Guatemala City

I attended this year’s OTN Latin America 2015 tour and travelled across 5 countries.

Guatemala was one of the places I always wanted to visit so I arrived a day early on own expenses. My flight was via FRA and Houston and I arrived at GUA City an hour and half before midnight. My suitcase did not. It took an hour until somebody from UA showed up at the airport so I missed Deiby from the local user group who volunteered to pick me up at the airport on a Friday night.

The following day I did a trip to the historic city of Antigua, the old capital including a guided walk through the center and an easy walk up to Cerro de la Cruz which offers a breathtaking view to the surrounding volcanoes and Antigua.

The conference itself was an excellent experience (thanks to Deiby Gomez and his colleagues!), perfectly organized and coordinated with a great mixture and huge number of local and international speakers. For the first time I met Daniel Morgan, Anton Els (see his posting for the fantastic boring / exciting pic we took!), Edward Roske, Björn Rost and Jeff Davies in person. One of the cool things of an OTN tour is that you can listen also to a lot of great people so I attended most of Dan’s and Jeff’s session but unfortunately missed Anton’s sessions.

My own session was well attended. I guess that over 100 people showed up which was a big surprise to me! My Spanish is slightly above Tarzan level, still I decided to give the introduction in Spanish and the rest in English, which on the one hand side was confusing for the live interpreter and on the other hand side entertaining for the audience. At the end of the day we had a lovely speakers dinner playing a bit of golf while having excellent food.

You can download the slides for my presentations on Slideshare:

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