I am glad I decided to go after all. Family and community pressures almost kept me at home but I was able to be at LDAPCon 2009 for all but the very last session (sorry, Ludo!). It was a great event. I think we were all delighted that so many movers and shakers came together. After an uncharacteristically quiet first few minutes, the room lit up and it was among the most concentrated group of contributors of all types I’ve been in in many years. I’m hoping that lots of the attendees will blog about the convention and give us all lots of different views.
Most of the papers and slides are posted on the LDAPCon 2009 Web site linked off the pages for each speaker … Marty
Jordan was most disappointed he didn’t come. I found out too late that Howard and I could have brought him on Southwest 
The most important thing about the conference for me was that so many of the LDAP community chose to come and participate. In addition to that deep line-up of speakers from various projects and companies, we had representatives from Apple and Cisco (Samba Team) so most of the active community was represented. We were disappointed that Red Hat/Fedora chose not to attend and were sorry that Microsoft didn’t send someone at least to listen but that’s the industry for you.
It was great to have OpenLDAP and OpenDS giving a joint presentation … and OpenDS and ApacheDS working together on APIs. The collaboration level is going up and that is a good thing.
Thanks to all who came and let’s hope we can pull a convention together in 2010!
