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Hacker Lounge returns to Open Source Bridge

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 [...]

CivicApps at Open Source Bridge

This year Open Source Bridge is delighted to partner with the City of Portland on a special joint event to make some of your ideas for CivicApps into real tools for use in our civic community. For those of you in the Portland Metro area, mark your calendars to attend the CivicApps Ideas Discussion on [...]

Volunteer Sprint: Saturday, April 10th, 11am-5pm

The next Open Source Bridge volunteer sprint will be this Saturday, April 10th at the Market Street Pub. We’ll be there from 11am till 5pm, but you can come to as much of it as you’d like. Add this event to your calendar. Some things we need your help with: Audio: We need to process [...]

Walking through the hacker lounge

Thanks to Don Park (@donpdonp) for capturing a little of the hacker lounge magic for posterity. Join Don for a quick virtual walkthrough.

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 [...]