Today is the first full day of summer vacation in the Marsh household.  Each of the kids have a few wonderfully empty days before our summer schedule kicks in, with travel, visitors, summer camp, and some fun summer school programs.  Of course, for us fully-employed parents it just seems the work schedule hits full on during the summer.

With today’s economy though, full employment and security in your profession is increasingly rare.  We know many people impacted by the downturn, looking for new opportunities both within their current position, and in far too many cases whole new professions.

We at WSO2 feel fortunate to be weathering the downturn well – although there’s nothing “cheap” about the way our software performs, the Open Source label has attracted many new customers that are looking for lower cost options.

WSO2 also has a strong tradition of community service within Sri Lanka, from regular fundraising for local charity groups to responding to the Tsunami and other disasters around the world with an open source disaster management system still going strong today.  We wanted to help people caught in today’s global economic disaster in whatever small way we could.

Introducing WSO2’s SOA Summer School.

WSO2 has put together an eight-week series of free online SOA training events, to help enterprise architects and developers acquire or hone their skills and become more valuable to their employers or prospective employers.  The curriculum covers SOA architectural patterns, deployment patterns, security, governance, mashups, business process management, and much more.  Check out the whole schedule and register at the WSO2 training site.

And the best part, is that the whole program is FREE.  Our gift back to the global SOA community.  So far the response has been fantastic!

This sure makes me proud to work at WSO2.