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I agree! Nate's keynote was one of my all time faves.

> On Feb 8, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Niki Acosta (nikacost) <nikacost at cisco.com> wrote:
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> I think the presentation was fantastic. All the blacked out redacted stuff
> was brilliant, and Nathaneal did a great job speaking. The fact that PRISM
> came out after the fact was actually a positive, as it put more eyeballs
> on that keynote. 
> 
> Not all press is good press, but when you¹re an open source foundation, it
> sure is fun to get free press.
> 
> :)
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>> On 2/8/16, 2:40 AM, "Florian Haas" <florian at hastexo.com> wrote:
>> 
>> One additional point here. I don't know about what others think, but
>> one major government user story we had at a Summit was the NSA, a few
>> months prior to Snowden. I don't think that there's anything the
>> Summit organizers for Portland are to be blamed for, because it wasn't
>> public knowledge at the time that Five Eyes are essentially spying on
>> citizens across the planet. But I can tell you that if *I* had been
>> the one that made the decision at the time to put them on stage, in
>> front of an international community a large portion of which the
>> speaker would be expected to treat as adversaries and targets, I'd be
>> immensely retroactively embarrassed.
>> 
>> Now clearly I don't want to equate national legal tax collection with
>> offensive and indiscriminate global blanket surveillance, but I do
>> believe that any superuser stories, keynotes etc. should receive extra
>> scrutiny and vetting from Summit organizers, particularly when they
>> come from government agencies. In Portland this community was new and
>> not under much media scrutiny, so we got some breaks; I think we don't
>> get those anymore.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Florian
>> 
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>> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 7:28 PM, Matt Jarvis
>> <matt.jarvis at datacentred.co.uk> wrote:
>>> Yep, agree with all your comments, although to be fair they are not
>>> really
>>> engaged with the community so weren't aware about the Summits. They were
>>> planning to blog about it, and I suggested they should submit something.
>>> 
>>> If it had been just another commercial company implementing it, I
>>> wouldn't
>>> have brought it up, but given it's a major world government I thought
>>> it's a
>>> pretty important story for OpenStack adoption.
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