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[Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Hi all,

I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year and most of you I have never met personally.
We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack, but I only have little background on who you folks actually are.

So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this thread.

I’ll start:

My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied computer-science at the University of Darmstadt.
I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact with all of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost contact when I discovered my interest in computers.

Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no chance to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been working for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15 years. I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to paint a portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining jacket and have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first quarter of 2017 it was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking about giving up my profession as an IT specialist and even starting to learn something new. I was already looking for companies looking for an apprentice as carpenter, when I had another round of self-reflection. Even if I probably would have been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my job, just not for Banks and Insurance companies.
I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues.

It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems are easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from the banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s missing in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access problem is the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight.

Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”. Here if you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session with the board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My idea was to build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I want this to be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for codecentric would be to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions with our large set of professionals in all areas this involves. The board agreed and for the last 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work on Apache PLC4X full-time.

Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m usually in the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week, I love snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water.

Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.

I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend Tanja, where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and which we renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end … so some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops.

Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉

Chris

Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by Niclas Hedhman <ni...@hedhman.org>.

On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:23 PM Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>
wrote:

> Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no chance
> to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been working
> for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15 years.
> I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to paint a
> portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining jacket and
> have him paint with a brush in his mouth.

I love the analogy! I was at a huge investment bank for 4 years, and
managed to "break free" of the straight-jacket, and only got "caught" when
the project was ready to launch and I was 1/8th of the budget and 1/4th of
the time allocated. My boss' boss' boss took notice, and screamed "shut
that down", about a week before going live. Can't have something like that
lowering his budget allocation. Got transferred internally to the Java
support team, mainly to be responsible for bringing open source into the
firm.

> It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems are
> easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from the
> banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s missing
> in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access problem is
> the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight.
>

Absolutely. What is now called IIoT is nothing new as a principle. The
first buildings I connected to the Internet happened in 1998. And way back
in 1986, I created one of the first PLC-to-PLC dial-up (both directions)
systems at Exomatic (now part of Regin AB). I didn't think much about it at
the time, it was a natural thing, except the modems were a pain, both due
to the incompatible AT commands, non-optimized default settings, and the
fact that they often stopped responding. BUT, I think that part of our
technology made a huge difference to gain customers.

Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I
> travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.
>

Do you play/compose as well? One of my personal thing is Eurorack Modular
Synthesizers, but mainly construction. My son take care of the playing.

> I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend Tanja,
> where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and which we
> renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end … so
> some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m
> probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my
> rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops.
>

He he he... My parents bought an ex-old-folks home in 1970, when it was
nearly impossible to borrow money, for $5000. Constant renovation continued
to ~1995, then slowed down to a project per year until ~2005, when my dad
got too old (80) for heavy duty work. So, I understand the challenge you
have in front of you ;-) ...

> Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what
> drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce
> yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a
> hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉
>

Really cool to hear. I'll pop by if I am in the neighborhood. I was
commuting to Wiesbaden in 2008 for a customer. 2 weeks at home, 4-6 weeks
in Wiesbaden, for about a year. It might happen again ;-)

Btw, my "home" is Malaysia and if anyone from this community happens to
pass through Kuala Lumpur, shout and we'll have a good meal and a beer.

// Niclas

Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by Cesar Garcia <ce...@ceos.com.ve>.

Hi Alls,

I am an electrical engineer, graduated from Universidad de Oriente, 50
years old, I live in Barcelona, Venezuela with two daughters and my wife.

My first computer, an Atari-800XL. :-)

My first automation work was done for the mining area. Mining is very hard
work where safety must always come first and it is the first rule that I
teach the people who have worked with me.
On weekends I had the development of Web pages as a hobby, for the company
and to learn some Linux. Much of this fieldwork was with Sy / Max teams
from Square D.

Then I went to the beverage area (Brewery), where I made my beginnings with
Siemens S5 and many of its variants, as well as many of its functions for
the development of applications in the Brewery area that are still used
(Braumat, Proleit, etc.).
Trying to promote at that time in any meeting Linux or open technologies
was or is sacrilege or heresy in that corporation.

My conclusion was that marketing rules Automation, the example is when a
colleague indicated that a KHS inspection machine started with Linux Suse.
Fuck!

