It was fun, the good part about T-Dose is that is small enough to actually be able to speak with everybody you want to .. well almost .. there were still some people around I wanted to talk to but I didn't get the chance to . Specially Ber Kessels and Roy Scholten who filled in the gaps in the Drupal track. After my own talk I had to run to the other track so I could answer the tricky questions in our other talk about Open Source Monitoring Tools. And I never really made it back to the Drupal room. So Ber, Roy , next time you run into me I`ll buy you a Beer !
Anyway Pics are up (so Geert now finally has pictures of himself on stage)
Social event pic is also up ..
Slides (Drupal/ Virtualization) were already up
Somehow I had problems seeing al the sessions I wanted to see this year. lots of interesting things happening at the same time and therefore forcing me to choose for specific sessions. JP and Jeroen already announced they will be there again next year .. I just hope to have a better planned Drupal track then ...
T-Dose kind of concluded my current scheduled list of talks , I`m looking for new interesting conference venues to visit .. specially in southern Europe .. so if anybody has ideas :)

The openQRM project has been named a finalist for 3 2006 SourceForge Community Choice Awards. The project is a finalist in the SysAdmin, Enterprise, and Clustering categories. The Winners will be announced at the Slashdot Lounge at LinuxWorld Expo in Boston on April 5th. Thanks to everyone who has participated in the project. Without you nothing would be possible.

Today ITBusinessEdge.com published an interview with me. The interview consist of three questions about the work I’m doing at Qlusters to invent a new future for systems management. While I’m not sure why the word invent is in quotes, they asked a few very good questions. My favorite was “A customer has been quoted as saying that openQRM could become the open standard for data center management. Is that something you are actively seeking for the platform — standardization?”.
Well, as I said, we can’t worry about that. Standardization is conferred by community adoption of a project over a very long period of time. Right now I’m just focused on delivering on the promises I’ve made to the community. If you’re so inclined, you can read the interview online. Please feel free to post comments here with your thoughts on the questions and my responses.

Today my interview with Stephen Feller was published in an article on NewsForge. It was a fairly strait forward interview that I did 90% of from the OSBC conference in San Francisco. The article discusses the release of openQRM to the open source community. However, there is a point into that I would like to debate on a panel at some point in the future.
A research manager at International Data Corporation (IDC), says “many companies are not concerned with licensing and access to source code”. In my humble opinion this is “old world” thinking. I can’t think of one company deploying software today that doesn’t have legal counsel review the license agreement. As far as the access to source code…well in my world that’s prerequisite. You can read the entire article on line.