We are very pleased to announce the session lineup for this year’s Open Source Bridge conference! These talks will be given as part of our 4-day event June 26th through the 29th in Portland, Oregon. We received hundreds of excellent presentation 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 session schedule for Open Source Bridge, and plan to announce that in the very near future as well.
Without further ado, the selections for each of our five tracks:
Business
- A Crash Course in Tech Management by VM Brasseur
- A snapshot of Open Source in West Africa by Renaud Gaudin
- Beyond Excel: Bringing web connected science to… scientists by John Metta, Bill Jackson
- Free for Open Source: Marketing to Developers by Michael Bleigh
- From Cooking in Co-Ops to Apache Commits: Insights from Growing Horizontal Communities by Francesca Krihely
- How We Went Remote by VM Brasseur
- How not to release software by Laura Thomson
- Open Source and Intellectual Property – Busting [some of] the Myths by Paula Holm Jensen
- Pro-style code review by Lennon Day-Reynolds
- Toward an Open Source Process for Security Vulnerabilities by Larissa Shapiro
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Project Management by Amye Scavarda
- What the hell is wrong with you people? Pushing change across an organization from the basement office. by Chris Chiacchierini, Chris Langford
- Your Open Source Startup by Evan Prodromou
- the art of customer engagement and retention: premium support for freemium software by chris “fool” mccraw
Chemistry
- 3D Graphics API Abstraction by Omar Rodriguez, Kyle Weicht
- <Your Favorite Programming Language> Loses by Bart Massey
- Accessibility In Mobile Platforms : Bridging Divides by Eitan Isaacson
- An Open Source Hardware Sensor Network for the Rest of Us by Eric Jennings
- An introduction to Luvit by Ryan Phillips
- Anatomy of an Open File Format: Where MBTiles Came From and the Mapping Problems It Solves by Justin Miller
- Building A Visual Editor for Wikipedia by Roan Kattouw, Trevor Parscal
- Building Developer Platforms by Scott Becker
- Comparing Open Source Private Cloud Platforms by Lance Albertson
- Cutting through the crap: The essence of content on the future web by Lyza Gardner
- Dark Arts of Data Storage: What’s Your Filesystem up to? by Darrick Wong
- Data-driven interfaces on the web using Clojure by Kevin Lynagh
- Experiences from Building a Science Cloud with OpenStack by Chris Hoge
- Firefox Crash Reporting: Using Big Data In Your Open Source Project by Laura Thomson
- Forking and refining data on the Open Web by Max Ogden
- Getting a handle on Privacy and Security by Shane Caraveo
- Go go gallimaufry by Markus Roberts
- Identity, Reputation and Gratitude: Designing for a community by Brandon Harris
- Internationalization @Wikipedia: Helping add the next billion web users by Alolita Sharma
- Let’s make an IRC bot by Eric Holscher
- Lye: How a Musician Built a Music Box by Corbin Simpson
- Model data without making tables – a pervasive linked data stack. by Leif Warner
- Nginx, overview and deployment by Cliff Wells
- Setup Automation with PowerShell: Forging the Weapon of One Man’s War Against Manual Setup Checklists by Aaron Jensen
- The Bacomatic 5000: Migrating from Arduino/AVR to ARM using libmaple. by Donald Davis
- The Style Of Style Guides by Michael Schwern
- Understand “Inform 7″ as Teh Awesome. by Bart Massey
- Web Actions: A New Building Block For The Web by Tantek Çelik
- What Is My Kernel Doing? by Randy Appleton
- Wireless Communication With An Open-Source Software Radio by Jared Boone
- ZenIRCBot and the Art of Pub/Sub by Wraithan (Chris McDonad)
- libuv: the power underneath nodejs by Brandon Philips
Culture
- 29 ways to get started in open source today by Andy Lester
- Anti-Censorship Best Practices: How to make keeping it up easy and taking it down hard by Meitar Moscovitz
- Bring out the GIMP, Open source art programs and their value in both tech and the professional artist community by cloe latchkey
- Easy Beats Open: The Challenge of Growing Open Source by Jeff Eaton
- Fear, Uncertainty, and Dopamine by Paul Fenwick
- How to Win Collaborators and Influence Community: Encouraging (& Not Discouraging) Novice Coders by Liene Verzemnieks
- Logic Lessons that Last Generations by Ian Dees
- Open Education Tools For Mentoring and Learning by Molly de Blanc
- Painting The Bikeshed: Lessons From A Drupal 8 Initiative Lead by Greg Dunlap
- Rise of the Indie Web by Tantek Çelik
- Seven Essential Skills to Cultivate for Happiness Working in the Open Source World by Leslie Hawthorn, Amye Scavarda
- Supporting Oregon K-12 education with open source by Greg Lund-Chaix
- Text Lacks Empathy by Michael Schwern, Noirin Plunkett
- Thriving in Chaos: An Introduction to Systems Thinking by Alex Kroman
- Why you need to host 100 new wikis just for yourself. by Ward Cunningham
- Wise Asana by Sherri Montgomery
Cooking
- Adventures in Hipster Programming: Solving a math puzzle using a genetic algorithm programmed in OCaml by Phil Tomson
- Building Web Apps with Clojure by Scott Becker
- Building and Testing REST APIs in Node.js by Russell Haering
- Design and Command Line Applications by Pieter van de Bruggen
- Developing and using pluggable type systems by Werner Dietl, Michael Ernst
- Documentation: Quick and Easy by Noirin Plunkett
- Don’t fear unicode by Jacinta Richardson
- Dread Free Continuous Deployment Using Dreadnot by Russell Haering
- Freedom 4: The freedom to use the program effectively, efficiently and satisfactory. by Jan-Christoph Borchardt
- Getting started with MongoDB and Scala by Sean Sullivan
- Introduction to Linux containers by Brian Martin
- Machine Learning in the Open by John Taylor
- Outreach Events: My Triumphs, My Mistakes by Sumana Harihareswara, Asheesh Laroia
- Practical Lessons from Exotic Languages by Corbin Simpson
- Put the “Ops” in “Dev”: what developers need to know about DevOps by Greg Lund-Chaix, Lance Albertson, Rudy Grigar, Kenneth Lett
- Real-World CouchDB by Matthew Woodward
- Solving interesting problems by writing parsers by Jacinta Richardson
- Sorry for browser hacking by Jeff Griffiths
- Using xmonad for a no-nonsense, highly productive Linux desktop experience by David Brewer
- When Google Maps gives you lemons, Make lemonade by Wm Leler
Hacks
- Building the Open Source Battle Rifle. by Beth Flanagan
- Continues Integration for the UI by Schalk Neethling
- From OAuth to IndieAuth: Own your online identity by Aaron Parecki
- Future of Wearable Computing: Constraint, Context and Location by Amber Case
- How and When to Do it Wrong by chromatic x
- How much work does it take and what is it like to integrate an Android SW stack on a gadget. by mark gross
- How to Encrypt Your Content on Any Website by Sean McGregor, Sanchit Karve, Jennifer Davidson
- Information Radiation and You by Pieter van de Bruggen
- Open source music by Cameron Adamez
- The art of open source DJing by Benjamin Kero









