Now that we’ve had a bit of a break after the 2010 conference, we’re excited and ready to start planning for 2011!
We want you to be involved in making the next Open Source Bridge as awesome as the first two. If you’re interested in helping out with next year’s conference, please come to our Volunteer Kick-off meeting TONIGHT, 7/28 at 6pm.
We’ll provide an overview of our plans for 2011, things we want to improve, outline our volunteer needs, and listen to your ideas about how you want to contribute.
If you’re unable to attend in person, you can participate online:
We’ll post meeting notes on our Google Group, so make sure you’re a member. Also, if you haven’t already, please let us know you’re interested in volunteering here: http://opensourcebridge.org/get-involved/.
Questions? Email volunteer@opensourcebridge.org.
So you’ve spent the last three days learning about the coolest open source projects, exploring Portland and making new friends. But wait – there’s more! Please join us for Friday’s Unconference After Party at Beer and Blog. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Beer and Blog, it is Portland’s premier tech happy hour where folks from near and far congregate and share their love of all things geeky. We’re looking forward to hearing about all of your recently gained knowledge from the conference and to enjoying each others company over fine local beers.
If you need any beer suggestions while you are at Beer and Blog this Friday, just Tweet to @kfinsand, the Chief Beer Officer of @Taplister and the Portland Chapter Host of Beer and Blog, so he can point you in the right direction.
Portland Beer and Blog takes place every Friday at the Green Dragon (928 Southeast 9th Avenue) from 4-6pm, though people usually stay a lot later. See you at the after party this Friday, and we hope to see you any Friday you find yourself in Portland!
It’s much like a traditional pub crawl, but with libations served at several local starups.
Our Advocate Level sponsor, Facebook, will be hosting Thursday evening’s starup crawl. We’ll begin with a party at at Kell’s Irish Pub from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Don’t forget to bring your conference badge as it’s required to get drinks!
We’ll then hand out maps with the locations of three startups on one side and a scavenger hunt on the other. After Kell’s we’ll stop in at the offices of JanRain, Puppet Labs, and Urban Airship, for beer and snacks. And last, but not least, from 9:00 – 11:00 PM the party continues to its last stop at the Wieden & Kennedy agency rooftop space with more beer (donated by Southern Oregon Brewing via Taplister) and desserts.
If you want to get a jump on the scavenger hunt, you can already get the clues in the Hacker Lounge. Check the beverage tables for information sheets while you’re getting your afternoon dose of caffeine.
Welcome to the opening day of Open Source Bridge! We’re all very excited you’re here.
Today’s opening keynote will be from Danny O’Brien, Internet Advocacy Coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists. He’s going to kick things off with a practical look at the FLOSS tools that journalists working in repressive regimes currently use, and what we could help create for them.
I wanted to also let you know that we’ve had a few changes to the schedule since it was printed:
- CANCELLED: Getting Started with FPGAs and HDLs, 1:30-2:15 Tuesday
- MOVED: The Story of Spaz: How to Give Away Everything, Make No Money,
and Still Win – to 4:45p Thursday
- ERROR: Making Drupal Go Fast with Varnish and Pressflow – 10am Thurs Fremont
All talks are correct in the online version of the schedule at this time.
Thanks, and look forward to seeing you today!
For those of you who haven’t had a chance to peruse our attendee information email from this morning, we’re adding the notes to our blog. Take a look at all that Open Source Bridge 2010 has to offer, including some events happening this Memorial Day evening!
Conference Details
- Volunteering: Want to help? Check in at the volunteer lounge any time during the conference.
- Schedule: Tomorrow we begin our four full days of technical content across five tracks. Check the conference schedule so you know the time/day of the talks you want to attend.
- Social Media: Share your experiences and find interesting people through blogs, Twitter and Identi.ca. Follow @osbridge for announcements and include either @osbridge, #osbridge or #osb10 in your tweets/dents.
- Session Notes: Take notes and share them with the world! Each session has an associated wiki page, linked from its session page.
Activities at the Conference
- Hacker Lounge: The 24-hour hacker lounge is returning and will be on-site and open from Tuesday at 8am until Friday at 4pm. Bring projects to share!
- Museum Access and Discounts: You’ll have full access to the Portland Art Museum during the conference. Just show your badge for admittance! Attendees also receive 20% off museum membership during the month of June.
- Housetruck: Check out the awesome housetruck, which will be on display in the courtyard of the Art Museum all day on Tuesday.
- Lightning Talks: Wednesday morning will be a series of Lightning Talks. Come prepared with a 5 minute talk if you’d like to participate!
- BOFs: Birds of a Feather sessions are scheduled for every evening of the conference and include: PHP, Civic Engagement, Ruby, Open Government/Data, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Google Summer of Code and more.
Food and Drink
- We are able to provide coffee in the morning and afternoon, along with light snacks in the afternoon.
- We are not providing meals, so be prepared to bring your own or join friends to explore the many wonderful food options in Portland. The museum is minutes away from several of Portland’s famous food trucks. Check out the wiki for local food offerings.
Related Activities
- Coder’s Night: On Monday make plans to attend the North Portland Coders’ Night at the Lucky Lab Overlook Tap Room. You can get there easily from downtown by taking the Max Yellow line.
- Pub Crawl: Our sponsor Facebook and local Portland startups are hosting a pub crawl on Thursday evening. Keep an eye out for more details during the conference.
Finally, we would like to thank all of our sponsors for their support of Open Source Bridge 2010, particularly our Committer Level Sponsor, Mozilla, and our three Advocate Level Sponsors, Facebook, Google and the Rackspace Cloud.
We look forward to seeing all of you Open Source Citizens tomorrow!
