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One of these days, I may get to see a keynote. Hoping my 6th Summit will
be the charm. Pesky booth set-up.


 
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On 2/8/16, 11:41 AM, "Claire Massey" <claire at openstack.org> wrote:

>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:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> :)
>> 
>> Niki Acosta
>> Cloud Evangelist
>> Cisco Intercloud Services
>> (e) nikacost at cisco.com
>> (c) (+1) 512-912-6716
>> (t) @nikiacosta 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 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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