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Category Archives: Hacking

High Speed Internet at the Hacker Lounge

Stephouse Networks sponsors the 24hr Hacker Lounge with a 50mbps up link and wifi.

Speaker Focus: Anselm Hook and Ubiquitous Angels

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 [...]

Apparently, Harvard Business thinks Open Source Bridge is a really good idea, too

Even when you’re pretty darn sure you’re going about things the right way, it’s always nice to have some positive reinforcement. Especially when it’s Harvard telling you that you’re smart. Harvard Business just posted a piece bemoaning the state of the modern conferences and suggesting some ways to improve them. We couldn’t agree more. And [...]

Speaker focus: Hal Pomeranz and Command-line Fu

Hal Pomeranz is an IT consultant and veteran of the open source world. He will be presenting Command-line Kung Fu in June. For me, Open Source software is very much about leverage. Open Source tools allow their creators to share their own productivity enhancements with the entire community, thereby making everybody more efficient. That’s powerful. [...]

Open Source Bridge hacker lounge: Make your time

Of the many, many cool things happening at Open Source Bridge, we have to admit: the hacker lounge is one of our favorites. We can’t wait to see what this group of open source citizens create with unlimited 24-hour access to hacking space. If you’re as excited as we are to get to hacking, we’d [...]