Connecting developers across projects, languages, and backgrounds.

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way.

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Open Source Bridge 2009 is over.

Thanks to the attendees, speakers, volunteers, sponsors, and organizers who helped make our first year a success!

Open Source Citizenship

What are the rights and responsibilities of an open source citizen? We’re exploring what open source means to us, what it offers, where we struggle, and why we do this day in and day out, even when we’re not paid for it.

Innovative Track Structure

Our session tracks are technology agnostic, based around shared community experiences and focus on the similarities between projects, not the differences. View the tracks.

All-Hours Hacker Lounge

The geekery doesn’t end when the sessions do. We’re also running a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or just mingling and taking in the vibe.

100% Volunteer-Run

Your software is peer-produced. Why not your conference? Open Source Bridge is pioneered and planned by a team of open source developers and technologists. What’s more, we’re building an open source application to manage talk proposals.

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It’s (almost) all over but the after party

We’re kicking off the last day of Open Source Bridge—the unconference day. And while we’re sad to see this entirely volunteer run event coming to a close, we’re looking forward to celebrating what we’ve accomplished with all of the attendees, speakers, volunteers—and the Portland tech community.

So let’s do that, shall we?

The official after party will start with Beer and Blog—Portland’s tech happy hour—starting at 4 PM at Webtrends. (Beer and Blog will also be going on at the Green Dragon, as usual. But the Portland crowd plans to migrate over at Webtrends as the afternoon wears on.)

But wait, there’s more.

The party will continue—around 8 PM-ish—as we move across the street to the Open Source Bridge hacker lounge at the top of the Hilton for more Strange Love Live, the best tech podcast in Portland, if not the world.

If you had the chance to chat with Strange Love Live at the conference, you’ll want to get on the set again. Because this time around, it’s all afterhours, all the time. In other words, no holds barred on the conversations—tech or otherwise.

Both after parties are open to the public, whether you attended Open Source Bridge or not. So come on down and join us in closing out the first Open Source Bridge.