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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
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Greetings from Norway!
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:Description:
    Today was the first day of the eZ publish conference here in Skien,
    Norway, where the eZ systems headquarter is located. Before today we had 3
    days of eZ crew activities, since the complete eZ systems team from over
    the world is currently in Norway.

Today was the first day of the `eZ publish conference`__ here in Skien,
Norway, where the `eZ systems`__ headquarter is located. Before today we had 3
days of `eZ crew`__ activities, since the complete eZ systems team from over
the world is currently in Norway.

.. __: http://ez.no/company/events/ez_publish_conference_2006
.. __: http://ez.no
.. __: http://ez.no/company/ez_crew

But before I start with my little roundup, I'd like to announce some stuff
that we (eZ) presented during this conference:

1. **The eZ publish online editor (a WYSIWYG web interface) changed it's
   license. From now on, it is not commercial any more, but released under the
   GPL and will be shipped with the next eZ publish release.**

2. **We are starting to develop the "eZ platform", which is an enterprise
   level platform for PHP development and will be the basis for a future eZ
   publish release. eZ platform will consist of the eZ application server,
   which is based on the eZ components. eZ publish will be build on top of
   that.**

But now, let's talk about some social stuff. ;)

On Monday (where we left Dortmund at 2:00 and I did not sleep before that), we
arrived in Skien around 11:00, had lunch all together and I went to bed
afterwards. That night we spent with pizza and beer at the "eZ bar" (the
office).

On Tuesday morning we splitted up into task related groups (developers and
management) and had some internal education talks, e.g. `Derick`__ about the
usage of `Xdebug`__. After lunch we went to a "wild-life"park, where we took
some team-building activities. This was amazingly great and lasted from clay
pigeon shooting over climbing to canu driving. Absolutly cool and much fun.
After that, we went for some "wild-life" dinner (deer).

.. __: http://derick-rethans.nl
.. __: http://xdebug.org

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.. |image_1| image:: http://static.flickr.com/53/171815061_eb0fe7aa51.jpg?v=0
   :target: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastian_bergmann/sets/72157594172659137/

Wednesday was the eZ partner day, which already belonged to the eZ publish
conference. The development teams seized the chance for a discussion phase. We
(the eZ components team) planned the upcoming components release 2006.2
(formally known as 1.2), which will probably include a lot of cool new
components and features. For example eZ Feed (for reading and writing Atom/RSS
feeds), eZ Graph (for rendering charts) and many more.

Today was finally the first day of the official part of the eZ conference.
After Derick gave `an overview on the current status`__ of our `enterprise PHP
library`__, the eZ components, I continued with a `2 hours entrance
workshop`__. The number of attendees was really large and everyone seemed to
be quite amazed. At least, that was what they told me. A nice quote I heard
from someone was "this is the cleanest piece of PHP code I've ever seen",
which does not really sound bad, does it? Later today we will have the eZ
Awards dinner, which also sounds quite promising.

.. __: http://ez.no/company/events/ez_publish_conference_2006/ez_components_intro_state
.. __: http://ez.no/products/ez_components
.. __: http://ez.no/company/events/ez_publish_conference_2006/ez_components_workshop

Finally, tomorrow, Kore and me will leave Skien again around 10:00 to catch
our plane at 13:00 in Oslo Torp. I expect to be home around 19:00 then, where
I'm pretty much looking forward to see my sweet girl friend Carmen again.
Sadly only until Saturday morning, around 7:00, when we again leave direction
Bonn, for the `FrOSCon`__.

.. __: http://froscon.phpugdo.de/

Anyway, another great evening here in Norway is waiting. Stay tuned.


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Trackbacks
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- FrOSCon starting tomorrow! on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 20:03:16 +0200 in Tobias Schlitt - a passion for php
  
  I'm just back from the eZ publish conference in Skien, Norway, (see my first
  roundup here) and will directly start through to the first Free and Open
  Source Conference in Bonn. As already announced, we (the PHP usergroup
  Dortmund) organized a professional


Comments
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- Vjeran at Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:35:15 +0200

  Thanks for the report :)