Francisco Figueiredo Jr Activities

Hi, all! I'm back to Brazil! And I have to say that I loved Canada!! I'm seriously thinking about applying for an immigration process. Let's see what I can get... I could see a lot of things and I liked very much Canadian people. They are very nice! For me it was a great pleasure to be in such a place! I hope to go back there some day. I visited Niagara Falls, went for the first time to a casino. In Brazil they are not allowed. I met a lot of people from many places in the world: Korea, Japan, Belgium, England, Australia, USA and so on. I enjoyed very much to stay in a hostel. I never stayed in one before and I liked very much the experience. That's it! I will post some pictures later and more impressions too.

PGCon 2008 was awesome!!! I could meet a lot of people from postgresql community and take a lot of pictures!! I even got a picture with Tom Lane! Thank you very much, Selena! :) I finally could meet Dave Page in person. Dave has helped Npgsql project in the beginning, 2002 and we never have met before! I also could meet Magnus Hagander in person. He is a very nice person. I saw some of his talks and was very good! I also could meet Hiroshi Saito and Josh Cooley. Hiroshi Saito is a big evangelist of Npgsql in Japan and has done a great work to talk to others about Npgsql there. Josh Cooley has been working on Npgsql adding nice features, like System.Transactions and entity framework support, and fixing bugs. I enjoyed very much to meet them and doing the presentation. Our presentation was very nice considering this was my first time doing a presentation in english. Josh said my english was good, so I was ok. Thank you Josh! Another person I enjoyed very much to talk to was Selena. She i...

Hi all! I'm right now looking for accommodations in Ottawa, Canada. I'm going to do a presentation about Npgsql at PGCon2008 and as I never went to Ottawa I don't know of any good place to stay. If you have any tips about cheap hotels, hostels or anything , please, let me know. Thanks in advance. Update : I'd really really thank you all of those who gave me tips about places in Ottawa. I already did my reservation and hope to see you there at PGCon2008!!

Hi all! FISL 9.0 was very, very nice!! I enjoyed very much to be able to talk to so many people about FLOSS! I had the great pleasure to meet Josh Berkus and David Fetter! I took a picture with Josh I will post here later. Josh is a very nice person! I enjoyed very much to be able to talk to him. Unfortunately I talked almost nothing with David Fetter. I hope when I'm at PGCon I can talk to him a little bit more :) I also met for the first time Everaldo Canuto on this presentation about Mono. It was very funny. Suddenly on his presentation, Everaldo stops and asks: "Is Francisco here?" After I put my hand up, he asks again: "Are you the Francisco I'm thinking you are?" and everybody started to laugh... :) Anyway, Everaldo is a very funny person. He has a very particular way of doing presentations... I also found my old friend Alessandro Binhara! I didn't know he would be there! It was a very nice surprise. We talked a little bit but unfortunately he sai...

Hi, all!! I'm right now at FISL ( Fórum Internacional de Software Livre ) 9.0 at Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil! FISL is an annual conference about FOSS where we have a very nice opportunity to talk to many people about FOSS. I will post more info about FISL later in another post.

Hi, all! It's a great pleasure to say that "Introducing Npgsql" will be presented at PGCON2008 by me, Josh Cooley and Hiroshi Saito! To me is a great pleasure to be able to meet such great guys! It will be very nice to meet Dave Page too! He helped me very much since beginning of the project. Also, I will have the opportunity to meet other great people from Postgresql community! I'm very excited! I already have my passport and now I'm waiting to get my visa to enter in Canada! This is my first international trip and I think I'm starting very well! I hope to be able to attend international open source meetings more often. This is my first time in Canada and I'm planning to stay from May 12 through May 30. If you have any tips about accommodation, places to eat, sleep and go in Canada (day and night :) ), please, let me know! Thanks everybody and thanks God for this opportunity. See you in Canada at PGCON2008!!