OpenDaylight and OpenStack: Now With Helium!

This is just a quick post to note that the devstack support for OpenDaylight was recently updated to use the Helium release of OpenDaylight. For anyone who wants to pull down devstack and have it spin-up Neutron with OpenDaylight, you will now get the latest and greatest OpenDaylight release as a part of this. My blog post on how to use this is still relevant, so if you’re looking for instructions please look there.
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Engineering Artifacts Themselves Are No Longer the Source of Sustainable Advantage and/or Innovation

My good friend Dave Meyer just wrote a great blog post at SDN Central available here. A key point which Dave makes is this: Dave is spot on with his analysis here. We need to stop thinking about artifacts as being only things such as installable software, firmware images, or even pieces of hardware. In the Open Source world, the community is an artifact. Vibrant mailing lists filled with discussion are artifacts.
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