Many of you are probably expecting me to say something about my new venture, Piston. You might be expecting some discussion of the Rackspace acquisition of Anso Labs, or why I left Anso. In fact, you might (quite reasonably) be expecting me to talk about why I left NASA.
Too bad.
Have I lost my passion for open source, open data, open science or open government?
Certainly not.
I’m still on the OpenStack Project Oversight Committee, and I plan on kicking ass, now more than ever. At the same time, I have never seen a conflict between a capitalist agenda, and a social agenda – and I’ve now got a great occasion to prove that.
While I was tripping around Italy over new years, I had a chance to tour Pompeii with my children. It’s a great place to pause for a moment and appreciate permanence, and the idea of building something to last.
What are *you* working on? If it was dug out of the ashes 1,000 years from now, would you feel proud of it?
