Register to Attend
Conference passes are $300 for four days of interaction with open source citizens. Student passes are $99 (you will be required to show current student ID when you pick up your badge).
Interested in attending more Portland conferences? Until May 19th, if you register for WebVisions or register for Open Source Bridge, you’ll be able to attend both events for only $400, a significant savings.
Enjoy the Conference
Open Source Bridge will be happening in the Mark Building at the Portland Art Museum, centrally located in Downtown Portland. The Portland Art Museum is located at 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97205 (Google map view).
Attendee Wiki
Check out the attendee wiki for information on visiting Portland, lodging near the conference and other goodies. We’ll update the wiki as we have more information for you, including possible discounts, so please check back often.
Transit
Portland has a metro-wide mass transit system called Trimet, which we encourage you to use. Fares are $2.30 for an all-zone ticket—this will take you from the airport to anywhere else in the system. Trip planning assistance is available from Trimet, and on Google Transit.
We <3 PDX
Portland, Oregon, is the ideal location for a community-oriented open source developers’ conference. The collaborative open-source mindset has become a core component of the creative culture in Portland, a town that also boasts leading minds in writing, graphic design, web design, music, and culinary pursuits. Portland is home to Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, is the adopted home of Linus Torvalds and plays host to a number of international projects, at centers like the Oregon State University Open Source Lab, and individual organizations like the Eclipse Foundation. Technology incubators, such as OTBC and the Portland Business accelerator, help start-up ventures succeed with open technologies. Portland is open source. The thriving ecosystem of grassroots software and hardware groups in Portland, from language-specific user groups to hardware hacking at Dorkbot and open source rocketry at PSAS, fosters incredible knowledge sharing and creativity. Larger local gatherings, like BarCamp, WhereCampPDX and other annual unconferences, show us the great ideas that come from cross-pollination and provide inspiration as we plan for Open Source Bridge.
