While I can be credited for the out of the box thinking of picking up Italy, I have to confess Pete did all organizing. So kudos to Pete and Shane! -- Emmanuel Bernard http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Emmanuel | http://blog.emmanuelbernard.com | http://twitter.com/emmanuelbernard Hibernate Search in Action (http://is.gd/Dl1) On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:02, Gavin King wrote: > Huge thanks to Pete and Emmanuel for organizing everything, and > especially to Shane for the excellent cooking (wow!) > > It was great to see everyone again / meet people for the first > time :-) > > Let's do it again next year! > > -- > Gavin King > gavin.king(a)gmail.com > http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Gavin > http://hibernate.org > http://seamframework.org > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev

Yes, I am slightly worried that Shane will decide to up sticks and become a chef ;-)

Here are a few: http://picasaweb.google.com/hotmana76/Tuscany2008?authkey=eWryv7QnkSg http://picasaweb.google.com/Samuel.Mendenhall/Italy_July_2008 http://picasaweb.google.com/cbredesen/JBossTuscany2008?authkey=OIe6flEtuJk On 28 Jul 2008, at 16:34, Dan Allen wrote: I would like to express my sincere thanks to JBoss for extending me > the opportunity to participate in the Seam/Hibernate meeting in Italy, > to Pete for organizing such a stellar trip, and to Shane for treating > us to his culinary mastery. I appreciate that these meetings are both > expensive and time consuming to arrange, but the interaction that > occurs is, as they say, "priceless". It was great meeting everyone and > I look forward to continue producing industry-changing software with > you all in the future. > > I never got a chance to tell Gavin directly, but hopefully it was > overheard that I think WebBeans is simply brilliant. This spec could > single-handily change the quality of Java EE. I am also extremely > thrilled about Christian's REST module. > > Cheers! > > -Dan > > p.s. Please make your pictures available. I didn't get as many as I had > hoped. > > -- > Dan Allen > Software consultant | Author of Seam in Action > > http://mojavelinux.com > http://mojavelinux.com/seaminaction > > NOTE: While I make a strong effort to keep up with my email on a daily > basis, life and work come first and, at times, keep me away from my mail > for a while. If you contact me, then don't hear back for more than a week, > it is very likely that I am excessively backlogged or the message was > caught in the spam filters. Please don't hesitate to resend a message if > you feel that it did not reach my attention. > _______________________________________________ > seam-dev mailing list > seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev > _______________________________________________ seam-dev mailing list seam-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/seam-dev

Huge thanks to Pete and Emmanuel for organizing everything, and especially to Shane for the excellent cooking (wow!) It was great to see everyone again / meet people for the first time :-) Let's do it again next year!