June 26–29, 2012 | Portland, Oregon
You’re probably tired of hearing it by now, but Open Source Bridge is 100% run by volunteers. Each and every one of us working to produce this conference is doing it without any compensation, following a very open source approach, free as in speech, or beer, depending on the situation. Why? We <3 open source. [...]
You know you do. Deep down inside, you remember back in elementary school how great it was to get that coveted gold star from your favorite teacher. We at Open Source Bridge know what you want. So, we’re offering you the chance to earn that gold star, or pay for it, your choice. Very soon, [...]
Please join us on Sunday, April 5th to work on: Code: Add features and specs (tests) to the OpenConferenceWare (OCW) conference app. Join in if you have Ruby on Rails coding experience, such as contributing code to Calagator. See the task list for details. Outreach: Contact user group leaders, educators, open source projects, mailing lists, [...]
After hearing Open Source Bridge co-founders Selena and Audrey on Twit.tv FLOSS Weekly, Mike Vore was kind enough to drop us a note about another Oregon open source gathering that preceded Open Source Bridge by a year or 27, the Semi Official Gathering (SOG). Very informal. Very open source (although it was called “public domain” [...]
You know what I love about open source? That we can name a conference something a little awkward like “Open Source Bridge”, and no marketing department stops us. There’s a project called Drizzle, that was forked from a commercial company and a team of what traditionally might be considered competitors ran with it. We can [...]
