Open Source Bridge » content http://opensourcebridge.org Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. This is a podcast of talks from the conference. Portland, Oregon | June 26–29, 2012 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:48:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Copyright © Open Source Bridge 2010, CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ web@opensourcebridge.org (Open Source Bridge) web@opensourcebridge.org (Open Source Bridge) podcast 1440 http://opensourcebridge.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/logo.144.gif Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org 144 144 Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. This is a podcast of talks from the conference. Portland, Oregon | June 21–23, 2011 Portland, open, source, technology, tech, hacking, collaboration, awesome Open Source Bridge Open Source Bridge web@opensourcebridge.org no no Announcing the 2012 Call for Proposals http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/01/announcing-the-2012-call-for-proposals/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/01/announcing-the-2012-call-for-proposals/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:50:32 +0000 jimmythehorn http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2703 Our call for presentation proposals is now open and we will be accepting proposals through March 16, 2012. Speaking at Open Source Bridge is a great opportunity to share your knowledge and enthusiasm. Now is the time to submit a proposal to speak at the conference!

What kind of proposals, you ask? Open Source Bridge strives to be a different kind of open source conference: one that welcomes all open source languages, platforms, and pursuits while embracing responsible and engaged open source citizenship.

The conference’s tracks are:
Business: How do you build a successful open source business?
Chemistry: What makes this work? Take the technology apart and teach us about its components.
Cooking: How do you write the script, configure the utility, debug the code, make it work? What are your best recipes?
Culture: What makes open source work? What else does the open source ethic lead us to do?
Hacks: How did you pull that off?

For a little additional inspiration, we encourage you to look through previous years’ archives of sessions presented at Open Source Bridge, but don’t let that limit you, either! We know that certain topic areas have been underrepresented in previous years, and we would very much love a diverse and broad set of proposals for this year’s bridge. We would very much love to see more talks about hardware, security, user experience design and just about everything else related to open source. No idea is too out there. We’d love to see it all.

If you speak at Open Source Bridge, we’ll happily waive the fee for your attendance. Not sure if you should register now, or hold off to see if your talk is accepted? If you wait and your talk is not accepted, we’ll give you a special discount code that will get you a ticket at $200 (that’s $25 off the early-bird rate).

So what are you waiting for? We’d love to hear what you have to say. Begin creating your proposal today.

Attend the conference

Register to attend Open Source Bridge 2012. We offer the following kinds of tickets:
Early bird tickets at $225 until April 30th.
Full price tickets at $300, great for corporate attendees.
As always, we offer a student rate of $99, available anytime.

Please register soon so you can help give the event some early support.

Interested in volunteering?

We encourage those of you interested in being more involved with Open Source Bridge to sign up for our volunteer list.

Interested in sponsoring?

Let us know by contacting sponsorship@opensourcebridge.org and we’ll send you a prospectus.

We hope that you are as excited as we are about Open Source Bridge 2012. Don’t hesitate to contact us at info@opensourcebridge.org if you have any questions. We thank you very much for your support and hope to see you in Portland in June!

–The Open Source Bridge Team

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2012/01/announcing-the-2012-call-for-proposals/feed/ 0 Announcing the 2011 Schedule! http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/05/announcing-the-2011-schedule/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/05/announcing-the-2011-schedule/#comments Tue, 24 May 2011 16:18:53 +0000 jimmythehorn http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2495 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 additions to the schedule over the next few days, but as the bulk of the schedule is in place, we wanted to let you all know when each session will be so that you can start to plan your time at Open Source Bridge.

It’s only four short weeks until Open Source Bridge is here, and we hope you’re as excited as we are. We look forward to seeing all of you in June!

