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Sitting with Michael at New York JFK airport. We are discussing about the trip and about the new things he and his team face once we're back.We have spread almost all of our give aways and hope that all have enjoyed our presentations. Here a short recap of what happened in the last 10 days.

Tuesday, August 5th, Seattle CFUG:
Maya Wallach has initiated this meeting and I would like to thank her for having us. Malcolm O'Keeffe and Matthew Levine from Blueriver accompanied us and did a unfortunately short presentation of their CMS Sava since the total time of our presentations was limited to 2 hours. Since I like to talk and my presentation normally takes longer than 2 hours we had to rush a little. But given the reactions I guess Malcolm, Matt and I did quite well. As in all the presentations I gave before on the tour, next to the Amazon stuff and the Multimedia things, the extension manager received the most attention. I will blogpost about it soon and hope that you all will comment it and help us make it do what it is supposed to do.

Wednesday, August 6th, Salt Lake City CFUG:
Matthew Reinbold invited us to SLC and present in front of the gathered SLC CFUG and Northern Utah CFUG. So we had a crowd of around 30 to 35 people attending the meeting. Many questions came from the attendees and I hope I was able to answer them accordingly. After the meeting we went to a nice place for dinner and answered some more questions of the members. All in all again CFVIDEO, S3 and the extension manager seemed to be the highlights of the night.

Thursday, August 7th, Denver CFUG:
Gene Lewis contacted us in late June to present at the Denver CFUG. We did so in his companies office which attracted around 20 attendees and even one member from Switzerland. So Michael was very glad to speak Swiss German again. The extension manager received much attention and we were able to gather some new ideas for it. So look for one of my next blog entries if you need any additional information regarding it.

Friday, August 8th, Philadelphia CFUG:
In Denver I watched "Rocky Balboa" on Michael's iPod, a perfect preparation for the CFUG meeting in Philadelphia. We had the pleasure of visiting Chris Scott (author of Coldspring) and spend the night in his house. Thank you very much Chris. Even though with Railo we are already at version 3.0, many CFML users do not know us yet. So like almost in every presentation I took the CFUG attendees on a tour through Railo.

Weekend, August 9th and 10th, New York New York was awesome. First time for me and of course the dimensions impressed me a lot. Michael was there several times, so he showed me some of the most impressive things. On Saturday we presented in front of the NY CFUG, hosted by Ben Nadel (http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1316-Gert-Franz-Railo-U-S-Tour-At-The-New-York-ColdFusion-User-Group.htm) and I was very glad that we had some very good questions to answer.
In the first place we wanted to visit Peter Bell and I want to thank him that we could even do more than that by presenting Railo in front of the NY CFUG. Thanks Peter for the efforts. It was a quite small group of 8 attendees watching, but given the fact that it was Saturday the turnout was quite good. If you are not satisfied with 8 attendees, you don't deserve 50 attendees...
Since the Extension Manager received so much attention again, here some small facts about it:

BTW: The image below is just a sketch! It might completely look different in the OS release. It is just to give you a quick idea of how it might look like.

• Every Railo Web Administrator will list all applications uploaded on a providers platform
• Updates and installs can be made with one or two clicks (and of course entering some form values)
• Updates are checked by Railo
• An API will help vendors to create their own installation packages
• The extension manager will contain free and non free applications/extensions etc.
• Providers can be added manually (for vendors who want to provide their own applications)
• Applications can be password protected
• more to come...

Monday, August 11th, Boston
On Monday we drove to Boston and presented in front of the Boston CFUG. Thanks to Brian Rinaldi for organizing the meeting. It was the last stop on or tour and we even had a celebrity like Adam Lehman from Adobe attending. I guess he took notes :-)
Thanks for beeing there Adam. I mostly thank him for not asking difficult and tough the questions... Next to the CFML Advisory Committee Adobe and we will try to work together in certain fields in order to create the future CFML as the community desires it to be.

Thanks again to all who attended us and we hope to see you all again later this year or whenever we find an opportunity.