 Next up we've got Guillaume Aboushon from Digital Film Tree. So come on up Guillaume. Have a seat. Mark, good to be here. I can call you Mark, right? Sure. Sweet. It's fine. Whatever you're into, Guillaume, look, you look like somebody, I know you're from Hollywood, you're from TV world, like you just... Piston party last night. Wow. I don't know. You look familiar. I feel like we should be doing this between two ferns. I don't know. I think we should. It just seems like that would be more appropriate. A little something for you. Biggest conference yet? You've got to tip them. 20s now. No more singles. Really? Times have changed. Times have changed. The economy is getting tougher. So what the heck are we doing here? You're doing some open stack thing. Yeah, doing some open stack. Have you ever practiced the ancient art of origami? I can't say that I have. Japanese paper folding. So an open stack is like origami. And you can sort of take a flat sheet of paper and you can fold it into a beautiful crane. And that's like software-defined paper. I see. Let's shape it, mold it, lotus, lotus. It's a big insight. I just came up with that on the bus ride over here from the piston party. So what else can you tell us about open stack? Oddly enough, little known fact, proprietary clouds killed 25,000 people last year. Crushed under the loads of their own servers. You know I love data. I know we could have had a graph, but okay. Sure. Yeah, open clouds? No one killed. Maybe one. Okay. Unconfirmed. Unconfirmed reports. Okay, so anything else that we should be aware of? What goes on in those server rooms of yours? I'm not sure if I actually want to know that I ask it. Yeah, it's a frightening place to be alone at night. But the biggest thing we're introducing this year, really why I'm here and why I feel like the biggest contribution we can make to the community is something we like to call swaths. So that's a sweater as a service. And, you know, IT swaths are swaths, like swaths. Okay. It's sort of South American in its pronunciation. But the swaths, IT professionals are exposed to hypothermia every day in data centers. And we want to make sure that there are sweaters hanging there for them to just grab at a moment's notice. They feel a little bit chilled. They're sitting there and they're like, ah, I'm so cold. I can't write code anymore. They can grab a sweater. Well, hopefully OpenStack has produced enough of this kind of clothing, apparel, if you will, to keep everybody safe. Well, in all seriousness, why don't we actually bid adieu to Zach and hear from Guillaume again? So you actually are in addition to cracking me up backstage. You're also with this company, Digital Film Tree. We heard a bit about what you guys do in Hong Kong. But you're part of how television gets made. You know, what is that exactly? What does Digital Film Tree actually do? We're a full-service television and film post-production facility in Los Angeles. And we take content from camera acquisition throughout that entire finishing process all the way to distribution. So we work on shows like Modern Family, NCIS Los Angeles. We did Her Last Year. And, you know, we're really trying to sort of change the industry in a positive way that I feel will save the industry in many ways. So I know that, you know, you're a smaller company. A lot of people think OpenStack's only for big companies. We were talking about this yesterday and you were very excited about, you know, the fact that a smaller company can be a part of a big mission. You know, how does that, how do you feel about that? Is that true? Yeah. I mean, we stood up our first OpenStack deployment. We only have four people that concentrate on OpenStack. And we stood it up in six months. And OpenStack is now the cornerstone to, you know, almost every television show we do. Including not only an OpenStack instance that we have at DFT, but also on-site instances of OpenStack that we run right in an editorial environment on two of our shows. So you've talked in some of the videos we've seen. Somebody, people may recognize you from, you know, your TV show as well as the videos here. But, you know, what is it about your career that you felt was, you know, possible now? You were saying that, you know, maybe the industry was dying. There was a lot of people predicting its demise. So, you know, how does that change your career trajectory? I read a highly depressing Yahoo! article about four years ago. And it said, the industries that will go away in 10 years. And I went down that list and it was like, print. Okay. Yeah, I could see that going away in 10 years. What are you going to do? And then I got to the bottom of the list and it said, post-production for TV and film. And I was like, aw. Like, I got to find something else to do with my life. There goes that 12 years of a career suite. So, you know, we really felt that by moving in a more software-oriented direction, what we like to call is software-defined post-production. That, you know, we can offer a much higher level of service to the creative professional and really keep post-production services relevant. That's great. So, you know, the tools that your industry uses, you know, I think traditionally they're very expensive. There's a very small community. You know, obviously you're now using an open stack as a big part of your workflow. That's a tool used by a much bigger community. I mean, how is that different in terms of how that makes up your strategy? It makes a tremendous impact in terms of how efficient we can be as a company. You know, using open-source software and being able to reach out to all of these people in the audience to say, hey, have you done this before? Or go to a blog post where somebody's done that before is tremendously beneficial. Prior to this, you know, we were using software that could cost a quarter of a million dollars, and there may only be 30 or other 40 companies that are using that piece of software. You know, your blog, your wiki page, was having the cell phone number of the guy who wrote the software to begin with, because the company who wrote the software is only two people. So, you know... By the way, I have Vish's cell phone number if that's what you're looking for. Absolutely. I will take that any day. But yeah, I mean, we, you know, we really found it tremendously helpful to enter this community and have the support of thousands and thousands of people behind us. So what do you want to see happening in the community moving forward? You're a big part of it now. How do you want to see the community evolve? You know, we've always been tremendous advocates of communication and education in whatever we do, and, you know, I really think the next evolution of OpenStack is really to educate a broader scope of people so that there's a broader spectrum of professionals for us to hire. You know, one of the problems we have, particularly in Los Angeles, is that, you know, we just can't reach out and hire an IT professional who's fluent in OpenStack. It's still sort of highly specialized in that way. So continuing to grow the education efforts are important. Absolutely. Well, thank you very much, Yoam. Appreciate you playing along. Thank you. Everyone in the audience. Go OpenStack! Thank you very much.