A belated ApacheCon Review

I’m really behind on blogging about recent events, so I figured I’d start at the beginning: ApacheCon US 2009 which was held at the beginning of the month in Oakland California. Others have already done great roundups of the event. So here are just a few notes of my own.

Some of the highlights of the event for me was actually attending sessions. For the last couple of ApacheCons, I’ve been too busy with websites, board issues and other nonsense to actually be able to sit in on many sessions. This year I specifically made a point of sitting through the Hadoop track and NoSQL meet-ups. I also spent a fair bit of the conference getting my head around Apache Sling enough to start contributing back some documentation. If you haven’t checked out Sling, you should. While it’s still a little rough around the edges, Sling is a hidden gem at Apache.

I’ve also updated the slides of my Making Sense of Open Source Licenses talk which I think went pretty well.