Monthly Archives: July 2008

This time I’ll not be writing some technical post, but I’ll write an excerpt of a book I’m reading right now. I should say that I read normal books just once in a year, and also if I feel as I should change this, I’m almost sure it will not happen… Anyway, I wanna write this thought just because sometimes, as lot of us already know, we don’t feel our freedom. We have lots of constraints in our life, we have a figure to show up, and lots of rules. And as I usually forget that we still are the owners of our life, we decide what to do of our life, I hope that writing this piece of text will help me somehow in the future… to remember.

Ok, lets stop telling this kind of stuff, and lets write. It’s in Italian, so sorry if somebody will not able to understand it, but a translation can’t comunicate the real feelings. The book is titled Giovanni Allevi, la musica in testa and speaks about a guy, a composer, that probably lived only following a dream. Something that in our day is difficult to find.

In realtà dobbiamo evitare di strozzare il torrente impetuoso che è in ognuno di noi, dobbiamo evitare l’inibizione e tuffarci nella danza delle cose, fosse anche il traffico cittadino.

Ma l’inibizione nasce nel pensiero solitario: La nostra piccola mente non ce la fa a contenere un universo che danza, e allora concepisce il concetto dell’irragiungibile, dell’impossibile, della delega a forze altrui.

Invece il non pensare è apertura e paradossalmente è comunicazione profonda con gli altri: ora che siamo di fronte, dimentichiamo i nostri ruoli, i nostri nomi e riconosciamoci come esseri umani, come miracoli. Un essere umano, chiunque sia, è il culmine la cui natura è giunta e da essa si differenzia per l’estrema imprevedibilità, per la misteriosa e prodigiosa presenza.

I could say also that sometimes we live some moments of our life without knowing what will happen in the future, and this can be scary. But this scary can be also energy if we decide to, energy that can change our life into a followed dream.

I’m here to post about an event that in the rest of the world could sound just normal, but that here in Italy I rarely saw. Before telling you what I’m talking about looks at these photos, and tell me what comes to your mind. For me this looks like a group of friends, that are meeting in a awesome place in Tuscany, to spend a weekend enjoying the sun and the company of each other. And for you?

Ok, back to reality. This was TechTalk Italia 2008, a meeting organized by netwo.it with the aim to make natural the exchange of ideas, of experiences, of serious and no-serious staff. All about Web 2.0. All this in the most comfortable way, in the country side of amazing Italy. A better idea of what a TechTalk is, can be given from this excerpt:

Techtalk is an event originally organized by Martin Varsavsky for the best european/world web2.0 entrepreneurs. The whole weekend spent together, during a few sessions everyone participating will give a short presentation of her/his activity/experience. Our families will be with us and we will also take the time to have fun all together.

The best part for me, although to see the the web in Italy is that alive, was the fact that almost all the people working on Mikamai was there! I had the luck to work with them for one month this year and they are a new, really cool! company, born with the aim to make everything unconventional, and despite the motto, they are really doing this!

The other aspect that made me happy is to know that lot of people participating at TechTalk use Ruby, the language that I love and that I use everywhere I can, also when I should use something else! This reinforce the idea that Ruby is a catalyst for great minds and people that do and don’t only speak ;-)

Stay tuned to Mikamai…