The document summarizes the author's experience working on the OpenStack Compute project. It describes how the project started small with a few developers successfully launching VMs in a weekend. It then grew rapidly with over 70 active contributors and 100 companies involved within 1.25 years. Key features like ISCSI support and high availability networking were able to be prototyped and added to production quickly thanks to OpenStack's agile development process and Python codebase. The author concludes that OpenStack Compute was the best project to work on due to its agile and dynamic nature, high-profile technology, and active community.