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Your Guide to Tuesday

Hello all, Open Source Bridge starts today! Registration opens at 8am each day of the conference, and a Continental Breakfast will be provided for attendees. We’re kicking off Open Source Bridge today at 9am with the morning keynote “Hacking for Freedom” by Peter Fein. Speaker sessions begin at 10am. Lunch will be catered by Nicholas [...]

Announcing the 2011 Schedule!

We know you’ve all been waiting for this news, so we wanted to let you know that the Open Source Bridge 2011 schedule is now online at http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2011/schedule Thank you all for your patience as we worked to come up with a schedule that will hopefully suit everybody. We’re still sorting out a few remaining details and expecting some [...]

Where To Stay? A Guide for Out-Of-Towners

So you’ve decided to come to Open Source Bridge in Portland, Oregon this June 21 – 24, but you’re coming from out of town, don’t know the area all that well, and need a place to stay? Don’t worry, we have some options for you near our Eliot Center conference venue. We put together a [...]

Announcing the Open Source Bridge 2011 talks!

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 [...]

Announcing Keynotes (and last day for Early Bird Registration)

The Open Source Bridge planning committee is pleased to announce our two planned keynote speakers for June’s conference: For the third year, we welcome back Portland’s own Mayor Sam Adams. This year Mayor Adams will speak about the City’s involvement with opening governmental data, what CivicApps projects have resulted from this, and what open source [...]