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Cherokee Summit Big Success

This is the first chance I have to write something since the Cherokee Summit finished a couple of days ago. I have been trying to make up my mind about what to write regarding the event, and I must say I have failed to do so. I have too many things to talk about. There were too many interesting conversations, too many people giving talks about successful Cherokee deployments, discussions about the Cherokee 2.0 roadmap and our upcoming marketing efforts. There were those awesome community open sessions where we discussed about every single subject the Cherokee community proposed (with streaming and bridges to IRC and Twitter). I could talk for hours about all those things.

However, do you know what impressed me the most? Energy. The amazing amount of energy that the attendees brought to the conference. It was both totally amazing and exhausting! It isn't easy to gather together a group of high-profile IT people (developers, data-center gurus, specialists for government IT departments, entrepreneurs, etc), but when you do, and they are motivated about a project, the outcome is really unbelievable.

The Cherokee Summit has been a huge success. However, I must confess I could not even imagine it'd be such an amazing experience. Seriously. It surpassed my highest expectations in almost every way.

So now, after having enjoyed such a great experience, it's time to focus again. We have a whole lot of things to do, features to implement, bugs to fix.. and, Community to make. At the end of the day, that's the most important thing: the Community around the project.

We are currently uploading some pictures of the event. Hopefully we'll get the videos of all the talks in the website soon. Most likely it'll take us a few days though.