We are very pleased to announce this year’s Open Source Bridge conference sessions as part of our 4-day event June 21st through the 24th 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 and choosing talks.
This year’s lineup 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 waiting to hear back from a few speakers, so stay tuned in the next few days as we fill in a few gaps – but the bulk of our speakers have responded to acceptances, and we’re happy to share what we have with you today!
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:
Business
- Diary of an Open Source Sysadmin Entrepreur by Luke Kanies
- Doing NoSQL with SQL by Michael Widenius
- Drupal distributions, an open source product model by Lev Tsypin
- How 5 People with 4 Day Jobs in 3 Time Zones Enjoyed 2 Years Writing 1 Book by Ian Dees
- How Governments are Building Communities with Open Source by Chris Strahl
- How to ask for money by Selena Deckelmann and Scott Kveton
- Improving estimates for web projects by Alex Kroman
- Keeping Agile at the Heart of the Internet by Larissa Shapiro
- Learn Tech Management In 45 Minutes by Sumana Harihareswara
- Marketing: You’re Soaking In It! by VM Brasseur
- Open Source at Microsoft – Less Evil and More Organized than you’d think by Scott Hanselman
- Open Sourcing Your Legacy Project: A Game of Adventure, Danger and Low Cunning by VM Brasseur
- Pulling the Plug by Ryan Snyder
- Sales-fu by Amye Scavarda
- Starting and Scaling a Startup Outside of the Silicon Valley by Michael Richardson
- The Independent Software Developer by Peat Bakke
- Turning Mediocre Products Into Awesome Products by Bryan Zmijewski
Chemistry
- Beaming up with alien and lua by Brandon Philips
- Cookies are bad for you: Improving security on the web by Jesse Hallett
- Gearman: From the Worker’s Perspective by Brian Aker
- Geek Fitness: Your body is not just transportation for your brain by Kurt Sussman
- GraphViz: The open-source body scanner for code, systems, and data. by Matt Youell
- OSWALD: Lessons from and for the Open Hardware Movement by Tim Harder
- Open Source GIS Desktop Smackdown by David Percy, Darrell Fuhriman, and Christian Schumann-Curtis
- Parrot: State of the VM by Christoph Otto
- Previously Untitled Meditation on the Zen of Python by Dan Colish
- Qs on Queues by Eric Day
- So, you want to make a map? by Sarah Beecroft and Darrell Fuhriman
- The Current State of OAuth 2 by Aaron Parecki
- The History of Concurrency by Michael Schurter
- The Locker Project, TeleHash, and You by Jeremie Miller
Cooking
- A Dozen Databases in 45 Minutes by Eric Redmond
- Composing Software Systems by Jamey Sharp and Josh Triplett
- Cooking GeoData with PostGIS by Larry Price
- Creating Your Specific Live GNU/Linux Distribution with Debian Live Build by Steven Shiau, Chenkai Sun, Yao-Tsung Wang, and Thomas Tsai
- DNSSEC @ Mozilla by Shyam Mani
- Data Science in the Open by John Taylor
- Data Warehousing 101 by Josh Berkus
- Designing Error Aggregation Systems by Gavin McQuillan
- Fast VoIP: Build your own Asterisk server in less than an hour by Jonathan Thurman
- Getting Started with FPGAs and HDLs by Phil Tomson
- Getting Started with Semantic Web Applications by Leif Warner and Brian Panulla
- Hands-on Virtualization with Ganeti by Lance Albertson and Peter Krenesky
- Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java by Howard Lewis Ship
- Inclusive Design From The Start by Eitan Isaacson
- Intro to CouchDB by J Chris Anderson
- Inviting Contributors to Open Source Webdev through Virtualization by Les Orchard
- JavaScript up and down the stack by Mikeal Rogers
- King of the Data Jungle by Melissa Hollingsworth
- Massively scaling Django for a global audience with Playdoh by Frederic Wenzel
- Modern Perl Made Painless by chromatic x
- No More Joins by Nuno Job, J Chris Anderson, and Roger Bodamer
- Preventing runtime errors at compile time by David Lazar, Michael Ernst, and Werner Dietl
- Put THAT in your pipe and deploy it! by David Brewer
- Read the Docs: A completely open source Django web site by Eric Holscher
- Run your Javascript everywhere, with Jellyfish. by Adam Christian
- Similar, But Not The Same: Designing Projects Around Three Open Datasets by Matt Blair
- Technical Debt by Elizabeth Naramore
- Testing Antipatterns by Matt Robinson
- The Big Data Exploratorium: Data Mining, from Patents to Memes by Noah Pepper and Devin Chalmers
- Twiggy: The First New Logger in Fifteen Years by Peter Fein
- User, user, who art thou? by Jacinta Richardson
- Write better Javascript with RequireJS by Chris Pitzer
- ePUB – What, Why, and How by Jason LaPier
Culture
- Geek Choir 3.0 (Short Form) by Michael Alan Brewer
- Get ‘Em While They’re Young: Cultivating the Next Generation of Open Source Contributors by Jane Wells
- Give a Great Tech Talk by Ian Dees and Josh Berkus
- Hacker Dojo: Anarchy with Respect by Kitt Hodsden
- How Python saved 263 lives, and our sanity by Jonathan Karon
- How not to be a Jerk OR Something Awesome About Brains by Paul Fenwick
- Is your Community Connecting to the Future? by Mary Beth Henry
- Kick Asana by Sherri Montgomery
- Law is Code, and We’re Here to Open Source It by Robb Shecter and Lisa Hackenberger
- Learn open source skills without embarrassing yourself by Asheesh Laroia
- Mozilla School of Webcraft @P2PU by John Britton
- Online Community Metrics: Tips and Techniques for Measuring Participation by Dawn Foster
- Open Source: Saving the World by Noirin Shirley
- Open source: Open to whom? by Valerie Aurora
- Seven Habits Of Highly Obnoxious Trolls by Bart Massey, Selena Deckelmann, and Duke Leto
- Transit Appliances by Chris Smith
Hacks
- 5 Easy Pieces: “Rabid Prototyping” With “Physical Computing” and other dirty tricks. by Donald Davis
- Cloud Scaling: High Performance Even in Virtualized Environments. by Gavin McQuillan
- Control Emacs with Your Beard: the All-Singing All-Dancing Intro to Hacking the Kinect by Devin Chalmers and Greg Borenstein
- Drizzle, Virtualizing and Scaling MySQL for the Future by Brian Aker
- Growing food with Open Source by Sarah Sharp
- Hardware/Software Integration with Txtzyme by Ward Cunningham
- IRL: how do geeks undermine their presentations and conversations with body language by sarah novotny
- Location-Based Hacks – How to Automate your life with SMS and GPS by Amber Case and Aaron Parecki
- Snooze, the totally RESTful language by Markus Roberts