[Fiware-comms] Mail de los rusos ... no tiene desperdicio

Juanjo Hierro jhierro at tid.es
Mon Feb 3 21:15:03 CET 2014


  Me lo ha pasado Stefano, que lo ha recibido (la lista de destinatarios está oculta, así que algunos tal vez lo hayais recibido).    No debían de tener mi dirección de correo, así que yo no lo he recibido.   Sin palabras.

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Subject:        Fwd: Problems of Telefonica I+D
Date:   Mon, 3 Feb 2014 16:25:46 +0100
From:   stefano de panfilis <stefano.depanfilis at eng.it><mailto:stefano.depanfilis at eng.it>
To:     Juanjo Hierro <jhierro at tid.es><mailto:jhierro at tid.es>



enjoy the reading :-)

ciao,
stefano


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From: Ignat Ignatov <ignat99 at gmail.com><mailto:ignat99 at gmail.com>
Date: 2014-02-02
Subject: Fwd: Problems of Telefonica I+D
To:


Hello,

As it was in fact :-)

Regards,
ignat

P.S. Wi-Fi not working

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From: Ignat Ignatov <ignat99 at gmail.com><mailto:ignat99 at gmail.com>
Date: 2014-01-30
Subject: Fwd: Problems of Telefonica I+D
To: Eduardo Martín <eduardo.martin at futuranetworks.com><mailto:eduardo.martin at futuranetworks.com>, JAVIER DE
PEDRO SANCHEZ <jdps at tid.es><mailto:jdps at tid.es>


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From: Kestutis Januskevicius <infohata at gmail.com><mailto:infohata at gmail.com>
Date: 2014-01-30
Subject: Re: Problems of Telefonica I+D
To: Ignat Ignatov <ignat99 at gmail.com><mailto:ignat99 at gmail.com>


Hello Dear Sirs,

We have arrived by plane to the Sao Paulo 1 day earlier that would
catch the senseless rally at 18.30 on 27th evening. Our daily flight
option via Amsterdam lands ~19:00 in Brazil. We have paid more
expensive flight tickets and night in hotel as extra just to
participate in that introduction rally, which as we found out was not
really necessary. From the email we received 1 week before the campus
party event, it looked like it is necessary.

We were not told that in Sao Paulo we may get stuck with such problems
like getting money out of our cards, as not all bank machines accept
european cards. We have spent over 3 hours to change money for the
ticket to metro to Tiete station as we left our hotel. A simple
message in advance that we can get money in CityBank would have solved
the problem.

Information about directions to the CPBR hangar did not exist until
the last night before our flight. It came only in Portuguese language
and only directions to the street where to find a free shuttle bus.
The shuttle service from Portuguesa-Tiete was 500 meters away from the
exit of the Tiete station, opposite of the CPBR hangar, which, as we
found out, was not more than 1km away from Tiete.

We did not get any directions how to get to the CPBR from the airport.
That information was very difficult to find, as all the information
available was only in Portuguese.

As we have arrived to the campus area, we have found a complete chaos.
We spent like 2 hours to get into the camp, going round and round the
camp with all our heavy luggage, leading by confused campus party
staff, to get our tent without a mattress (we have almost learned
necessary portuguese by then), and to find a surprise that we will
have to pay for food the price like in a 4 star hotel. We were not
advised that we will not get a mattess in our tent, we did not had a
chance to buy it. The two nights we have spent in the camp made us to
seek medical assistance and almost made us crazy. We expected
Telefonica to provide us a normal sleeper, normal living and working
conditions and acceptable food for the fact that we have to work for
their benefit. Furthermore, nobody has issued a sticker on our
equipment, though I have registered it on the site in advance. We had
issues with the security staff on the exit about that. The tent
provided was too intimate for two adult man. We could not agree to
sleep in that together. Because of that, there were a lot of people
sleeping all around the campus - armchairs, chairs, tables, even floor
where carpet was softer than a concrete under the tent. The day before
the presentation on the FiWare stand there was no internet or network
operational. Part of our prototype required pre-configuration of
network to demonstrate it. So we could not prepare our prototype to
show it even if we were ready to do that. As we have found out later,
nobody had a live hardware or software prototype demo.

