I have posted on the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) blog my experiences of the most recent VUFind conference. From the posting:

 The Conference was well-organized and provided a forum for plenty
 of discussion and idea generation. The setting was very nice and
 the food was plentiful. Everybody was able to participate. I
 heard a number of people say they were either implementing or
 toying with the idea of implementing Evergreen as their "catalog"
 and using VUFind as their "discovery layer". I had not thought of
 this. Interesting. I appreciated the active participation of
 Chris Spalding. He was candid and sincere. It was very nice to
 put names from the mailing lists with faces, and thus the crowd
 was international. Blacklight was compared & contrasted with
 VUFind a number of times throughout the meeting. I believe both
 communities have something to learn from the other.

 http://www.catholicresearch.net/blog/2010/09/vufind-2-0-conference/

The VUFind community is most certainly alive and well.

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Eric Lease Morgan
University of Notre Dame