The Open Source Goat Rodeo did its 2009 edition at Alta and Snowbird, Utah, on March 26 to 28, with a great group of executives from the open-source business community.
The snow was fantastic. The food was amazing. The friends? Even better.
Open Source Goat Rodeo 2009.
OSGR2009 included the following fine folks: Matt Asay, Alfresco/CNET; Larry Augustin, Investor; Jay Batson, Acquia; Jeff Borek, IBM; Dries Buytaert, Acquia; Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol; Tom Erickson, Acquia; Lonn Johnston, Page One PR; Paolo Juvara, Openbravo; Matt Mattox, Red Hat; Josep Mitja, Openbravo; Jose Morales, Jaspersoft; Mike Olson, Cloudera; John Robb, Yahoo/Zimbra; Bryce Roberts, O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures; Dave Rosenberg, RiverMuse/CNET; Andrew Shafer, Reductive Labs/Puppet; Javier Soltero, Hyperic; Jacob Taylor, formerly SugarCRM; Zack Urlocker, Sun/MySQL.
Join us in 2010.
I wasn't able to blog yesterday, as the Open Source Goat Rodeo kicked off its 2009 edition at Snowbird with amazing snow, bright sunshine, and wonderful people (some of whom can shred snow as if they never actually go to work...Lars/John/Paolo/Bryce, I'm thinking of you!):
From left: Jay Batson (Acquia), Dries Buytaert (Acquia), Lonn Johnston (Page One PR), Lars Nordwall (Pentaho), Jeff Borek (IBM)
(Credit: Larry Augustin)The day ended in Salt Lake City with a Mormon Mousse Pie (Don't ask), consisting of white chocolate, dark chocolate, and milk chocolate mousse fillings, white chocolate shavings, and a dark chocolate crust that I improvised early Friday morning.
(Credit:
Matt Asay/CNET)
One great part of the first day for me, other than skiing with some amazing athletes and even better friends, was the chance to relive my youth and get more air than was good for me off the Peruvian Express lift:
Matt Asay gets air at Snowbird
(Credit: Lars Nordwall)OSGR2009 included the following fine folks: Matt Asay, Alfresco/CNET; Larry Augustin, Investor; Jay Batson, Acquia; Jeff Borek, IBM; Dries Buytaert, Acquia; Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol; Tom Erickson, Acquia; Lonn Johnston, Page One PR; Paolo Juvara, Openbravo; Matt Mattox, Red Hat; Josep Mitja, Openbravo; Jose Morales, Jaspersoft; Mike Olson, Cloudera; John Robb, Yahoo/Zimbra; Bryce Roberts, O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures; Dave Rosenberg, RiverMuse/CNET; Andrew Shafer, Reductive Labs/Puppet; Javier Soltero, Hyperic; Jacob Taylor, formerly SugarCRM; Zack Urlocker, Sun/MySQL.
Video forthcoming...soon.
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This past weekend some of the open sourcerors descended on Park City, Utah for two days of skiing, discussion, and pie. Somewhere in the midst of the fun we dubbed it "The Open Source Goat Rodeo," or OSGR. Maybe it was our frustrated attempts to get off that massive cornice....
I've been meaning to have a group of open source friends out to ski for many years. In fact, OSBC was originally planned to take place in Park City, Utah. I finally got around to making the invitations, and Larry Augustin (Augustin Ventures), Jeff Borek (IBM), Fabrizio Capobianco (Funambol),Richard Daley (Pentaho), Marc Fleury (ex-Jboss), Lonn Johnston (PageOne PR), Ross Mason (MuleSource), John Robb (Zimbra /Yahoo!), Bryce Roberts (O'Reilly Alpha Tech Ventures), and Zack Urlocker (MySQL / Sun) joined in.
It was a great way to spend two days. It was some of the most interesting conversation I've had in a long, long time. I can't wait for 2009.
Tune in below to learn about Larry Augustin's home-based data center, why Marc Fleury likes Spikesource, the future of Linux on the desktop, and more.
Want to join us? Learn the secret lasso maneuver.
You'll also need to learn to shred like John Robb. Everyone skied well, but John was amazing. That guy can ski anything. (As for you, Ross Mason, you need to learn to ski by next year so that we won't have to slum with boarders. ;-)
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