ANCIT consulting had done a great job by organzing such a mega event successfully. As the eclipse community grows in India, the credit definitely goes to organizations like these, who think about the future and act. As I had mentioned in my previous blogs, open source is not a charity always; many businesses thrive on the open source model; but as open source projects 'gets' the revenue, it 'gives' back to the community; its a win-win situation.
Really a great event. Kudos to Speakers and organizers. I was thrilled to be a part of the day. The event was well focused and was on time without any delay, inspite of many workshops and sessions. What a busy day! A very nicely organized event with lot of hot discussions and workshops, I thoroughly enjoyed the day. Yesterdays sessions were also brilliant. I could see lot more enthusiastic audience today also like the previous day. The help desk was really helpful. I thoroughly enjoyed lunch, over some hot topics on BIRT and DB2...Look forward to such inspiring events.
I was eager to attend this summit as soon as it was announced. A summit in this area was being conducted for the first time in India and I was probably fortunate enough to be in the same town where this was being conducted...I was initially bothered about the summit starting very early in the morning (I know 8 a.m. is not early for many, but for me, I had to drive 20+ kms before I reach the location). At the end of it, there is no regret. It was a good summit, two days well spent!
Dull? could the climate be outside but inside Chancery Pavilion. Eclipse was no longer dull, slow, nerdy application anymore - top companies eyeing for the Eclipse developer, it was showtime! Time management was great...Solar or lunar, Eclipse is often considered unholy in India - but somehow I see a diamond ring :-)
I was very eager to attend this summit this time. So even after getting rid of some personal problems, managed to reach bangalore by flight on 16th night or you can say 17th morning (1 am)...I reached on time, registration was easy, and environment fascinated me for coming hours of technical sessions, and great speakers. I was surprised by...what Microsft is doing with Eclipse. Good Show MS...[The session on] patterns in Eclipse was particularly good, and really appreciable. I didn't know that apart from doing ctrl+c, ctrl+v, we can do a lots of things on eclipse, and how it can be done efficiently.Shaun Smith to put light on JSR 317 Java Persistence 2.0 and his session aroused some interest in me to learn more about it...
I am here at the Chancery Pavilion attending the Eclipse India Summit 2009 organised by Saltmarch...Thanks to Saltmarch Media for arranging the wonderful summit.I'm sure it'll help the developer community to get more information about the Eclipse-based tools and technologies.
Interesting the two main competitors give the keynotes one after the other...Today I am eagerly looking forward to attend BIRT workshop in the morning followed by a sumptuous lunch and then another workshop on OSGI...
To tell about EIS you just say simply EIS Rocks. Full of Eclipse presentations. Ilya Shinkarenko's workshop wow what a seminar man person who doesn’t know anything will fell like start developing application using RCP application he was so clear in his teaching. There werre also other speakers like Chetan who really won the heart of every audience who attended session, and motivated the audience with their speech delivery. Saltmarch organizers are very helpful they kept on guiding audience.
Eclipse [the non astronomy one]...forceful session, ilya shinkarenko's - plug-in development...in the other tracks, folks liked the GEF & Zest workshop, Eclipse 3.5 PDE, galileo release of eclipse...and yeah in between all this, we had some greaat food [a *MUST* for any good event] and met a lot of interesting folks from the indian eclipse ecosystem! The organizers [Saltmarch Media] were always there if you needed some help or information and all the events were dot-on-time!...we bid adieu to two-days-of-really-well-organized-knowledge-sessions! Considering that the Eclipse community is pretty niche in India as yet and there is comparatively lesser buzz around the same, Saltmarch and Ancit did a pretty neat job of making things interesting and insightful.
When i just entered the venue...I was astonished to see Microsoft as one of the Platinum Sponsors the Event, the attendance for the event was around 400. Such a large gathering of Eclipse enthusiasts...Wow! The second day I went to attend the summit with the assumption that there would be less attendance when compared to day one, as the day happens to be Saturday + it was raining. I was proved wrong, the ballroom was totally filled up.