I finally had gotten back from the conference late in the evening on Friday, airport security was not fun at all. It was the first Open Repositories conference that I had attended, the community seems to be pretty tightly knit. There were two or three software stacks which were presented that looked useful. Things such as Fedora-Commons, Hydra and a few other sub-components which were talked about are going to be likely building blocks that we will be using for our Digital Repository.
There was also a developer challenge which I decided to enter at the last minute, it was both a new and interesting experience at presenting something that wasn’t well prepared to an audience that I had no experience with either. By the way, I was a team of one! I had proposed the idea that replicating data can be expensive and bad, there are alternatives to just copying files around en-mass and storing replicas left right and centre.
I promised I would post some photos, but it seems my photos aren’t as interesting as the ones that other people took. See http://www.flickr.com/groups/or2012/.
Next year Open Repositories will be held in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I will need to be better prepared next year (assuming I go).