Sacré Trail des Collines

Sacré Trail des Collines http://www.trailcollines.com/
Tullins
35km - 1500m D+

Almost no road. Very nice organisation. Nice gift from RaidLight too: http://www.raidlight.com/. But worse weather condition ever encountered.

The rain came much sooner than expected, along with hail, snow and some wind. It is not that high, less than 800m. I though that it was not really "mountain", so I decided to go light with only two cotton tee-shirt :-)  I didn't know I could shake like this: almost impossible to drink a cup of tea.

Lastly, I cannot exactly know my "performance", due to some bug, but around 4h30 supposedly. The nice thing is that they offered me the fee for the next year.

Trail du Prelenfrey

21km du Trail de Prelenfrey Le Gua 2011: http://www.traildugerbier-prelenfrey.com/test/

Excellente organisation, un peu de boue, pas trop chaud: impec.

Classement: 2h26, soit 33 min derrière le premier.

28/100 en général.

9 /32 de ma catégorie.

La prochaine fois je pars plus vite et je sers bien mes lacets ... j'aurais pu gagner 5 places.

Grenoble Networking and Association

There are a number of Association related to computer at large in Grenoble. I find it sad that they seems very disconnected. Here is a list if you know more don't hesitate to post comments.
These ones are technical and philosophical oriented:

• The Guilde I guess it is the oldest association. It is about Free Software. They have monthly conference.
• AlpesJUG a Java User Group association. Also 99,9% Open Source. Monthly conference.
• LOG Laboratoire Ouvert Grenoblois  is a HackerSpace
• CARA  "Club Agile Rhône Alpes" about Agile methodologies and Lean.
• ACONIT, association pour un conservatoire de l'informatique et de la télématique: About computer museum, but also funny events organization and reflexions about teaching.
• Macintosh Alpes Club  about the Apple platform. It seems to be oriented towards professional activities. Monthly conference.
• CCSTI (CENTRE de CULTURE SCIENTIFIQUE TECHNIQUE et INDUSTRIELLE) about culture and science at large. Not only about computer.

The following are more business oriented:

• Grilog is an association to promote entrepreneurship and business around software in Grenoble. Like better synergy between research and industry or helping start-up. They have a huge number of partners.
• ADIRA : Association pour le Développement de l'Informatique en région Rhône-Alpes They could add more associations to their list.

Not an association, but still: Grenoble Alpes Incubation (GR-A-IN) encourages creation of innovative start ups. Has members, but may not be an "association", seems that it is a french peculiarity: "public incubators".
On LinkedIN there is also a "Grenoble Network" group.
I am sure that I miss many association. I know that they have different goals and they may not want to be part of some network. But I feel that we are missing something, being so disconnected.