First Brussels CloudCamp

Yesterday, I attended the first CloudCamp in Belgium, which was
held in Brussels. It was at a very
nice venue, and the attending and presenting crowd was of very high
quality.

There was much to be seen and more to be learnt. However… it wasn’t an
unconference at all. Yes, at the end of the schedule there was a piece
left “unscheduled”, but that time was wholly consumed at the bar.

Oh, wait… so maybe it was an unconference after all then… :-)

I especially enjoyed the talk of Raphaël in which he stressed the need
for openness in the cloud, as that is exactly what made the Internet such a
success. If the “cloud” is willing to turn into this next layer on top of the
Internet, it indeed will have to make sure that it’s as open as can be.
Otherwise, all we’ll get is another useless network like we have today with the
mobile phone network and it’s few übermasters.

By the way… MyOwnDB is as open as can be! ;-)