Pondělí listopad 03, 2008

My First Business Trip

I spent my last weekend on the Polish OpenSolaris Conference 2008 in Szczecin, Poland, which was my first official business trip ever. I enjoyed it, particularly because our presentation about Translation of OpenSolaris went well and the demo of our Community Translation Interface (CTI) worked fine.

But the trip would be a bit boring if I weren't accompanied by my colleagues. Lukas, our Entertainment Secretary, did a fantastic job of finding out the places with the highest concentration of young Polish girls historical monuments. The Saturday night was full of nice surprises: the Polish youth speaks English, recommends good restaurants and organizes free Saturday night live music events. We weren't far from singing karaoke during the event, which appeared to be some youth festival.

On the way back to Prague we stopped at Police, ~20 km north of Szczecin, to see the former synthetic fuel factory operated during the Nazi times by the prisoners of the German concentration camp Pölitz. The remains of the factory, which survived the bombing of Allied armies, reminded us of the despair felt by millions of WW II victims. Although the place is now all covered by grass, the tall factory walls, the railway station and the ruins of the barb wire fence are still there and I realized that anybody who survived cannot erase the horrible lively image of the place from their memories.

Want more?

• Translation of OpenSolaris slides in PDF
• My photos from Szczecin
• Photos from Polish OpenSolaris Conference by osconfszc08

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