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/05/announcing-the-2011-schedule/feed/ 0 Announcing the Open Source Bridge 2011 talks! http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/05/announcing-the-open-source-bridge-2011-talks/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/05/announcing-the-open-source-bridge-2011-talks/#comments Thu, 12 May 2011 13:31:29 +0000 jimmythehorn http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2245 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

Chemistry

Cooking

Culture

Hacks

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/05/announcing-the-open-source-bridge-2011-talks/feed/ 0 Announcing Keynotes (and last day for Early Bird Registration) http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/04/announcing-keynotes-and-last-day-for-early-bird-registration/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/04/announcing-keynotes-and-last-day-for-early-bird-registration/#comments Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:22:24 +0000 christie http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2235 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 technologies the city is utilizing. In conjunction with the Mayor’s keynote, we’re also working with the City to reprise last year’s hugely popular CivicApps hack day.

Our second keynote will be Python expert Pete Fein, who will talk about “Hacking for Freedom.” Fein, the former CTO of Juju.com, will discuss the politics, technology and ethics of hacktivism. Working with Anonymous and Telecomix, Fein has helped organize protests in support of WikiLeaks, provided communications support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt and the Middle East, and generally continues to fight the good fight.

Last Day for Early Bird Registration

We’ve extended $225 Early Bird registration through the end of today. Register now to save $75 on regular price admission (at midnight prices increase to $300).

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/04/announcing-keynotes-and-last-day-for-early-bird-registration/feed/ 0 Open Source Bridge Wants Your Input http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/04/open-source-bridge-wants-your-input/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/04/open-source-bridge-wants-your-input/#comments Sat, 09 Apr 2011 01:00:36 +0000 jimmythehorn http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2194 The Open Source Bridge team is hard at work reviewing the many amazing proposals we received this year. While that process continues, we want to gather input from all the members of our community as well.

Is there a session proposal you’re excited to attend? Or a speaker you want to collaborate with in the Hacker Lounge (more details about the Hacker Lounge here)? Be sure to take a minute to leave comments on the proposals you’d like to see at this year’s Open Source Bridge conference, and tell your coworkers, friends, and fellow user group members to comment too.

There are two ways to tell our selection committee what proposals you’re interested in: 1) by marking the ones you like as favorites (using the little stars), and 2) by leaving comments on them (using the form at the end of each proposal).

The list of favorites is publicly visible on your user profile page, so you can share the list of talks you’re excited about with others. The comments are private and only visible to the selection team; this is the place to tell us why the presentation’s topic is important, how well qualified the speaker is, and so on.

Commenting on proposals and marking your favorites is very valuable feedback for us, and allows you to further help set the direction of Open Source Bridge.

You can get started now: http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2011/proposals

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/04/open-source-bridge-wants-your-input/feed/ 1 Apply for the 2011 Content Selection Committee http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/03/apply-for-the-2011-content-selection-committee/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/03/apply-for-the-2011-content-selection-committee/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 18:29:01 +0000 christie http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2177 We’ve had many great proposals submitted so far, and we’re looking forward to more excellent ideas before our Call for Proposals closes at the end of the month. That means we’re not far from having to make the difficult decision of selecting which submissions to accept. To assist with this challenging task, we’d like to invite individuals from our community to help select talks for this year’s conference.

The only requirements are that you have some in-depth knowledge or expertise of a field related to an open source technology, and that you have 5-10 hours to spare between April 2nd and April 15th to spend reviewing and discussing proposals. You don’t need to be in Portland, though if you aren’t, you should have the ability to participate via telephone or Skype in our final meeting to select talks (date/time to be determined, based on everyone’s availability).

To apply, please complete the form here by April 1st. If you have any questions, email us at content@opensourcebridge.org.

We plan to select about a half-dozen community members to participate in the content committee. Our goals are to represent a diverse set of experiences and views — including a range of expertise areas — and involve both those who have experience selecting conference talks and those who are new to the process. We also want the committee to be as gender-balanced as possible.

We hope you’ll considering being a part of the selection committee, but if that doesn’t seem like a good fit, there are many other ways to get involved. Also, don’t forget that anyone can view and comment on submitted proposals, to let the selection team know what you want to see.

