In the last week, the first OXID user group meeting Leipzig took place at the office rooms of our dear partners pixi* Software. As announced, we came together in order to organize things first like topics to talk about within the next half year, how often and where to meet etc. Here are the results: 13 attendees (some of the registered excused as being ill, guests like Dennis from NRW [Read more...]
Holger, one of Leipzig's most empathetic saxophone and keyboarder players, and a good mate of mine is suffering from cancer quite recently. In a spectacular campaign on Facebook, his friends are about to organize a concert on December 8th at the club Anker Leipzig The revenue from the entry fees (8 EUR) will help to pay for the raising costs for his therapy. In the mean time, the concert twists [Read more...]
Due to my last post, you might have noticed that I was on holiday and didn't check my email and neglected my telephone during this time. Furthermore, I didn't configure an automatic email reply given that I am subscribed to various mailing lists that might have been playing ping-pong with my automated answers ;) Now I'm back and thanks everybody for your patience! Today, I'd like to head back [Read more...]
As earlier announced in my blog post on oxid-esales.com, Friday, March 11th, was our first local developer meet-up in Leipzig, Germany. I personally was really surprised to see 16 people attending, including developers from our partners D³ Data Development (Thalheim, Saxony), GN2 netwerk (Coburg, Bavaria), marmalade.de (Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt), dotSource GmbH (Jena, Thuringia) and Ontraq [Read more...]
Some of you might know that, before I came to OXID, I used to work as a Network Operator at the Network Management Center (NMC) of HL komm. HL komm is a local ISP/network carrier that is mostly active in the areas of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Germany. Although I personally don't like their marketing strategy very much (Knut, where did the "Globish" = English HL komm website which we [Read more...]
On November 23th at 7 PM the First Open Source Meeting in Leipzig will take place in the cellar of Cafe SPIZZ. Florian Effenberger from OpenOffice.org Deutschland e.V. and Carsten Book from Mozilla Corporation will attend and speak about their projects. This evening will be held in a similar style to Webmondays. Many thousand programmers in the world code free software in their spare time or [Read more...]
On November, 14th, The Scuttles will perform again in Anker Leipzig. As Seb is really set on fire about that band we have go there. Seb seems to to be really addicted to Dire Straits tbo. No day that I don't hear "Sultans of Swing" played along on his guitar in a different version again and again. I really love it :-)