Then with my own company, we developed a Kannel-based Gateway (Open Source)
for a telecommunications company also using many high-availability Linux
tools. It ran smoothly throughout its lifetime.

As partners with Siemens, we carry out many Automation projects for the
mining, beverages, food and Oil & Gas areas, also having training in their
tools (PCS7, Braumat, TIA, etc).
From these works I remember another Gateway that I developed for the
Siemens Apacs and S7 (PCS7) teams, which runs in Java.
After evaluating many tools for implementation (Tomcat, JBoss, etc.) the
last one was Karaf, my brain exploded, this complies with the maxim of
automation, "keep things stupid simple !!!!".
The Gateway runs 24/7 only for scheduled maintenance.

My area of interest has always been the development of a stack of
applications for Automation (from the PLC to the end customer), from there
I come to PLC4X, where the concept of maintaining a uniform API seems
essential to me.
I hate OPC-DA for its DCOM issues and OPC-UA for its fragmentation and
implementation difficulties (a lot of Marketing again).

In specific my areas of interest: Simatic S7, PCS7, Java, Epics,
ControlSystemStudio (CSS), Karaf, S88, PackML, Security systems (SIS).

Best regards,

PS: In the brewery we had a phrase for the programs that came from Germany.
"So that you are going to be easy if you can make it difficult", jeje




El mar., 5 may. 2020 a las 7:23, Christofer Dutz (<ch...@c-ware.de>)
escribió:

> Hi all,
>
> I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year and
> most of you I have never met personally.
> We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack, but
> I only have little background on who you folks actually are.
>
> So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this
> thread.
>
> I’ll start:
>
> My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied
> computer-science at the University of Darmstadt.
> I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact with
> all of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost contact
> when I discovered my interest in computers.
>
> Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no chance
> to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been working
> for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15 years.
> I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to paint a
> portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining jacket and
> have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first quarter of 2017
> it was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking about giving up my
> profession as an IT specialist and even starting to learn something new. I
> was already looking for companies looking for an apprentice as carpenter,
> when I had another round of self-reflection. Even if I probably would have
> been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my job, just not for Banks and
> Insurance companies.
> I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues.
>
> It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems are
> easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from the
> banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s missing
> in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access problem is
> the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight.
>
> Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”. Here
> if you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session with
> the board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My idea
> was to build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I want
> this to be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for
> codecentric would be to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions
> with our large set of professionals in all areas this involves. The board
> agreed and for the last 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work
> on Apache PLC4X full-time.
>
> Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m usually
> in the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week, I love
> snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water.
>
> Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I
> travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.
>
> I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend Tanja,
> where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and which we
> renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end … so
> some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m
> probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my
> rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops.
>
>
> Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what
> drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce
> yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a
> hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉
>
>
> Chris
>
>

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Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by Lukas Ott <ot...@gmail.com>.

My name is Lukas Ott, I’m currently 32 years old and studied information
systems at the University of Insbruck.
I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and a Salesman and therefore already had
contact barcode scanners and CAD (cabeling of buildings) early on.

Being an engineer living near Frankfurt (Germany). I ll often travel to the
south of germany or whole Europe (e.g. North), to do all kind of Industry
4.0 stuff. I have a bachelor degree in industrial engineering but started
early on to go into CAD and PLM. During my Master degree in Innsbruck I
stumbled of Semantic Web and IoT and this is als my first contact with
Apache foundation (to be precise with Apache Stanbol and Apache Marmotta).
I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues (Some of them coming from
Berlin or Hamburg but still travel to the South of Germany a lot).

I am basically working for the realisation of the "Digital Factory" for
over 10 years now, coming from the PLM and Production Perspective. As a
Opensource "enthusiast" supporting several opensource projects like
Openshot and Blender, I was looking for a non-closed solution for machine
connectivity and stumbled by accident into the IoT lab of codecentric 1,5
year ago. Always wanted to beeing part of the Opensource community and
learn from each other in a more free way compared to the boundaries of our
daily jobs.

As i am not a developer and never studied "actual" computer science my
knowledge on programming comes from mostly came from learning on the job
and some basics during my industrial engineering phase (in C and C++ and
Bosch Rexroth PLC programming). My daily job is more business analysis
based. "I connect People, Processes and Machines" and this is also the
reason why I am privately working for PLC4X.

