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Volunteer Sprint #2 – Stuff We Did

The volunteer work sprint on Saturday, February 27, 2010 focused primarily on logistics planning for the upcoming conference.
We had several enthusiastic volunteers help out with:

Preliminary Hacker Lounge Planning.
Initial draft of the Master Conference Schedule.
A review of open logistics tasks and filling in any missing gaps in Redmine.
We came up with some new ideas for Extras including [...]

Open Source Bridge 2010 town hall meeting on January 28 (reminder)

Join other Open Source Citizens at Nedspace Old Town for a Town Hall meeting this Thursday at 7PM and help us prepare us for our 2010 conference.
Meet the Organization Team and hear about what we want to continue to do right this year, the improvements we want to make, the conference venues we’re considering, and [...]

Open Source Bridge 2010 town hall meeting on January 28

The Conference for Open Source Citizens is back for 2010. Join the Open Source Bridge Organization Team for a Town Hall. We’ll be sharing our plans for this year’s conference, as well as announcing the date we’ll open the call for proposals. We also want to hear your input about the sessions you’d [...]

Hacking public data with YQL in the hacker lounge

Not only is Yahoo! Developer Network the sponsor of the hacker lounge, they also have some stuff for us to hack on. And what could be better than public data? Dig in. Yahoo! has announced that US government data is now available through YQL.
Not sure what to do? Well, they have some examples using earthquake [...]

Thanks to our sponsors for helping make Open Source Bridge a reality

With less than 24-hours to go until we open the doors to Open Source Bridge, we’re in the eye of the storm. A brief moment of calm to reflect and give credit where credit is due.
We realize how lucky we are. We’ve been able to attract a wealth of phenomenal open source speakers. We’ve had [...]