How the weekend flew by (and the time prepping for it!). In no particular order * Overall great conference, Aeolus demos went perfectly (was cool to show our tool being used to address some of the problems w/ the cloud other presenters were talking about), promoted the project extensively (handing out stickers), and got interesting perspectives * Perhaps the most notable is that openstack isn't the clear victor in the cloud wars, there were fans / users of many different implementations including oVirt. The cloud is so new, and any implementation specific to one way of doing things, so there is alot of uncertainty. I feel Aeolus fits perfectly into resolving this * Citrix sponsored the Build Your Own Cloud day, and said they'd love to work w/ us to build support for their cloudstack api in our tools. They are also having a conference in Vegas this november and invite any contributors / users of our project to attend and/or present. * The puppet team seemed to be a fan of vagrant / leveraging this more for the puppet infra: http://vagrantup.com/ (they are going to be expanding it beyond virtualbox) * Brought my desktop to act as an external cloud resource (from the perspective of aeolus on my laptop) during the presentations, but should've brought a small travel-dolly to carry it with! (nbd, was able to stash it away in the secure operations room) * Found out about a relatively new postgres feature that is gaining some popularity, dblink the ability to link local tables to data in external databases: http://www.postgresonline.com/journal/archives/44-Using-DbLink-to-access-... * I pointed people to our community resources, and told people that they could just shout out via the list or irc if there were any questions or any way we could help them out to use the software. Be sure to be on the lookout for those and please help out if you can. There were a couple of other things, will make sure to pass along anything notable to the relevant parties. Will also share the video of my talk when it becomes available. -Mo