We are thrilled to announce the session lineup for this year’s Open Source Bridge conference! These presentations will be given as part of our 4-day event June 18th through the 21st in Portland, Oregon. We received hundreds of excellent proposals, community comments, and other feedback, and our diverse selection committee was very busy carefully reviewing everything.
This year’s conference features knowledgeable speakers covering a broad range of open source topics. So, if you’ve been holding off on registering, now is a great time to do so!
We’re still finalizing the room schedule for Open Source Bridge, and plan to announce that in the very near future as well. But, we need a little help from you. Please indicate talks you’re interested in by marking them as a favorite (click the star icon to the right of the session name). This information helps us schedule rooms appropriately. Please mark talks you think you’ll attend.
Without further ado, the selections for each of our five tracks:
Business
- “Give me money” or “join me in doing this great thing”? A workshop on asking for donations from individuals by Kellie Brownell
- Bitcoin and the Law – Whither Transactions? by J-P Voilleque
- Conducting Your Open Source Project by Michael Alan Brewer
- How Good is My Business Idea? Strategic Analysis for Techies by Mike Mangino
- Lessons Learned from starting an Open Source Office by Chris Aniszczyk
- Moonlighting in Sunlight by Paula Holm Jensen
- Negotiation: Because You’re Worth It by Noirin Plunkett
- Pinoccio — Building an Open Hardware Company, Year 1 by Eric Jennings, Sally Carson
- Product Management in the Open (Source) – community and direction by Larissa Shapiro
- The Social Web has become a Hostile Web and How We Start Fixing That by Bill Humphries
Chemistry
- Beginning Functional Programming in Scala by Michael Pigg
- Dirty Tricks of Computer Hardware: What You Don’t Know Will (Probably Not) Kill You by Darrick Wong
- FirefoxOS by Benjamin Kero
- Hacking Social Software with Pump.io by Evan Prodromou
- How to Multiply Small Integers While <del>Markus</del> Human by Markus Roberts
- Labor, Ethics and Computing by Cameron Adamez
- Library of the future: building the Multnomah County Library website by Joshua Mitchell
- Mobile Sync, HTML5, and NoSQL by J Chris Anderson
- PostgreSQL Replication — The Most Exciting Technology on Earth by Edward Snajder
- Shall We Play A Game? by Bart Massey
- Study Design: the best model for a cat is… a cat! by Mary Anne Thygesen
- The “Oh Shit” Graph: What We Can Learn From Wikipedia’s Editor Decline Trend by Brandon Harris
- The Perl Renaissance by Paul Fenwick
- The problem with passwords on the web and what to do about it by François Marier
- Using Secure Boot for the powers of good by Matthew Garrett
- What Is Async, How Does It Work, And When Should I Use It? by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis
- What Is That Process Doing? by Greg Price
- Wikipedia’s new editing system, and how you can use it too by Trevor Parscal, Roan Kattouw
Culture
- !done – Hacking IRC Bots for Distributed Teams by Amber Case, Aaron Parecki
- Agile from the Open Source Trenches: Making agile work for Wikipedia engineering teams by Alolita Sharma
- Bugs, Bugs, Bugs! by Andre Klapper, Liz Henry
- Citizenship Online: Open Source Politics by Ele Munjeli
- Clone A Git Together Into Your Town by Duke Leto
- DIY: Creativity and Open Source by Melissa Chavez
- Data Journalism by David Stanton
- Designgineering by Trevor Parscal
- Diversity in Open Source: What’s Changed in 2012 and 2013 by Ashe Dryden, Sumana Harihareswara, Valerie Aurora
- Expanding Your Empathy by Kronda Adair
- FAIL is Not a Four-Letter Word by VM Brasseur
- Fluff: Collaborating to Publish a Fiberarts Magazine Using Open Source Tools by Rose White
- Geek Choir — Fast! by Michael Alan Brewer
- Hacking the Academic Experience by Emily Stolfo
- How My Kids Are Learning to Program By Talking by Ian Dees
- Human Interfaces for Geeks by Paul Fenwick
- It’s OK to be Average by Noirin Plunkett
- Just Don’t Lick the Cookie: an open discussion about organizational dysfunction by Kellie Brownell, Sumana Harihareswara
- Kicking Impostor Syndrome In The Head by Denise Paolucci
- Lessons From X by Bart Massey
- Leveling up in DevOps: the Art of Bad Shell Scripts by Emily Slocombe
