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From Open Source Bridge attendee wiki 2009

Unconference Schedule

Sessions are 45 minutes, and start on-the-hour.

There is a text schedule with links below the board photos.

Contents 1 10:00 1.1 St. Johns 1.2 Fremont 1.3 Burnside B113 1.4 Marquam B119 1.5 Morisson B115 1.6 Hawthorne B118 1.7 Steel B111 2 11:00 2.1 St. Johns 2.2 St. Johns (Back) 2.3 Fremont 2.4 Fremont (Back) 2.5 Burnside B113 2.6 Marquam B119 2.7 Morisson B115 2.8 Hawthorne B118 2.9 Steel B111 2.10 Broadway B110 3 12:00 - 14:00 3.1 Exhibition Hall 4 13:00 4.1 St. Johns 4.2 St. Johns (Back) 4.3 Fremont 4.4 Fremont (Back) 4.5 Burnside B113 4.6 Marquam B119 4.7 Morisson B115 4.8 Hawthorne B118 4.9 Steel B111 4.10 Broadway B110 5 14:00 5.1 St. Johns 5.2 Fremont 5.3 Fremont (Back) 5.4 Burnside B113 5.5 Marquam B119 5.6 Morisson B115 5.7 Hawthorne B118 5.8 Steel B111 5.9 Broadway B110

[edit] 10:00

[edit] St. Johns

Open Source Vendor Experiences

Eric Searcy

[edit] Fremont

Everything's a File: the guts of tar, gzip, gif and friends

Webcomics, graph algorithms, and functional programming: case study of a webapp and webcrawler in Haskell

Jamey Sharp

[edit] Burnside B113

Snakes in a Motherfucking Cluster: Distributed Computing in Python with Pydra

@kreneskyp

[edit] Marquam B119

Personal Development for Software Devs: Communication & Community

Courses mentioned during the discussion include Landmark Education and Vipassana meditation.

Kevin Turner

Personal Preservation and How I Suck at It: A Support Group

@msamye / @mettaclove

[edit] Morisson B115

Open Street Map: Free Wiki Map of the World

Hurricane McEwen

[edit] Hawthorne B118

How are you finding meeting space: User groups, etc

Ben H / John L

[edit] Steel B111

How to Make $ and Still Have a Life: Freelancing?

Callie: @hylaweb

[edit] 11:00

[edit] St. Johns

Anticipatory Anthropology: Making the Future Work for You

John Prohodsky

[edit] St. Johns (Back)

Quick & Dirty Accessibility Testing: Without Screenreaders

Callie / ? @hytmuel ?

[edit] Fremont

Playing with Yourself: Open Source documentation teams

? Jane

[edit] Fremont (Back)

Moving from Proprietary to FOSS: What are the Challenges?

Grant K.

[edit] Burnside B113

Growing Dangerously Organic Communities

Mike Levin / ?

[edit] Marquam B119

Telecommunication in the Time of the Plague

@msamye

[edit] Morisson B115

PIMP my SLIDE: Presentation Software WYDIWYS, Animations, etc.

Keith Lofstrom

[edit] Hawthorne B118

RFP Response to Sam Adams

Mary Anne

[edit] Steel B111

Building an Open Source Community Directory

@pgesh - Peter Eschright

[edit] Broadway B110

Geek Choir

Michael Brewer

Discussed topics included: Audacity (audio editor)

abc (music notation format)

GNU LilyPond (music notation editor)

Songs covered came from: Choral Public Domain Library (CPDL)

Southern Harmony online

[edit] 12:00 - 14:00

[edit] Exhibition Hall

Portrait Studio on Film!

John L

[edit] 13:00

[edit] St. Johns

Reimagine Perl 5 / perl5 + i : Fix your Perl pain in one line!

@Schwern, Project page: github.com/schwern/perl5i

[edit] St. Johns (Back)

Day On: Give geekly advice to deserving nonprofits (without signing up for life ;)

@xolotl, Project page: DayOn.org

[edit] Fremont

Map/Reduce + Queues for Everyone!

Eric Day / Brian Aker

[edit] Fremont (Back)

Fighting a Lucene battle to Ferret out a search engine that doesn't Sphinx: Share your search engine experiences

David Brewar

[edit] Burnside B113

Does your Project Culture Suck?

John Prohodsky

[edit] Marquam B119

Free Money: P2P Banks, Currency & Barter as an alternative to national currencies

Jordan Curzon

[edit] Morisson B115

User Experience: Found Missin' (from FOSS?)

Callie - @hylaweb

Planning an Open Source Usability Summit for OSB 2010?

Reid B

[edit] Hawthorne B118

The Next Moore's Law "Netness" Why everything wants to be connected, and how connectivity itself is evolving towards connectivity fields and entangled lives.

Sheldon Renkin

[edit] Steel B111

Post Mortem: Not 4 CSI

Scott Daniels

[edit] Broadway B110

Music Jam -- Bring instruments and/or ears and/or feets

Kevin Jeff

[edit] 14:00

[edit] St. Johns

What has Microsoft done to you lately? Have you taken a turn toward the light side?

Scott Blomquist

Advocacy Tips from your Friendly Neighborhood Microsoft Evangelist

Jason Mauer

Apps for Democracy and the Beavers Ballpark

Elizabeth Buckwalter

[edit] Fremont

Opening the Community to Open Source

John Prohodsky

[edit] Fremont (Back)

Polyhedrons: Origami

Mary Anne

[edit] Burnside B113

How Open is Your Project? Metrics for FLOSS

Evan P.

[edit] Marquam B119

Taking Open Source to the Illogical Extreme: Creating Open Companies

@mettadore / @neophiliac

The Spice Must Flow!! Dune

@BramPito / ?yoadore

[edit] Morisson B115

So - How do you run an open source conference anyhow?

Audrey Eschright

[edit] Hawthorne B118

Where are the Geeky Women and What are They Doing?

@ubergeeke - Maria Webster

[edit] Steel B111

Windows Mobile & Open Source?

Kevin T.

[edit] Broadway B110

FCAPS: What the hell? (Net management)

@gorthx (Gabrielle) / @robotatom (Adam Lawry) / Josh Keroes