Ok … so I think you got an impression ... feel free to contact me
concerning all kinds of topics around Industrie 4.0 - :)

Cheers,
Lukas

Am Di., 5. Mai 2020 um 13:25 Uhr schrieb Christofer Dutz <
christofer.dutz@c-ware.de>:

> Our team ... not tram ;-)
>
> Am 05.05.20, 13:23 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year
> and most of you I have never met personally.
>     We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack,
> but I only have little background on who you folks actually are.
>
>     So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in
> this thread.
>
>     I’ll start:
>
>     My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied
> computer-science at the University of Darmstadt.
>     I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact
> with all of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost
> contact when I discovered my interest in computers.
>
>     Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no
> chance to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been
> working for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15
> years. I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to
> paint a portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining
> jacket and have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first
> quarter of 2017 it was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking
> about giving up my profession as an IT specialist and even starting to
> learn something new. I was already looking for companies looking for an
> apprentice as carpenter, when I had another round of self-reflection. Even
> if I probably would have been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my
> job, just not for Banks and Insurance companies.
>     I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues.
>
>     It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems
> are easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from
> the banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s
> missing in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access
> problem is the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight.
>
>     Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”.
> Here if you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session
> with the board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My
> idea was to build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I
> want this to be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for
> codecentric would be to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions
> with our large set of professionals in all areas this involves. The board
> agreed and for the last 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work
> on Apache PLC4X full-time.
>
>     Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m
> usually in the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week,
> I love snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water.
>
>     Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I
> travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.
>
>     I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend
> Tanja, where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and
> which we renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end
> … so some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m
> probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my
> rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops.
>
>
>     Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what
> drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce
> yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a
> hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉
>
>
>     Chris
>
>
>

Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>.

Our team ... not tram ;-)

Am 05.05.20, 13:23 schrieb "Christofer Dutz" <ch...@c-ware.de>:

Hi all,

So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this thread.

I’ll start:

Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.

Chris

Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by "Robinet, Etienne" <43...@etu.he2b.be>.

Hi guys,
I'm Etienne, 24 years old (2 weeks until 25) and I'm currently studying
Computer Science with a focus on Industrial IT in Brussels. I'm in my last
semester and doing an Internship in Luxembourg, the country I live in,
where I have been assigned to work with PLC and monitoring data using
Open-source software. I really enjoy being part of this project and plan on
continuing even after my internship.
I initially studied 3 years in Luxembourg to become a teacher when I
decided to turn things around and follow my second option : IT (Maths,
Physics and IT were my main topics in highschool) . I decided to go abroad
to Brussel as most Luxembourgish students go there and I have already gone
there a few times. My father is an Engineer and studied material physics.
He has 2 sons, one likes maths, physics and computers and one hates all of
them. Guess I'm the first one.
I was born in Amiens, France and I'm french, but we moved to Luxembourg in
2000 when I was 5 so I have only a few memories left from my time in
France. I'm a big Gaming Enthusiast and have been playing video games since
I was a kid, but now I mainly play 1 game only. Beside that, I like
experimenting in my kitchen which will always make my girlfriend angry
because I don't clean up. I also like every kind of beer (almost) you can
find but my heart sticks to belgian beers and German "Helles" due to my
Erasmus I did in 2015 where I went to Munich for 6 months.
Or maybe my love for beers & cocktails comes from the fact that I have been
bartending for over 2 years along my studies (on the weekend) and I kind of
enjoy bars. Had to stop in January due to an unplanned but very loved
daughter I got on February which now fills my life with joy. Still looking
forward to when bars open again tho.
Cheers,

Etienne

Le jeu. 7 mai 2020 à 12:32, Julian Feinauer <j....@pragmaticminds.de>
a écrit :

