I am surprised and happy that my two talks were accepted for Open Source Expo 08 in Karlsruhe, Germany. OpenExpo is a two-day event starting on Monday, May 26th, which is the only day when I will be attending.

I am especially excited about my general talk about The Apache Software Foundation at 16:50. I already have a rough outline of the talk, but if you'd like to give me some input about what I should definitively not forget to tell about the ASF, your input is much appreciated. Just post to community@apache.org or drop me a private mail at bernd dot fondermann at brainlounge.de.

The other session is an introductionary talk about Apache Lucene (at 10:20), similar to the one I gave in January at OSMB.

Also, if you'd like to meet, you find my cell phone number on the internet, or contact me over xing or linkedin.

Unfortunatly, the ASF - being one of the biggest and most successful communities in Open Source is not representing with its own booth on the expo floor. Hopefully we get one organized next year.

See you in Karlsruhe, the city with the most sun hours in Germany.