HrOUG – The Croatian Conference

Arriving on Tuesday afternoon, directly from the Slovenia Conference and it’s straight into the 3rd Autumn conference! Conveniently, Slovenia and Croatia are timed together and are held within a little over 1 hours drive (plus a 15 minute boat ride!) apart. Well done on that one guys!

A quiet beer as many speakers and delegates wait at the docks for the boat to arrive, and I seem to be timing these sunsets well!

Wednesday was a day off, so Tuesday night allowed me to let my hair down a little and have a drink until late into the night. Wedneday, and the organizer, Davor, had arranged for all of the Oracle ACEs and Oakies to go on a tour of nearby Pula followed by some Go Karting. Great fun! I knew nothing of Pula so I was rather surprised to discover a huge Amphitheatre there!

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The talks, on Thursday and Friday, were a repeat of the talks in Slovenia about Histograms and Plan Stability.  A great conference in a truely excellent location – having the conference on an island gives it the same magic as the OUGN conference: you can’t just wander off, we are all there together and that really adds to the conference.

Rovinj with Andrew!

As a added bonus, one of my friends happened to be in the nearby town of Rovinj on the Friiday afternoon, which meant a serendipidous meet-up for lunch.

Overall a wonderful pair of conferences which felt as much a holiday as work, although I think I need a holiday to recover from them.