It’s always nice to visit family for a while, and see how the kids have grown.  FUDCon Blacksburg felt an awful lot like a family reunion — except one with a lot more learnin’ going on.  Just a small part of what I learned:

* ARM is coming.  Raspberry Pi is cool, and there’s way cooler down the road.  We’re working on our first little event kit that Eucalyptians will be able to use for demos at some point.  Right now it’s three laptops.  In a couple of years, it’s likely to be a laptop and a half-dozen itty bitty ARM systems.

* Talked with Seth and Smooge about a use case we’d been considering in Fedora-land for a long time: the “community cloud”, in which community members can basically dedicate machines to the Fedora cause.  It’s been a dream scenario for a long time — maybe we’ve got a shot at making it reality with Euca’s help.  Each contributed machine could become the equivalent of an “availability zone”, essentially.  Could be an interesting way of provisioning a lot of build systems in a pinch, and so on.  We’ll see how things shake out.