- My First Year of Pull Requests by Fiona Tay
- No, I Won’t Contribute to Your Open Source Project by VM Brasseur
- Open Sourcing Depression by Edward Finkler
- Programming Diversity by Ashe Dryden
- Quantitative community management by Asheesh Laroia
- Running with Scissors: Open Source Team Dynamics by Amye Scavarda
- Sharing Beyond “Sharing”: Fostering an Open Sharing Culture in the Philippines by Josh Lim
- Simple Questions Should Have Simple Answers by Michael Schwern
- Smart Asana by Sherri Montgomery
- The Care and Feeding of Volunteers: Lessons from Non-Profits and OSS by Kat Toomajian
- The Case for Everyday Crypto by Wesley Chen
- The Future of Ruby by Brian Shirai
- We, the people by Sucheta Ghoshal, Harsh Kothari
- Where “Small is Beautiful” meets “Big Data”- Empowering Local Communities with Open Hardware by Andrew Jawitz
- Zero to root in 12 months / How We Mentor “Rock Star” Students by William Van Hevelingen, Spencer Krum, Lance Albertson, Kenneth Lett
Cooking
- Come Make a Map: Completely Custom, Open Source Maps with TileMill by Justin Miller
- Cool Features of the Z Shell (zsh) by Michael Pigg
- Data & Applications Across the Void :: Distributing Systems by Adron Hall
- Database Change Management by Todd Lisonbee
- Firefox Bug Rodeo! by Liz Henry
- FiveUI: Open-source UX tests for the common good by Benjamin Jones, Rogan Creswick
- Innovating Faster with a Micro-Service Architecture using SBT, Continuous Delivery, and LXC by Kevin Scaldeferri
- Intel Atom for Makers and the DIY Community by Scott Garman
- Let The Internet Work For You by Sebastian Tiedtke
- Literate Programming for the 21st Century by Howard Abrams
- Low-Friction Personal Data Collection by Aaron Parecki
- Metrics – What’s your code actually doing? by James Burkhart
- Mod your Android by Jesse Hallett
- More Code, More Problems by Edward Finkler
- PHP for Pirates: pillaging interactive debugging from Ruby and JavaScript by Justin Hileman
- Polling: It’s Good Enough for the WWW & It’s Good Enough for You by Jessica Lynn Suttles
- Programming Is Debugging, So Debug Better by Yoz Grahame
- Quick Cure for the Shame of Untested Software by Daniel Nichter
- Remote Pair Programming by Sam Livingston-Gray
- Rust: A Friendly Introduction by Tim Chevalier
- Search-first writing for non-writers by Heidi Waterhouse
- Taming Your Inner Cowboy Coder – A Simple And Sane DevOps Workflow by Evan Heidtmann, Greg Lund-Chaix
- Test Driven Development with AngularJS by Joe Eames
- Training the trainers by Asheesh Laroia
- Unicode Best Practices by Nick Patch
- debugging without borders by Chris McCraw
Hacks
- Balloon & Kite Mapping Workshop by Mathew Lippincott
- Custom Markup for Working and Writing by Ward Cunningham
- DIY Electric Vehicles by Benjamin Kero
- Hacking your Meatware: exercises you can do at your desk by Kurt Sussman
- Pro Bash Development; Way Beyond Shell Scripting by Daniel Nichter
- Robotron Autopsy: Learning About Hardware From Vintage Video Games by Jared Boone
- Switching Teams: Moving an Application from MySQL to PostgreSQL by Julie Baumler
- Teaching Robots to See With Javascript by Peter Braden
- Terraformer — Open Source Geometry for Javascript by Jerry Sievert
- Write, Debug And Tests Apps for FirefoxOS by Schalk Neethling
In addition to the schedule for Open Source Bridge 2013, we have two exciting evening events planned so far!
The first is a Community/Project Hack night in the Hacker Lounge on the first evening of the conference. We’re still confirming which groups will participate, but we have a few spots still open. So, if you’d like your project to host a table and run a mini-hack-a-thon, let us know by emailing hackerlounge@opensourcebridge.org.
The other exciting event is the official party on Thursday night! More details to come as we have them. Interested in sponsoring the official party? We still have a spot open, just email sponsor@opensourcebridge.org.
The last day of the conference, Friday, June 21 will be a full day of unconference sessions where you get to suggest and give talks on whatever you’d like!
Also, there are plenty of opportunities to volunteer on-site (and get in free if you contribute 8 or more hours)! Let us know you’d like to volunteer on our Get Involved page or email volunteer@opensourcebridge.org.