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/03/apply-for-the-2011-content-selection-committee/feed/ 0 2010 Conference Keynotes Available http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/02/2010-conference-keynotes-available/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/02/2010-conference-keynotes-available/#comments Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:08:48 +0000 christie http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2103 As you may know, Open Source Bridge announced a Call for Proposals last month. To get an idea of what other speakers have presented, check out the Keynote Addresses from our 2010 conference (listed below). See what speakers and participants thought of the conference, then submit your own talk ideas or register to attend!

Open Source Bridge 2010 Conference Keynotes

Cami Kaos interview organizers, speakers and participants

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/02/2010-conference-keynotes-available/feed/ 0 Speaker Focus: Lev Tsypin and Drupal http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/speaker-focus-lev-tsypin-and-drupal/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/speaker-focus-lev-tsypin-and-drupal/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:25:01 +0000 Guest http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=1236 Lev Tsypin will be presenting “Drupal, what is it good for?” tomorrow (Wednesday) morning in the Marquam room at 10:00.

My presentation will cover some Drupal basics including history, core concepts, and system structure. From there, we will dig into Drupal’s strengths and weaknesses, finishing off by discussing the types of projects Drupal is best suited for, including specific examples for each case.

My hope is that developers new to the platform will gain a better understanding of when to approach a new project with Drupal, more experienced developers will gain a bit of insight on when not to use it, and non-techies will have some help in choosing a platform for their projects along with an understanding why developers they work with select a given platform. Please note that this talk will not delve deeply into the technical details of Drupal.

Recommendations for other talks? Where to start! I only wish there weren’t so many overlapping talks I’m interested in. Some that caught my eye include the Web Server Shootout, Open Source Tools for Developers, Drizzle, Django, and the keynotes. I basically want to exposure to new topics for me, or a deeper insight into ones I’m already familiar with.

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/speaker-focus-lev-tsypin-and-drupal/feed/ 2 Speaker Focus: Anselm Hook and Ubiquitous Angels http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/speaker-focus-anselm-hook-and-ubiquitous-angels/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/speaker-focus-anselm-hook-and-ubiquitous-angels/#comments Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:02:50 +0000 Guest http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=1140 Anselm Hook will be talking about Ubiquitous Angels on Thursday at 11:20 in the Morrison room.

As I’m working along on my project and presentation for OSBridge I’m taking a moment to think about how great the tools are that we have today.

These tools are making it much easier to be an open source developer. It is a whole new world.

We have access to heaps of data through Yahoo Query Language, Open Street Maps, Wolfram Alpha, Twitter, Facebook Connect and even the new data.gov effort.

We have access to increasingly powerful tools such as Ferret, Solr, Nutch… gosh and many more.

The open source repositories at freshmeat, sourceforge and especially github reflect a new maturity in how developers develop. We have an excess of riches.

Today you don’t even need hardware – you can deploy an app into the cloud using EC2, or even a free app onto Google App Engine.

We even have open source hardware platforms like the Arduino—going in entirely new directions making it easy to do hardware prototyping such as botanicalls has done.

I suppose all I really wanted to say was hurrah Open Source! If it’s good enough for mother nature it is good enough for us!

Now–back to work.

(Image courtesy salvez. Used under Creative Commons.)

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/speaker-focus-anselm-hook-and-ubiquitous-angels/feed/ 1 Book a Room, Get the Early Bird Rate Part 2 http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/book-a-room-get-the-early-bird-rate-part-2/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/book-a-room-get-the-early-bird-rate-part-2/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 23:08:13 +0000 Jake http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=1212 So, we ran a promotion a little while ago to help motivate people to book rooms at the Hilton.

To recap, if you booked your stay at the Hilton, we would send you a code to use to register for the conference at the Early Bird rate of $175.

The promotion ran from May 28 to June 5.

Today, I discovered that I cannot, for privacy reasons, get your email addresses, only your names.

So, if you booked your room and want to get that code, please send an email to us at info at opensourcebridge dot org to get the code.

Then you can do your happy dance.

Sorry for the fail.

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