Hello from Poland

Marcin Celej — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:41:31 GMT

I usually start blogging with Hello World post but this time let it be Hello from Poland. Let me introduce myself. I am an INETA Country Leader for Poland and I’ll try to blog a bit about community here and venues that we organize quite often. You may also expect to read my thoughts on community itself. This was the intro and now…

Story of my live :). Well maybe just a bit about myself to pleasure my megalomania :). I am a software architect (architect is a software developer that does not have where to go furthern :) with university background. Five years ago some smart people decided to organize a User Group in the most beautifull Polish city – Kraków. I was there and I found this is it. This is what I like to do as I love to share my knowledge. I was speaking on the seceond meeting about Unit Testing with NUnit. During those five years I was speaking so many times that I cannot remember. I also was a leader of the User Group and I can tell one thing: this form of self exhibitionism still thrills me. I also organized Polish edition of the First European Silverlight Challenge. Finally I got this opportunity to be the INETA Country Leader and here I am.

Unfortunatelly I do not have much time nowadays. I am father of two sons and my wife always tells me I am to old to play toys :) – she means the community activities I am involved in. I believe this is wifes responsobility to keep husban at home :). No way.

I have few topics I will try to write really soon:

CodeCamp in Kraków
Other events organized yearly by the entire Polish community (like C2C)
UG Leaders meetings – we have a meeting every half a year and you should see almost 100 leaders gathered in one place. This is really motivating.
UG activites I like – especially Study Groups (how to organize them)
How the Polish community is organized and what works fine (from my point of view)
Our site – we have a one site for almost all UGs in Poland.
Speaker Tours – we organize a really extensive ‘vacations’ for spekaers from outside Poland – e.g. Glen Block was visiting 5 cities in 6 days.

That’s all for the begining. We’ll see how it works.

Marcin Celej (Poland)

Hello from Poland