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06 April, 2012

Red Hat Open House 2012

I was looking forward to date April 5th for quite some time. Red Hat scheduled its Open House for this date.
Event itself was pretty similar, by means of organisation, to previous years. There were lots of presentations related to Open Source, linux and Red Hat of course. Unfortunately I attended only two of them -- Deltacloud and Gnome Shell. The first one was really interesting: talking about cloud technology, cloud API and the product itself, which is API between cloud provider and customer's application.
I was pretty disappointed about Gnome Shell presentation. I expected some advanced information about this "controversial" UI, but presentation itself was based on some well known facts. On the other hand I can imagine that if other viewers wasn't familiar with this shell, they could enjoy the presentation. Presenter showed some really good extensions at least, which I installed immediately after I arrived home, so I have to thank him that my Fedora is more usable now.
I attended Bug Hunt contest for the first time. I have been avoiding it for all these years (because I wasn't good at any scripting language or C/++ at that times) and this time, I just couldn't resist, since I started learning Python. Contest was organised very well. It really impressed me -- but should I wonder? It is Red Hat. The thing which impressed me even more, was that I ended on second place. I earned it just by correcting some python sources and finding some bugs in provided, "bugfull" program.
That's it. This was Red Hat Open House 2012 from my point of view.
Wait.
But there's more!
View from the top of the building was perfect. Chilly breeze was just the thing what I needed. Also buffet was full of tasty yummies, just like every year. I attended server room, which fascinates me more and more every year. Guys answered all of our questions. That gave me really good feeling, how nice and chatty these guys were.
I would like to thank Red Hat for this spectacular event -- awesome as always.