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This edition was held in Paris and, among other things, featured the best food I’ve ever had in a conference hall. Yes, OpenStack was quite a boondoggle for many people, for years. I hung out with some friends, participated in a hair-raising session about the OpenStack community (20+ contributing companies, each with its own fork… Continue reading OpenStack Summit 2014

I attended this with Jonas Thaler for the second time. Not sure what the excuse was, but the reason was that I wanted to go. As usually happens, I managed to make myself useful by introducing people to each other – above, Jonas meets Jonathan King. You might also like: South by Southwest, 2009

Two days of conferences organized by me. These took place at the Children’s Creativity Museum in San Francisco, deliberately on the same dates that Oracle Open World was being held next door at Moscone Center – I was surprised that Oracle hadn’t pre-emptively rented the Museum themselves. You might also like: The last Sun Tech Days,… Continue reading ZFS Day and illumos Day 2012

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I think this was the last event I worked for Sun/Oracle, in early November 2010 – I resigned right after Thanksgiving later that month. Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro gave a birds-of-a-feather session, the only video that survives from that event (though I had filmed an entire day of Solaris-related talks). You might also like: Oracle… Continue reading LISA 10