Croatia Land of Fine Workshops - Speednet BlogSpeednet Blog

Istria – a part of Croatia that is commonly regarded as Italy basically, both by native Croatians, and long-time tourists who have already visited both places several times. Indeed there is something in this statement, the whole region just seems to have this lazy, relaxed, slow-life, drink-coffee-whole-morning feeling. And by the way, this drink coffee stuff is not an oversimplification – they do have these café literally on every corner and people there do indeed drink coffee and smoke cigarettes inside. Personally, I don’t have that much of an experience with Italy, but it somehow feels Italian. It doesn’t seem like a great place to learn and gain knowledge, does it? But surprisingly, Rovinj, one of the most popular and known cities in Istria was a home for this years Web Summer Camp – a programming conference, for web related technologies, hosted in Croatia since very begining. And I have had a real privilege to attend it this year. First of all, let me give some background on Web Summer Camp. It is not really your typical conference with, more or less, but usually rather boring lectures and not always that entertaining lecturers. Don’t get me wrong, these are also important, and one indeed can learn a lot, but Web Summer Camp is so much more because it consists of workshops, which is a unique event style, definitely in Europe. It is organized by a Croatian company – Netgen, whose co-funder Ivo Lukač started it a few years ago. The …