My last full day in Pune. The highlights were:
Beating the traffic! I asked for the driver to come at 8am: he arrived at 7:50, and we made it out to the office in 20 minutes. (Yesterday it took over an hour.) I arrived ahead of most of the regulars; fortunately I had a badge that worked. (To maximise the overlap with the rest of the team in Massachusetts, the Pune group tend to start work late and end very late.)
Speaking at an all-hands meeting for the engineering team here in Pune. My subject was engineering culture and practices in Sun. The group seemed pretty enthusiastic, so I wasn’t too worried about running over by a few minutes.
Having my travel rearranged, so that instead of having a 6 hour layover at Mumbai airport I shall now be flying direct to Hyderabad tomorrow. Thanks, Monish and Ulka for arranging this.
And finally, giving an invited talk to the Pune chapter* of the Computer Society of India. The subject was “The Future of Distributed Computing” – and no, you can’t have my slides! They only make sense when I’m talking – maybe not even then. Anyway, there was a good sized audience, and they seemed to enjoy it. (I know that I did.)
So tomorrow I leave Pune and head for Hyderabad. I’ve enjoyed myself here: the ex-Storability team are a really great bunch of engineers. I’m looking forward to returning.
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* Memo to the CSI Pune chapter organizers: lots of pages link to you as http://csipune.com, but that URL seems to be parked.