> Hey friends,
>
> first, thanks for starting this excellent initiaive (we should probably
> place the texts even on the "team" part oft he homepage).
>
> I am Julian, 32 years old, married to my lovely wide Constanze and have
> three kids (two of them know toddy personally and like him, the third is
> too small, yet).
> We live in Kirchheim which is about 40km south of Stuttgart and at the
> "Schwäbische Alb" a very nice and rural area.
> I studied math and I really am mathematician by heart. I did my PhD in an
> applied math project and worked (together with my fellow Tim) on lithium
> ion batteries for mobile applications at a Daimler. But I felt too young
> and dynamic to stay in a corporate, thus I started a company.
>
> We initially foused on data analysis and BI stuff but moved more and more
> to technical data and ended up in the "digitalization" or "Industrie 4.0"
> world. We joined the PLC4X project pretty early as we decided to abandon
> our home made stack to polish PLC4X for our purposes. Thus, we have it in
> production since way over a year now and have a lot of hands on experience
> (especially Tim). Thus, we often focus on "boring" things like scraper,
> pools and stability related stuff (like Netty) and do not so much implement
> new drivers (AB Ethernet we did together with Chris). But as we are really
> deep in the community and love it we do way more in the project then we
> would probably need for our business application, solely : )
>
> But generally speaking, you can always ping us with usage scenario
> questions (mostly Siemens S7) and integrations. Currently we see ourselves
> as the main maintainers oft he 0.6 branch at least until one can migrate
> safely and stable to 0.7 (when it will be out) as we have too much stuff in
> production nowadays to play games (Cesar may surely know what happens when
> stuff in production does not work as expected... : D).
>
> So, thanks all of you for making our little community so lovely and
> enyojable. I feel very happy tob e part o fit and to hang out with you
> guys. And we are really making an impact, more and more!
> Julian
>
>
> Am 07.05.20, 11:36 schrieb "Strljic, Matthias Milan" <
> matthias.strljic@isw.uni-stuttgart.de>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I am a research assistant at the University of Stuttgart at the
> Institute of Control Engineering (ISW) and work there in the areas of
> communication/service concepts for automation systems and cloud
> manufacturing.
>     Among other things with projects like RetroNet I got in contact with
> several older automation protocols (ADS, S7, Profinet/bus..) and also more
> recent ones like OPC UA and their diversity despite the common goal. That's
> how I got to know Chris, Julian and the initial PLC4X crew :)
>
>     Before that I completed a study in software engineering. My main
> programming language would be Java, but I already had a lot of stacks in my
> hands (Javascript, C++, Python, Go, C#, Ada, PHP).
>
>     I like to sharpen knives and sometimes distil some schnapps. So if
> someone wants to forget a bug, you can choose between 40 - 80% alcohol
> content and 5 flavours ;) If Toddy leaves some.
>
>
>     At the moment I'm working on the OPC UA integration of Milo into PLC4J
> with the documentation (Pls Toddy stop hurting me! ) and a bridge server
> for the OPC UA representation of other protocols in an extra integrated OPC
> UA server. Our institute is quite experienced in TSN and OPC Companion
> specifications. Therefore I try to integrate the project into publicly
> funded research projects to make PLC4X more known and to support the
> community.
>
>     Greetings Matthias
>
>
>     ________________________________
>     Von: Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>
>     Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2020 13:23:42
>     An: dev@plc4x.apache.org
>     Betreff: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz
>
>     Hi all,
>
>     I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year
> and most of you I have never met personally.
>     We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack,
> but I only have little background on who you folks actually are.
>
>     So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in
> this thread.
>
>     I’ll start:
>
>     My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied
> computer-science at the University of Darmstadt.
>     I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact
> with all of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost
> contact when I discovered my interest in computers.
>
>     Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no
> chance to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been
> working for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15
> years. I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to
> paint a portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining
> jacket and have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first
> quarter of 2017 it was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking
> about giving up my profession as an IT specialist and even starting to
> learn something new. I was already looking for companies looking for an
> apprentice as carpenter, when I had another round of self-reflection. Even
> if I probably would have been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my
> job, just not for Banks and Insurance companies.
>     I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues.
>
>     It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems
> are easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from
> the banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s
> missing in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access
> problem is the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight.
>
>     Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”.
> Here if you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session
> with the board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My
> idea was to build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I
> want this to be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for
> codecentric would be to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions
> with our large set of professionals in all areas this involves. The board
> agreed and for the last 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work
> on Apache PLC4X full-time.
>
>     Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m
> usually in the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week,
> I love snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water.
>
>     Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I
> travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.
>
>     I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend
> Tanja, where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and
> which we renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end
> … so some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m
> probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my
> rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops.
>
>
>     Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what
> drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce
> yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a
> hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉
>
>
>     Chris
>
>
>

Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by Julian Feinauer <j....@pragmaticminds.de>.

Hey friends,

first, thanks for starting this excellent initiaive (we should probably place the texts even on the "team" part oft he homepage).

