With all of 40 minutes of shut eye, I have just enough time to post a last minute update. It has been an intense two days. During my time here I’ve made some great new friends and set the seeds for many new opportunities. I have a new set of action items to add to my to do list. When I get back to the SNAP Development Center I’ll have to remain focused to make those seeds grow into real positive impact for the project.

What has this been like? Every chance I got I sat beside or stood beside or followed people that I wanted to meet and introduce myself and the project. Although it is kind of a challenge to context switch between the meeting people mode, the analyzing information mode, and the blogging mode. Conferences just provide enough time to fit everything in. This is probably why I got maybe 11 hours sleep over the past three days.

I set a goal for myself of meeting 5% of attendees. According to Matt Asay there were 700 attendees at the Open Source Business Conference. I didn’t quite make it, but I think between the people I talked with and those I exchanged business cards I came pretty close. More importantly, some of the contacts I have made should be very strategic for the project.

Well it is off to the airport to fly 4,000 miles back home. It should be real fun. The cold I developed coming here, plus the lack of sleep, has really come on strong this morning. Well at least I made it through the show without it really slowing me down. Looking forward to take off to shut my eyes for a while.