The recent Nooku Jam Leuven can be easily summed up in 2 words – incredibly inspiring!
Twenty six attendees discussed, collaborated and shared ideas on the 26th and 27th of November at the FlandersDC Creativity Lab in Leuven, Belgium. The Jam, sponsored by Moyoweb, Beyounic and Timble, was an inspiring weekend for the Nooku community.
The recipe : great ideas, creative people, lots of food and Belgian beer and an inspiring venue! Check the photostream of David Deutsch for the evidence of the inspiring weekend.
Looking Back
One of the rules of the Nooku Jam is : “You blog about the Jam” and that’s exactly what some of the jammers did.
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Following up on the success of the first Asian Nooku Jam in Manila last September 2010. This year’s jam, was held in the heart of one of Metro Manila’s CBDs – Ortigas, where we were kindly given the run of the TechBar in the headquarters of Exist Software Labs.
Jammers from all over
Demonstrating the global reach of Nooku, two of our Jammers hailed from the foothills of the gods – Nepal. Nischal Pradhan, founder and CEO of a software development firm in Nepal that utilizes Nooku technology, was in Manila when he found out that Mr. Nooku himself was going to be in town, he and some of his team, jumped at the chance to be part of the Jam.
The other 13 Jammers were local Filipino IT professionals mainly working for private commercial companies and the academe.
Sticky notes
The Jam kicked off with a free form sticky note session, where participants wrote questions and ideas they were interested to find out about Nooku. The sticky notes were then posted on a whiteboard and Johan used this to structure the agenda for the day – very unconference style!
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This is a guest post from Jelle Munk, of Stoel de Munk, attendee of the Nooku Jam Leuven 2011.
I was a web developer who worked anonymously behind my desk using open source software but I did not like where I was going:
- I did not share;
- I did not collaborate;
- I did not contribute code.
Something had to change, I felt working with free and open source software was more than this.
Picture of Jelle from the ‘Making Nerds Look Good’ photostream by David Deutsch.
Hello Community
I heard about the Nooku Framework and watched the talks Johan has been giving about the framework. More importantly, what really got my attention was his philosophy about open source development.
I saw an upcoming event called the ‘Nooku Jam Leuven‘ and felt it was a good way to force myself to learn more about open source. Taking the next step, I signed up!
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