Red Hat Platform Enablement meeting week

Last week I was in Vancouver, Canada again. At the time when Linux Plumbers conference took place. But it was not the main reason as I went there to meet people from Platform Enablement team at Red Hat.

Linux Plumbers

The idea was simple — gather everyone in one place at same time and let them talk. Conference was selected to give something else to do at same time. And we were visible — for 473 attendees about 60 was from Red Hat.

Red Hat team before going for team dinner
Red Hat team before going for team dinner

I was talking with most of RH people to find out who they are, what they are working on etc. It ended in a lot of interesting discussions. Also many talks with non-RH people. The ‘so you are IBM now’ phrase happened just a few times.

There were funny moments too. Like one when Dave Airlie responded with “ah, you are the ‘arm64 + radeon guy’” ;D

Vancouver

As there was no breakfast option in ‘The Burrard’ hotel I went for a walk to find some. Davie street is full of bars, diners, restaurants (but most of them open at 11:00). Interesting graffiti, cannabis stores (as it is now legal in Canada) and lot of LGBT rainbows everywhere.

Band graffiti
Band graffiti
Some "Safe space" monument
Some “Safe space” monument
Tanning salon
Tanning salon
Cannabis Store
Cannabis Store
Fountain
Fountain
Shore
Shore
A-maze-ing Laughter
A-maze-ing Laughter

Toronto

Due to one of my flights being cancelled I had to choose: weekend in Vancouver, weekend in Toronto or rebooking whole trip. So I decided to go to Toronto and meet friend there.

On Saturday I meet Karol and we had long walk. It was good to not discuss about ARM or OpenStack — we went for visual effects instead as this is Karol’s area of expertise. Maya, Houdini, Renderman, Mr. X, ILM, Pixar and other names were going over. I was told “they work on Houdini in that building” and later “here Maya is developed” ;D

So I asked about photo realistic movies — are they possible now? Turns out that yes, they are. But it is too expensive to make.

During weekend I did over 20 kilometers by just walking through the city. Some random photos below:

Thimble monument
Thimble monument
Pink Panther graffiti
Pink Panther graffiti
Dog graffiti
Dog graffiti
Rabbits graffiti
Rabbits graffiti
Leslieville graffiti
Leslieville graffiti
Together sidewalk graffiti
Together sidewalk graffiti
Halloween decorations
Halloween decorations
Small house between bigger ones
Small house between bigger ones
TORONTO city sign with buildings
TORONTO city sign with buildings
TORONTO city sign
TORONTO city sign
Me and TORONTO city sign
Me and TORONTO city sign

It was great week. Despite sleep deprivation ;D

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