I’m in Frankfurt already. My plane will leave tomorrow at 10am Frankfurt time. Thus, I should be in the Hyatt in the afternoon.

Update, March 21, 5:30pm local time … I’m there.

Well, that’s what one could say if you look at my Wordle.

A few Ctrl+R unveiled some interesting facts.

I’m sitting in the RT symposium and it’s a nice group. It’s not too crowded. Unfortunately, there weren’t many position papers. I think that’s a bad. Putting together a position paper is not too much work. Everybody attending a symposium should do so.

Anyway, the agenda that Jeff, Martin and Heiko came up with is great. Based on some questions they asked before the symposium they defined topics and also attached time slots to it. At the end, there will be a fishbowl. I don’t know what that is but Jeff’s description sounded interesting.

The crowd is mixed. There are people from many different countries and companies and I heard one guy saying Microsoft. It’s also great to see a lot new faces which actually means that the topic is really attracting new people.

I’ll catch a train to Wiesbaden soon. Unfortunately, I can’t stay for the whole conferences but just tomorrow for our Server-Side Eclipse talks. If you weren’t able to join them at EclipseCon now is your chance agan.

Anyway, I wonder if there is a general place for Eclipse people (committers, contributors, fans) to meet? Something like the EclipseCon table topic but not just at lunch?

So we are done delivering our Server-Side Eclipse tutorial. It went pretty well. We got a few questions so guys were at least listening.

I’m now sitting in one about secure OSGi applications. There will be exercises at the end so it sounds like a lot of fun.

Update: If you are looking for the code and slides of the Server-Side Eclipse tutorial they are all in the CVS of the SSE-Examples project on SourceForge.net. For your convenience here are some direct links.

• Slides Part 1
• Slides Part 2
• Eclipse Team Project Set File