#sitNL - About Communities and Families

SAP Inside Track the Netherlands - About Communities and Families

Also published on SDN.

"A picture is worth a 1000 words" - an old saying, and this saying will help me writing this blog  How else can I explain all the good vibes that we felt at SAP Inside Track the Netherlands? Maybe with the one word explanation byThorsten Franz "Community", immediately followed by Mrs. Penninkhof with "Family". Well then, nothing more to add ;-)

You can see for yourself in our recap movie:

What did our agenda offer to our 45 attendees and 17 online participants? Well at least it was a long 'sit'.

Still laughing at the end of the day ...

Recap

in thousand pictures:

Welcome and opening Twan van den Broek Prezi Replay - sorry for bad sound
First experiences with ABAP on HANA Tobias Trapp and Thorsten Franz An opening session by Tobias and Thorsten, two self declared kids in a toy store, describing their experience in the HANA Customer Engagement Initiative. No slides, just Thorsten and Tobias! Thorsten's personal highlights was Tobias coming out as amathematician ;-) Replay
Creating mobile solutions based on cloud and on premise NetWeaver. No Powerpoint slides, only live demos and explanation Tamas Szirtes Replay
The Garbage Collector Deep Dive Leo van Hengel and Twan van den Broek Slides Replay (Starts at 3:30)
Design Thinking Phil Loewen For a first time we hosted a remote session in the agenda as well. After resolving some communication issues (ended up in just calling Phil by phone) we were able to attend an interesting Design Thinking session. Slides Replay (Starts at 10:30)
A sneak peak into the pots of SAP Research's labs - an Operations cockpit for NW Cloud Wolfgang Karl Rainer Schwach Slides Replay (Sorry for bad sound)
HANA Extended Application Services Thomas Jung Thomas Jung, formerly known as ABAPfreak, now totally into HANA. It lead to a discussion whether ABAP developers are a dying breed. Slides Replay - not available, sorry for that (we missed pushing the recording button ...)
ABAP developers, what does your future in SAP look like? Roel van den Berge Roel, known to me as an passionate techie, hosted a session on a soft topic. With his enthusiasm he took us all on the journey into the future. Don’t sit and wait, act! It’s not your boss who is responsible for your career - it’s you. Roel certainly looked further than his nose long was (sorry bad translation of Dutch saying). Slides Replay
Security? For sure I'll break SAP. Oh and I will also tell how to fix it again... Joris van de Vis Hacking into your ABAP or Java system or preventing someone hacking into your system. Joris knows how to handle. Note to myself, never lend your laptop to someone with the skills of Joris  Slides Replay
The power of communities Marilyn Pratt The mother of our community, Marilyn, talked about the power of communities. Prevent that you kill innovation or have non participating communities. Learn how to fail! Being involved in the Geek Night - Process Design Slam - Innovation Weekend - InnoJam, I can for sure tell you that Marilyn knows where we should be heading. Please check her TEDx talk as well. Replay
Latest insight on SAP en Microsoft interoperability and stuff like Duet Enterprise, W8 and Win RT Pim de Wit Pim talked about what once was said to be the holy grail - SAP and Microsoft combined in Duet. With SharePoint mobile enabled there is huge freedom of choice for all you enterprise mobility developers. Slides Replay
Data Visualization is a new old topic; worth discussing the current "state of the art" Vitaliy Rudnytskiy Vitaliy - who won the price of traveling the most kilometers to Eindhoven. Thank you for that! And yes, he was a data geek before it was cool. To illustrate his story he used graphs - really old ones - from the year 1802! Replay - video missing, sorry for that
Q&A: ABAP Development Tools aka ABAP in Eclipse + SAPlink for ADT Uwe Fetzer Uwe must be very happy to still be able to run transaction SE38 within Eclipse. Another great example of the fact that ABAP developers are not a dying breed, as long as you keep your knowledge up to date. Reference Replay
Update on the status of SAP Developer Center after TechEds (not just from Madrid, but as well from Vegas and Bangalore) Vitaliy Rudnytskiy A second session, with a second shirt, putting developers in the center. Try - Develop - Share and Sell. Replay
Thorstenster's surprise show Thorsten Franz Professor Thorsten hosted a surprise college about Pagination in HANA. Guess next year we will all be able to book a 2 or 4 hour hands on workshop by Thorsten at SAP TechEd. Replay (Starts at 3:40)
Mobilize your SAP backend with NetWeaver Gateway. End2End scenario using ECC, NetWeaver Gateway, NetWeaver Cloud and SAPUI5. Roelof Jan Bouwknegt Roelof Jan, a sitNL newbie, explained that he was a gateway and cloud newbie but has a lot of years experience in doing ABAP (an ABAP oldbie?). A real daredevil by doing live coding on stage! Replay
SCN Pubquiz Sven Van Leuken A social event to conclude a day of learning and sharing knowledge. Sven took a deep dive into SDN and came up with all kind of community questions to be answered with a simple Yes or No. This was great fun! Questions Replay (sorry for bad sound, starts at 1:50)
Dinner party Mrs. Penninkhof Every family event is to be ended with a special dinner. We were very happy to have Mrs. Penninkhof, Haseenah, with us to cook us a lovely, delicious, dinner. That alone was worth while traveling to Eindhoven to attend sitnl, as said by the attendees.

Sponsors

Thanks again to our sponsors for being able to create a high quality event with fantastic food, beverages and prices.

• Ciber
• Phoqus
• SAP
• SAP Press
• The Next View

Final thanks

• To Mrs. Penninkhof for serving a wonderful meal
• To all our presenters for hosting such quality sessions
• To Ivan Femia who certainly tried to get to NL but got stranded due to the snow
• To Jeroen Elie, Michael Hardenbol, Steven Spronk, Roel van den Berge for setting up the Ciber office to welcome our sitnl friends
• To Michael Hardenbol, Steven Spronk and Leo van Hengel for recording the sessions, at least most of them 
• To you reading this blog and making it to the end
• To the sitnl co organizers: Roel van den Berge,  Sven Van Leuken, Jan Penninkhof, Tamas Szirtes, Fred Verheul,  Pim de Wit

Last words

Want to see more pics? Check out our sitNL album on Flickr.

SAP Inside Tracks are community events in optima forma, I hope that, after reading this blog, you will attend your local version. And please mark your agenda: December 2013, the fifth sitnl!