#sitfra

Nearly exactly one year after the very first community-driven conference about UI5, there was a moving reunion of Frankfurt UI5con edition on March 24, 2017. It was delighting to spot so many familiar faces among the attendees, all of them quite excited to be back to the scene. Once again around 80 UI5 geeks & enthusiasts from all over Europe joined up in the halls of AOK Systems and followed the invitation of the SitFRA organization team. I think I don't need to tell that again there was a rush on the registration and tickets were sold out within less than 2 hours.

The event kicked of by the main drivers Christian Braukmüller, Hendrik Neumann and Tobias Trapp, and in old tradtion with the obligatory group selfie. 

Arnd vom Hofe subsequently had the honor to take over from there and made community work attractive to the attendees by presenting the main channels to connect and contribute to UI5 technology. He also shared some insides on which areas the UI5 lab wants to work more closely with the community. In this context he introduced among other things the new Related Projects page on OpenUI5.org where people can commit their open source project that extends or contributes to UI5. He also told the audience about their intention to create commonly with the community a custom repository for controls, custom models and linked applications and invited everybody to join this action group. Sean Campbell thereupon could not resist and created almost immediately after Arnd ended the new channel openrepo in the OpenUI5 slack to kick-start the project (and actually currently the community is busy to find a proper name for this project - it's not too late to join this work ;-)).

Afterwards the group was spoiled for choice as from then till the big announcement of the #UI5Top5 by Twan van den Broek two sessions ran in the same time. Speakers quite new to the UI5con scene appeared with some pretty "old hands" like Volker Buzek, Karol Kalisz, Vladimir Hilderink, Nabi Zamani or Kimmo Jokinen, but all with the right commitment and a number of great topics. There were for example talks about reactive programming, SAP Web IDE plug-ins, asynchrony, OData messages, APIs, automated code formatting, quite some field reports and many more. But perhaps the important element were the breaks in between during which it was possible to have many interesting discussions and to refresh contacts.

We applaud the sitFRA team for - again - organizing an unforgettable event, compliment also to all speakers and a big thanks goes as well the the sponsors, which whom none of this would have been possible!