I am Julian, 32 years old, married to my lovely wide Constanze and have three kids (two of them know toddy personally and like him, the third is too small, yet).
We live in Kirchheim which is about 40km south of Stuttgart and at the "Schwäbische Alb" a very nice and rural area.
I studied math and I really am mathematician by heart. I did my PhD in an applied math project and worked (together with my fellow Tim) on lithium ion batteries for mobile applications at a Daimler. But I felt too young and dynamic to stay in a corporate, thus I started a company.

We initially foused on data analysis and BI stuff but moved more and more to technical data and ended up in the "digitalization" or "Industrie 4.0" world. We joined the PLC4X project pretty early as we decided to abandon our home made stack to polish PLC4X for our purposes. Thus, we have it in production since way over a year now and have a lot of hands on experience (especially Tim). Thus, we often focus on "boring" things like scraper, pools and stability related stuff (like Netty) and do not so much implement new drivers (AB Ethernet we did together with Chris). But as we are really deep in the community and love it we do way more in the project then we would probably need for our business application, solely : )

But generally speaking, you can always ping us with usage scenario questions (mostly Siemens S7) and integrations. Currently we see ourselves as the main maintainers oft he 0.6 branch at least until one can migrate safely and stable to 0.7 (when it will be out) as we have too much stuff in production nowadays to play games (Cesar may surely know what happens when stuff in production does not work as expected... : D).

So, thanks all of you for making our little community so lovely and enyojable. I feel very happy tob e part o fit and to hang out with you guys. And we are really making an impact, more and more!
Julian

Am 07.05.20, 11:36 schrieb "Strljic, Matthias Milan" <ma...@isw.uni-stuttgart.de>:

Hi,

I am a research assistant at the University of Stuttgart at the Institute of Control Engineering (ISW) and work there in the areas of communication/service concepts for automation systems and cloud manufacturing.
Among other things with projects like RetroNet I got in contact with several older automation protocols (ADS, S7, Profinet/bus..) and also more recent ones like OPC UA and their diversity despite the common goal. That's how I got to know Chris, Julian and the initial PLC4X crew :)

Before that I completed a study in software engineering. My main programming language would be Java, but I already had a lot of stacks in my hands (Javascript, C++, Python, Go, C#, Ada, PHP).

I like to sharpen knives and sometimes distil some schnapps. So if someone wants to forget a bug, you can choose between 40 - 80% alcohol content and 5 flavours ;) If Toddy leaves some.

At the moment I'm working on the OPC UA integration of Milo into PLC4J with the documentation (Pls Toddy stop hurting me! ) and a bridge server for the OPC UA representation of other protocols in an extra integrated OPC UA server. Our institute is quite experienced in TSN and OPC Companion specifications. Therefore I try to integrate the project into publicly funded research projects to make PLC4X more known and to support the community.

Greetings Matthias

________________________________
Von: Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2020 13:23:42
An: dev@plc4x.apache.org
Betreff: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Hi all,

So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this thread.

I’ll start:

Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.

Chris

AW: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by "Strljic, Matthias Milan" <ma...@isw.uni-stuttgart.de>.

Hi,

Before that I completed a study in software engineering. My main programming language would be Java, but I already had a lot of stacks in my hands (Javascript, C++, Python, Go, C#, Ada, PHP).

I like to sharpen knives and sometimes distil some schnapps. So if someone wants to forget a bug, you can choose between 40 - 80% alcohol content and 5 flavours ;) If Toddy leaves some.

Greetings Matthias

________________________________
Von: Christofer Dutz <ch...@c-ware.de>
Gesendet: Dienstag, 5. Mai 2020 13:23:42
An: dev@plc4x.apache.org
Betreff: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Hi all,

So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this thread.

I’ll start:

Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.

Chris

Re: [Introduction] Christofer Dutz

Posted by Łukasz Dywicki <lu...@code-house.org>.

Hi all,
Thank you for your stories, great project. I had luck to meet many of
you personally, which I consider a luck given current circumstances.

My name is Łukasz Dywicki, born at 1E.C.7C1 in small polish city.
Privately father and husband. Technician/ironworker by formal education.
I've tried to study computer science twice. Stuck at 2nd year since then.
My first computer was somewhere around 1999 (AMD with 266 MHz clock). I
started doing some HTML in 2002 cause I demaged operating system and
could not fix it. :-) I was too scarred to tell my parents, so had to
keep impression that computer is working. Later I began writing scripts
in PHP. When I finished school in 2005 I imediatelly started working as
web programmer.

