LISA: done!
LISA’07 is over, and just concluded with a great talk about “Cooking at the Keyboard”, which of course I liked a lot, being this one of my favorite hobbies!
This was my first LISA conference, and I had an all-round experience, giving an invited talk, hosting a BoF and speaking during the Hit The Ground Running track. Of those three the most fun has been the HTGR talk, in which I quickly summarized the Ganeti platform in 10′ and was able to answer a few questions in the last 5′. I definitely liked giving the invited talk, and I think the idea my teammates had to not just talk but actually give a live demo of our platform was very successful, even if it took some time and effort to prepare. The BoF was nice because it gave people chance to give more feedback and to talk about their ideas, it’s probably the session I learned more from. The slides for the talk are on the conference page, and the ones for HTGR will be soon!
Globally it’s been a very intense week of talks, sessions, hallway chats, work and fun, and I definitely hope to be at LISA’08, next November in San Diego (it’s a bit like going back home, isnt it?)! I’m really glad to have come and want really to thank all the people who made this possible and all the people I met here, who made this event so good!