June 26–29, 2012 | Portland, Oregon
This Sunday only, it’s Open Source Bridge volunteer madness at Ristretto Coffee. Ah monster trucks. Anyway, we’re hosting a volunteer-a-thon this Sunday, 10 AM to 4 PM, starting at Ristretto Coffee for coffee, and migrating to Lompoc 5th Quadrant for lunch. Want to help? Here’s what we’ll be doing: Join us to work on one [...]
Although there may not be other editions of this “why attend” series, I figured I’d lay the groundwork, just in case. There are lots of reasons to attend Open Source Bridge if you’re an open source citizen including learning from like-minded individuals, meeting other citizens, talking about your own work, discovering new projects, all that. [...]
As we’ve mentioned before, we’re all volunteering to pull Open Source Bridge together. It’s a great deal of effort, but we’re really excited to see the enthusiasm from the community as things begin to take shape. What are we learning as we work to build an event for open source citizens? You can get a [...]
On Friday, a few of us (Kelly, Rick, Selena and I) headed up to Seattle to attend their Lunch 2.0 Happy Hour and chat about the conference with our pals from the Emerald City. You can read all the gory details of the road trip over on the Silicon Florist. Our main goal in Seattle [...]
One of the unique things about Open Source Bridge is that it is entirely volunteer run. That’s right. 100% volunteers. All proceeds—sponsorships, registration fees, and in-kind contributions—go to ensuring that Portland, Oregon, has a one-of-a-kind conference for open source citizens this summer—and hopefully for many years to come. Why do we do it? Because we [...]
