Demo Redux: OpenStack installer SXSW demo of Chef + Crowbar
If you missed the OpenStack installer demo at Cloud Connect Event then you’ll have another chance to see us go from bare iron to provisioning VMs in under 30 minutes at SXSW on Monday 3/14 from 2-4 pm...
View ArticleSXSWi bound thanks to GM & Chevy Volt
I’ll be blogging from SXSWi over the next few days as a guest of the Chevy Volt team AND they’ve given me a Volt to drive for the week (disclaimer: total cash value of $1150). I’ve been in Austin for...
View ArticleSXSW Volt hard to give up – this is the EV that my family wants me to buy
Today Chevy took my SXSW loaner Volt back to the dealership in the cloud. While I was already inclined toward the Volt, I was much more impressed that I expected. Frankly, the fact that the Volt and...
View ArticleCreating Communities: the intersection between Twitter celebrities and open...
One of the unexpected perks of my Chevy SXSW experience was access to some real social media celebrities such as Josh Estrin, Calvin Lee, Kristin Brandt, Doug Mora, Samantha Needham and Jennie Chen....
View ArticleWhat foo is “contribution” to open source? Mik Kersten & Tasktop @ SXSW
How do we really know who influences most in a software project? We can easily track code commits, but there are more bits to the project than the commits. I had the good fortune to attend Mik...
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