GigaOm’s Structure08 event is a wrap. It was an amazing turnout of people in the next-generation infrastructure world, and a packed day of panels and discussions.
I had my computer and phone off most of the time, since I was announcing speakers and moderating panels for much of the day. So I’m now scouring the net to see how we did.

• Here’s what Twitter had to say about it.
• Here’s Serph’s view of the event.
• Some photos of the event on Flickr.
• DCK wrote up some of the content
• Andy Abramson was pretty enthusiastic…
• The Register covered it well. They wrote pieces on Werner Vogels’ keynote, Google’s openness with App Engine, and Utility Computing’s “dirty little secret” (hint: it’s software licensing.)
• GigaOm’s Liz Gannes and Katie Fehrenbacher were furiously liveblogging the event.
• Readwriteweb wrote a great piece on cloud operations.
• Dan Farber, who covered Structure for CNET, wrote several pieces on the sessions.

I was incredibly lucky to have great panelists for panels on cloud platforms. While most of the discussions were fairly pragmatic, we did of course invent some new terms:

• “Bare metal” clouds: Clouds that aspire to nothing more than giving you root more economically.
• “Little Fluffy Clouds” (thanks to The Orb) after Tony Lucas referred to “Loving clouds” as those clouds which really want to do no evil.
• A cloud user’s bill of rights, which would outline portability and so on.
• “Cloudbursting”, the idea that an enterprise private cloud might burst into the public cloud temporarily.

I wish I’d known that Facebook was hiccuping while I was talking with the scaling panel, particularly since we had Jonathan Heiliger with us.

Then a dozen of us headed to an excellent pub on Haight and stayed up until far too late. Great end to a great couple of weeks in the Bay Area. Now, as the Spirit of the West say, it’s home for a rest. But I leave you with this.