Italia

6:00 I leave the hotel in Milano. The day before I walked through Milano and was impressed. I have to come back for a closer look. See pictures. The Metro in Milano opens at 6am. I miss the bus at 7am. It is sooo cold and icy. I take the 7:45 bus to Crema. The distance between Crema and Milano is only 50 km but the bus stopped at EVERY busstop so it takes me 1.5 hours.

9:30 I arrive at the university campus in Crema. The Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'informazione is a part of the university of Milano.

• November 21th, 2009 - 9:00 am
  As I have heard and seen so far, JoomlaDay Italia is one of the biggest Joomla events in the whole world together with the Dutch and the Thai Joomladays.
  Alexred and ste and their team did an incredibly good job here.
  The venue belongs to Fondazione Santa Lucia and is perfect, the entrance is free.
  The room is filling up - there is Italian rock music in the background.
  The spirit here reminds me 5 minutes to DrupalCon Washington in March 2009.
  The sessions will be streamed live on the Internet (hope that works - it worked).
  I do a session to (building a template from scratch).
  The only thing which I really miss is a working internet connection for the public (like me).
  That's a pity because it is not possible for me to send tweets, status updates and other bits and pieces in real time.
  Another thing is, that I forgot my camera and camcorder at home (old boy ... brain is definitely shrinking).
  Good opportunity to try the gallery feature in flickr (gosh ... I forgot, no Internet access).
  More and more people entering the room. It is equipped with four projectors which looks very impressive.
  I am 5 minutes at the entrance together with ste and others to welcome guests.