We were told of big opportunities to meet investors, possible
partners, present our project, press coverage. All we got is a horde
of children playing games and using Facebook and making noise 24h/day.
We did not get a single investor contact, not a single possible
partner contact, and our "competitors" had a hostile look on us. We
have presented our project in an unbearable noisy environment in the
dark with zero audience. We had to use flash lights to see our
surroundings during the presentation session, which also took place
about 1 hour late on schedule. The parallel presentations of separate
two categories took place at the same area and were disturbing each
other, additionally to the unbearable noise from the surroundings. We
were also told that working language of the event will be English, but
the only moments where we had English were the encounters with
Fi-Ware/Telefonica. We also have found out that Telefonica experts are
not interested in technical subtleties of our solution, all they care
is how to tie our project to as much as possible of their products.
Most of the technology we showed they saw for the first time, and it
looked like they do not know the technical side of the hardware for
Smart Home and Smart City. However, they were very arrogant and
incorrect - as for example, we went to the jury group who were
evaluating software projects and informed that our presentation in the
business group is technically well developed and we believe that it
would be useful for them. We were offensively rejected and told that
we might show it to them later. It was about the most advanced and
expensive sensors, which are widely used for home automation. None of
the members of the technical group did not show the slightest
ineteresa to this topic.

After the presentation we have got a few disconnected questions, no
feedback on our project, without clear instructions what exactly we
should present on the Firday 31st/January session. They did not ask to
get the material about our project, did not take even a copy of the
presentation. We did not also receive the recommendations on what we
should do next in the written form (email or paper). We were also told
that Fi-Ware staff will be present at their stand at all times and if
we have questions we are free to come there and work with them. We
came back 2 hours after our presentation (~23:00 29th Jan) and waited
for over 12 hours to find anybody who could answer our questions.
During that waiting time we were sweeping the camp for possibilities
and found only under 10 people who could use a unix console or a
compiler, and only two who could speak any of our languages, and those
two were under influence of alcohol. We still do not understand why
were we brought to Brazil such a long distance to present our project
to no audience and in a concentration camp conditions. We did not have
allocated conference rooms for peaceful work and meetings, we were not
provided even with a minimum public stand to place our presentation.
We did not exist as a registered project for public in the Campus
Party at all.

As we were completely exhausted, at ~11AM in the morning, we contacted
one of the finally found FiWare representatives. When we asked him
about the working hours of their staff at the pavilion, we were told
back that this information was not our business, and that we have no
right in asking such questions. He exaggerated nervously that their
work schedule is free. After a few calls he made, he told us that one
representative of the jury of our category could be available earliest
in 1 hour. Such "anytime" presence and horrible camp conditions are
not acceptable to us, as we were not sleeping normally for over 60
hours, and we have had already arranged the retreat to a hotel in the
city to rehabilitate ourselves and try to do some work there later.

As we observed, all the participants have had the same issues -
working without sleep all 2 days, at their own expense, for free. We
all had to pay our food, and for all of us money provided as a price
were taxed and were just enough for the flight tickets. The conclusion
is, that this story which is happening with this competition is a
clear abuse of power and position.

For the sake of avoiding a conflict with Telefonica we did not call
the insurance company, covered our medical expenses (one of us had got
cold while trying to sleep on a concrete in the tent, a strong
headache, etc.) and moved to a normal hotel. Another of us were trying
to sleep on a sofa in the party area, by holding the bags with
expensive hardware to prevent it from going missing.

In the morning on the second day all the toilets and showers were
flooded with at least 2cm layer of waste water.

Considering all the above conditions, it is impossible to work
productively on the project in the territory of Campus Party.


--
Best regards,
Kestutis Januskevicius
Mob.#: +358453115151


--
Stefano De Panfilis
Chief Innovation Officer
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
via Riccardo Morandi 32
00148 Roma
Italy

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