OSCON 2010 was a very interesting and inspiring mix of independent developers and large companies.

We encountered very cool technology and some impressive talent from around the world. We’re glad to have participated at the Silver Sponsor level because it gave us a chance to interact with most all of the attendees and participants on some level. Here are the highlights from the show:

• We met with several companies who are pioneering processes to ingest, analyze, and regurgitate quality information from TB’s of raw data stored remotely. Learning about these truly impressive database analytics projects helped us realize that significant change is on the horizon for advertising and medical industries.
• Jon Johns at O’Reilly invested a generous amount of time interacting with us. He helped shed light on the sense of purpose and spirit that embodies the open-source community. He’s a very passionate individual and really helped us embrace the foundational idea of open source – doing something as an individual or team that can change the world in degrees.
• We met a 12-year old webmaster.  How cool is that?
• Our booth looked GREAT. Our marketing team did a bang up job on the graphics and messaging.
• Our schwag (custom printed toilet paper and casino-quality playing cards) produced a reaction, and what more could you ask from inanimate objects?

Overall, it was a fun and rewarding show. The FireHost crew stayed insanely busy, but at the end of the day, we’d do OSCON again.