Self employeed since December 2008. Apache committer since 2010. Between
2010 and 2017 I did contracts to various companies abroad, primarily
with Apache middleware projects such as Karaf, Camel, CXF, ActiveMQ. I
worked for telecoms, banks, insurance a spent 3 years around billing
data analytics and system integration.
Software integration is my passion.

I can't remember now, how I found Chris now, but I kept an eye on the
PLC4X project since its early beginning. When I saw, how hardware
integration looks I like, I come to the point that it is still a pain
compared to IT. Since Industrie 4.0 is mainly about computerization of
manufacturing I took my bet on it. I'm here because 3 years ago I was
exhausted by consulting and selling my own time. I want to build a
product which realizes "plug & play" concept in a secure way for
machinery, using a form know from the consumer market.

All my small contributions so far are result of my own commitment. I
believe that PLC4X is the best tool available on the market for what it
was invented.

I live now close to Warsaw, which was my base since long time. My
non-computer activities are usually around maintenance of a house,
giving my head and body a pleasure of exercises.

Best!
Łukasz

On 05.05.2020 13:23, Christofer Dutz wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have noticed that our tram has grown quite a bit in the last year and most of you I have never met personally.
> We have been discussing a lot of things here on the list and on slack, but I only have little background on who you folks actually are.
> 
> So I would like to ask anyone interested to just introduce himself in this thread.
> 
> I’ll start:
> 
> My name is Christofer Dutz, I’m currently 42 years old and studied computer-science at the University of Darmstadt.
> I’m the son of an Electro-Engineer and therefore already had contact with all of this automation stuff when I was a kid, but somehow lost contact when I discovered my interest in computers.
> 
> Being an IT guy living near Frankfurt (Germany) there is almost no chance to not work for Banks and Insurance companies. So I guess I’ve been working for about 12 different Banks and Insurance companies in the last 15 years. I always like to compare working for a bank like asking Picasso to paint a portrait, but to have him wear a mental-institution restraining jacket and have him paint with a brush in his mouth. End of the first quarter of 2017 it was getting so unbearable for me, that I was thinking about giving up my profession as an IT specialist and even starting to learn something new. I was already looking for companies looking for an apprentice as carpenter, when I had another round of self-reflection. Even if I probably would have been good as a carpenter, I still love doing my job, just not for Banks and Insurance companies.
> I was seeing the same with a lot of my colleagues.
> 
> It was that time that Industry 4.0 was everywhere … all the problems are easily addressable with open-source and a lot of the skills I have from the banking would have been a perfect match. So I had a look at what’s missing in this big picture and pretty quickly noticed the data-access problem is the biggest barrier and no solution being available or in sight.
> 
> Luckily at codecentric we have something called “Innovation budget”. Here if you’ve got an idea, you can pitch in some shark-tank-like session with the board and if they like it, you get the funds for doing that. My idea was to build a universal protocol adapter. From the beginning I said I want this to be a true open-source project at Apache. The benefit for codecentric would be to eliminate the barriers to offering IIoT solutions with our large set of professionals in all areas this involves. The board agreed and for the last 3,5 years I have been paid by codecentric to work on Apache PLC4X full-time.
> 
> Outside of the IT world, I love to do sports with others, so I’m usually in the gym in some workout and TaeBo courses about 3 times a week, I love snowboarding and everything that has anything to do with water.
> 
> Another huge passion of mine is melodic electronic music, so usually I travel around the Europe visiting different electronic music festivals.
> 
> I live in a town called Ober-Ramstadt together with my girlfriend Tanja, where we just moved into a house I inherited from my grandpa and which we renovated in 2 years of hard work … and still the work doesn’t end … so some-times I fall off the face of the earth for a few days cause I’m probably digging trenches for the foundation for some wall, or my rain-water system, or … or … or …. Guess the digging never stops.
> 
> 
> Ok … so I hope this gives you a little impression on who I am and what drives me … it would make me happy to see some of you folks also introduce yourself. And I would even more love to have a beer with you (Or, as I’m a hessian … a big glass of apple wine) 😉
> 
> 
> Chris
>