They morphed their high end concept stuff into smart meeting room and team collaboration tool platform called Mezzanine (- see http://www.oblong.com/) which is sold into large enterprise class customers e.g IBM, SAP, Accenture, NASA, GE etc.

I kept imagining the kind of BS the actors are talking about the fake graphics.

Congrats on 1.0 - how does Flynn compare to say BOSH (see BOSH.io)?

BOSH operates at a lower level, working with VMs. Flynn is higher level and allows deployment and management of applications and databases in containers.

Instead of relying on a lower layer like BOSH, Flynn is self-bootstrapping and self-hosting. It runs everything except the container runner in containers managed by the platform. The same APIs and tools are used to manage user applications and Flynn components.

For more information, check out our Architecture page: https://flynn.io/docs/architecture

You can bring your own lower level infrastructure, like IaaS or bare metal. There is a cloud installer that can spin up a cluster to try out on EC2, Azure, or Digital Ocean, but most production users are using whatever management tools they are comfortable with to deploy and scale Flynn hosts out.

Also, what's the difference to dokku or deis?

Both Dokku and Deis focus on stateless webapps.

Dokku is explicitly single-host. Flynn can run in a single-host configuration but typically deployed in a highly available configuration with three or more hosts.

Flynn is designed to tackle some much bigger problems and supports running and managing highly available databases inside the platform out of the box in addition to stateless web apps.

As Titanous said, BOSH operates at a lower level than Flynn. You could use BOSH to deploy Flynn, hypothetically. A more direct comparison would be Cloud Foundry.

ProcessCraft : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAYW-4ZM7p4

but all theming and look and feel was done internally by ShowGen i believe. Its a nice looking app though.

Been very lucky to work with great teams on a bunch of stuff as dev and prod manager including: - distributed simulation platforms -3D/VR authoring tools used by likes of Boeing and Airbus(amongst others) - Search engine for non-proprietary(ie generic) drugs used by intergovernmental, governmental, NGO and pharma companies - 3D Minimal invasive surgical training platform (used to train 10,000+ surgeons todate) - Road Traffic simulations - Real time autonomous mobile robots - VR data gloves and a variety of sensors for all sorts of things. A lot of fun stuff.

If you use Fossil and use Kanban type pm tools, Steve Landers presentation is well worth watching:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhqA98SNXGM

Overall, this looks like a very promising addition to Fossil and hopefully will get into the core release eventually.

There are long term studies of unemployed in multiple countries that have social safety nets that would be worth reviewing (for example: http://amzn.to/1nosUtx Cultures of Unemployment: A Comparative Look at Long-Term Unemployment and Urban Poverty published by Amsterdam University press in 2006) For many the impact of unemployment (for instance following closure of UK coal mining and steel industries) its not just the loss of job in the economic sense, but the disconnect from the workplace, community, changes in sense of self-worth for individuals and long term cultural and regional impact. There are proven strategies that work and lots of examples that failed. Learning from these and seeing which opportunities map to actions that start-ups can effect through mobile, social and learning technologies might be a useful starting point.

If you are interested in Cygwin - try Babun. http://babun.github.io/ its a prepackaged Cygwin with a great command line and good package management.

Be interesting to see if there are plans to integrate with BioKepler(http://www.biokepler.org/) or similar existing bioinformatics and lifescience workflow systems.