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 [...]
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 [...]
Procrastinators rejoice! We’re extending the deadline for our Call for Proposals until 11:59 PDT on Thursday, March 31st. Not sure if you want to speak at Open Source Bridge? Of course you do! We’d love to have you and your ideas be a part of this year’s event, and we have some hints and inspiration [...]
GeoLoqi hackathon at the 2010 Hacker Lounge (photo by Igal Koshevoy) Once again, we’ll be hosting a 24-hour hacker space for you to meet, greet, nosh, exchange ideas, get tips and how-tos, and try out some of the hot new ideas and technologies you’ll be learning about during the conference. There’ll be plenty of wifi [...]
We’re getting close to the deadline for proposal submissions and thought it might be helpful to provide some tips about how to get your proposal accepted. These tips aren’t meant to be exclusive to Open Source Bridge. We hope you will be able to apply some of them when you submit to speak elsewhere. Have [...]