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

Raúl Sánchez raul.sanchez at futuranetworks.com
Tue Feb 4 11:55:06 CET 2014


¡Hola Juanjo!
 
Más allá de los personajes en cuestión... y del dolor de cabeza que nos han
dado antes, durante y ... después... Sugiero hablemos sobre la respuesta
consensuada a este mensaje, de momento por email ya que ha sido su canal. En
mi opinión hay varias opciones:
 
1) Responder simplemente de forma muy aséptica dándoles las gracias por su
feedback y tomando nota de sus comentarios para seguir mejorando.
2) Responder a las acusaciones que están haciendo tanto a TID como a la
atención recibida en Campus de forma "polite" y aséptica. El mensaje sería:
8.000 campuseros han pasado por Campus y 37 equipos de FI-WARE que han dado
una valoración muy positiva de su experiencia. Sentimos que su experiencia
no haya sido positiva pero...
3) Pasamos de responderles.
 
Cuando vuelvas de Bruselas lo hablamos porfa. Como ya habíamos comentado,
esperábamos algún acción similar a esta. Afortunadamente no la liaron en la
entrega de premios pero nunca se sabe el ruido que quieren hacer y a quíen
han copiado...
 
Un abrazo,
 
Raúl
 
 

Raúl Sánchez 
Futura Networks & Campus Party

Madrid, Spain 
+34-659311383 

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De: fiware-comms-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu
[mailto:fiware-comms-bounces at lists.fi-ware.eu] En nombre de Juanjo Hierro
Enviado el: lunes, 03 de febrero de 2014 21:15
Para: CARLOS RALLI UCENDO; FERMIN GALAN MARQUEZ; FRANCISCO ROMERO BUENO;
FERNANDO LOPEZ AGUILAR
CC: Paco Ragageles; Ángel Hernández; fiware-comms at lists.fi-ware.eu
Asunto: [Fiware-comms] Mail de los rusos ... no tiene desperdicio



  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.

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


enjoy the reading :-)



ciao,

stefano





---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Ignat Ignatov  <mailto:ignat99 at gmail.com> <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



---------- Forwarded message ----------

From: Ignat Ignatov  <mailto:ignat99 at gmail.com> <ignat99 at gmail.com>

Date: 2014-01-30

Subject: Fwd: Problems of Telefonica I+D

To: Eduardo Martín  <mailto:eduardo.martin at futuranetworks.com>
<eduardo.martin at futuranetworks.com>, JAVIER DE

PEDRO SANCHEZ  <mailto:jdps at tid.es> <jdps at tid.es>





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From: Kestutis Januskevicius  <mailto:infohata at gmail.com>
<infohata at gmail.com>

Date: 2014-01-30

Subject: Re: Problems of Telefonica I+D

To: Ignat Ignatov  <mailto:ignat99 at gmail.com> <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.





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Best regards,

Kestutis Januskevicius

Mob.#: +358453115151





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Stefano De Panfilis

Chief Innovation Officer

Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.

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00148 Roma

Italy



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