It is no secret that our Cherokee-Project Community has been growing steadily and relentlessly over the last couple of years. In fact, it has been doing so well that we’ve reached a point where holding a conference about the project actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of people have been asking about this, and after a lot of work we are ready to announce our first Summit, to be held on May 7th-8-th.

You can read Alvaro’s announcement, or you can check out the Summit web-site.

Cherokee will be an important topic, but it won’t be the only one. Those will be a couple of days fully dedicated to High Performance and Scalable Web topics, so there’s room for everyone to join in.  We are commited to reaching the 1.0 milestone of Cherokee by then, so we will also have a party to celebrate it.

It’s going to be fun. I’ll be a speaker at the summit and I’m really looking forward to personally meeting many of the members of the project. Thanks to our sponsors we’ve managed to make the event completely free, so don’t forget to register while we still have free spots!

UPDATE: We’ve written a little brochure (~100KB) that can be used to  let your colleagues know about the summit. Do not hesitate to send it to any coworker or friend who would be interested in attending a High Performance and Scalable Web event.

Last weekend I went to the wedding of my good friends Álvaro López Ortega and Lidia Fernández Gago. I don’t fancy weddings, but I must say I loved this one. The couple made sure we all had a great time, and had several surprises ready for us to enjoy the party.

If you click on the image you’ll download a MIDI file of a piece that was played on violin at the ceremony. The Super Mario Bros theme, by Köji Kondö. Hey, you gotta love those geeks! ;-)

Congratullations, Alvaro and Lidia! I hope you have a fantastic -well deserved- Honeymoon. Best of wishes to both of you on your new life.