OpenWest 2015
6 - 9 May 2015 at Utah Valley University

The topic was interesting but I don't remember it very well a week later. I'll have to review the slides to see if it is something I will be able to use.

The topic was very high level but was perfect for me since I had no experience and that was what I was looking for. Would be great to have the slides posted here to review.

The badge project was lots of fun and I enjoyed learning to solder. The people in the room were very helpful but the room was definitely crowded. I worked on mine during Friday's keynote but it was almost impossible to hear the speaker even though it was streaming into the room.

I know Vim a little bit and tried to follow along on my laptop. He went really fast and copied and pasted all the commands so it was impossible to keep up but I did learn a lot. He was definitely an entertaining presenter and knows a ton about the topic, but could definitely slow down just a little for those of us trying to follow along. I'm going to go through the slides and see if I can catch the stuff I missed.

As close to exactly what I was looking for as one could hope.

Very well presented. Jacob has obviously been in the trenches and warned of things to watch out for.

Being fairly new to the concept, this talk opened my eyes to how much more useful my vagrant setups could be. Centralized provisioning scripts with puppet... or salt ;) ...yes please.

Very well presented.

An excellent talk. Addressed the subject well, and balanced inclusion of practical concerns along with the higher-level nature of software architectural content.

This talk was good, although I had hoped for a little bit more. The focus on how the presenters sold the idea to their bosses of letting them develop an open source project management tool was overly limited in applicability. More focus on what the factors that need to be balanced when pitching open source within a business would have been good, the details provided weren't really that deep.

Most developers, and teams, would have a tough time selling the idea of building an open source solution for something as generic as project management within a business. There are already so many commercial and open source options. From a technical manager's standpoint I would have appreciated more time with how to sell taking private code and making it open source, since there are plenty of paths in which that transition can make excellent business sense.

Again, the talk was good; but, not great.