Throwback Thursday: 1st OpenStack Summit in Austin (July 2010)

On July 7, 2010, I received the above email.  In hindsight, this note effectively changed the landscape of cloud computing forever.  I was one of 3 Canonical employees in attendance (Nick Barcet, Neil Levine) and among a number former colleagues (Theirry Carrez, Soren Hansen, Rick Clark) at the first OpenStack Design Summit at the Omni hotel in Austin, Texas, in July of 2010.

These are the only pictures I snapped with my phone (metadata says it was an HTC Hero) of the event, which, almost unbelievably fit entirely within a single conference room :-)

The "fishbowl" round table discussion format was modeled after Ubuntu Developer Summits.

It was so much fun to see so many unfamiliar, non-Ubuntu people using the fishbowl discussion format.

Also borrowed from Ubuntu Developer Summits was the collaborative, community-sourced note taking in Etherpad-Lite.

Breakfast, in the beautiful Omni lobby.

Lots of natural light, but thankfully, air conditioned.  By the way, does anyone have pictures from the 120^oF Whole Foods roof top event?

My, my, my, how far we've come in 6 short years!

This month's OpenStack Summit returns to Austin, Texas, and fills the entire Austin Convention Center, and overflows into at least two nearby hotels, with 5,000+ OpenStack developers, users, and enthusiasts!

In fact, if you're reading this post on insights.ubuntu.com, you're being served by Wordpress and MySQL hosted on a production Ubuntu OpenStack at Canonical.

Welcome back home, OpenStack!

:-Dustin