[LINK] Report on CloudCamp
Roger Clarke
Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Wed Oct 13 15:32:33 AEDT 2010
A 'Cloudcamp' was held at NICTA's office in Canberra this afternoon:
http://www.cloudcamp.org/canberra/2010-10-13
It was billed as an unconference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference
There were about 40 attendees, few of us under 40.
Not exactly a hotbed of young, driving innovators, I thought to meself.
The 5-minute 'Lightning Talks' to kick it off turned out to be
spruiks, mostly by the sponsors (although fortunately two
well-known-corporate-name sponsors hadn't sent anyone).
They stayed on-message, intellectually unambitious, safe.
Since neologisms are important, let's dub them 'unenLightning Talks'.
An impromptu definition of cloud computing half-way through the Talks
was an inaudible mumble, and the diagram on the butcher's paper was
unseeable from mid-audience. It seemed uncharitable to ask for a
re-run, particularly since the audience had already said it knew what
CC was.
The prevailing interpretation of Cloud among the unenLightning
Talkers appeared to be specifically SaaS - which appears to be
indistinguishable from what used to be called application service
provision (ASP).
After an hour, with zero interaction, I'd noted a single comment that
had been worth having (by the facilitator, Kiwi Ben, no surname
evident). Embellished, it was this:
The increasing use by many people of multiple devices
is a major stimulant for separation of {data, {maybe
applications}} from user-devices.
Ben then formed a semi-random panel from the audience, with the
intention of getting something moving.
Things didn't look like getting any better, and I figured I could
make a lot more progress for me, and maybe even humankind, by being
somewhere else.
</miserable old bastard grizzle>
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Roger Clarke http://www.rogerclarke.com/
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Visiting Professor in Computer Science Australian National University
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