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+layout: post
+title: "State of the Union"
+description: "Paulus speaks about the origin of Home Assistant and where we're heading."
+date: 2018-11-16 00:01:00
+date_formatted: "November 16, 2018"
+author: Paulus Schoutsen
+author_twitter: balloob
+comments: true
+categories: Video
+og_image: /images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/share-the-love.jpg
+---
+
+<p class='img'>
+  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/share-the-love.jpg' alt='Photo of Paulus Schoutsen presenting the state of the union.'>
+</p>
+
+Last Wednesday, November 14, we had a meetup in Amsterdam hosted by <a href='https://www.ing.nl'>ING</a>. Over 80 Home Assistant enthusiasts gathered to hear me, Paulus Schoutsen, the founder of Home Assistant, speak. I talked about how Home Assistant got started, what makes Home Assistant so successful (community!) and what we're working towards.
+
+<div class='videoWrapper'>
+<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/egcOCWIh9jQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
+</div>
+
+Special thanks to:
+
+ - Jeroen Joosse for the initiative and organizing
+ - Erik-Jan Riemers for co-organizing and making it this big
+ - ING for hosting the event
+ - Franck Nijhof for providing the Hass.io demos
+ - Nicolaas Schoute for providing the TensorFlow demos
+ - Frank Kuiper for editing the presentation video
+
+More photos after the click.
+
+<!--more-->
+
+<p class='img'>
+  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/chatter.jpg' alt='Crowd talking Home Assistant'>
+  Crowd talking Home Assistant
+</p>
+
+<p class='img'>
+  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/frenck-hassio.jpg' alt='Frenck showing all the ins and outs of Hass.io'>
+  Frenck showing all the ins and outs of Hass.io
+</p>
+
+<p class='img'>
+  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/zwave-table.jpg' alt='The Z-Wave table'>
+  The Z-Wave table
+</p>
+
+<p class='img'>
+  <img src='/images/blog/2018-11-state-of-the-union/presentation-selfie.jpg' alt='Presentation selfie!'>
+  Presentation selfie!
+</p>
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