Frits Hoogland Weblog

(Yet Another Blog On Openworld)

The days and hours are passing fast…extremely fast. Yesterday was terrific meeting so much big names (Anjo Kolk, Mogens Norgaard, Cary Millsap, Doug Burns, Jeremiah Wilton, Jared Still, Carol Dacko, Kyle Hailey, Tuomas Pystynen, Graham Wood and his beautiful girlfriend) having a nice cocktail party organised by oracle benelux in the city near union square (rollerskating fluorescent ladies among the oracle crowd) and going to a miracle party at the harbour near the bridge….terrific!

And now sitting blogging next to tomas kyte…it’s all much, very much. It makes me feel humble, very humble.

And the floor of the moscone west oracle technology lounge is vibrating. It’s no hangover, it’s really vibrating. I don’t know if it’s the construction or the san andreas fault (did I spell that right?)

Yes, yet another blog about openworld.

It’s my first openworld, even the first time in san francisco. It’s all…impressive. Probably everything is big in the US. Even the weather is nice and warm this late of year (actually I don’t know if that is normal during this time of year here).

Crowds…crowds everywhere, even when walking through the city, there are swarms of people with the various oracle passes. The passes are roughly the same, but have different colours for normal attendees, guests, participants, oracle employees, etc. Additional, there are extra tags that are added for specific things, like being a speaker (yes, I’ve got an extra tag added). Some people managed to get up to three tags added to their pass.

Also monstrous number of sessions, sometimes more than 90 sessions parallel… It’s not something I’ve seen ever.

I am anxious for my session on thursday 9:00 am… It’s the day after the appreciation event.