RE: [Paddlewise] paddling near El Segundo, CA

From: John Fereira <jaf30_at_cornell.edu>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:48:59 -0500
At 11:33 AM 2/5/2005 -0800, Steve Holtzman wrote:
>John,
>
>Southwind Kayaks is located in Irvine, CA (about 45 minutes south of El
>Segundo. I believe the web site is www.southwindkayaks.com.

I wasn't planning on renting a car while I'm there (the place I'm going to 
is just a few miles from LAX) but it's a start.


>I'm guessing you will be working with either Raytheon, The Aerospace Corp,
>or Northrop-Grumman. How'd I do?

Nope.  I've been involved with an open source software framework called 
uPortal (www.uportal.org) for the past few years and the core developers 
meeting is being held at the offices (Unicon) where the former project 
manager worked (he just recently left the project before the meeting 
location was announced).  I'm the documentation coordinator for the project 
and have been involved in some of the database work and 
infrastructure.  Since our former project manager is leaving the project 
there are a lot of decisions to be made as to how to fill his shoes.   The 
first developers meeting that I ever attended on the project was held in 
St. Johns, Newfoundland and several of the  attendees and I spent a day 
following the meeting kayaking off the coast with an outfitter.  I've got a 
great photo from inside a sea cave with several of the uPortal developers 
sitting in kayaks just outside the entrance.  I use it as an intro whenever 
I do a presentation on uPortal because it looks like a portal with the 
developers in the middle.

John Fereira
jaf30_at_cornell.edu
Ithaca, NY
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