After the Convention
Whew, finally after the whirlwind travels to Benguet and Davao, I’m finally back in Cagayan de Oro. Talk about much needed rest. Now is the perfect time to reflect on the events.
QITC Convention
The convention was really fun despite me having to rush because my flight the next day is quite early. I had fun meeting Ms. Yolynne Medina for the first time. We’ve been exchanging emails and chatting on Gmail for quite some time and the meetup at the convention was one meeting long overdue. The post-convention meetup of the speakers were held at the OIC restobar at Corrales Avenue. I was actually late for the meetup but what the heck I was preparing things for my trip 
. I’ve finally met Calen Legaspi and JM Ibanez from Orange and Bronze. I’ve also met Aileen Apolo of Google. Others in attendance were Hanie Caragos and John Kaamino of Syntactics, Matt Baluyos, and Yolynne.
Matt, Calen, JM, and I went back to the convention venue at Country Village Hotel, and I was treated to an intellectual discussion with Calen and JM. Calen appears to me as this forceful guy while JM appears to me to be the typical geek (in a good way. I’m a geek too!). I had fun engaging in discussions with them specially when the topic between Java and .NET came. I did not stay much longer and had to bid my adieu late in the night.
To JM and Calen, its been really nice meeting you guys. Hope to meet you again sometime and have those discussions again perhaps over coffee .
To Yolynne, its been great meeting you. Hope we can work together soon on how we can further FOSS intitiatives in Mindanao.
To Aileen Apolo, hope Google will have something in store for the IT guys in Mindanao
To RJIan, sorry I wasn’t able to meet you in person in the convention dude. Perhaps next time
To the QITC organizers, thanks for having me at the convention. Keep it up!