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Thursday Night Fun: Startup Crawl (with Beer)

It’s much like a traditional pub crawl, but with libations served at several local starups.
Our Advocate Level sponsor, Facebook, will be hosting Thursday evening’s starup crawl. We’ll begin with a party at at Kell’s Irish Pub from 6:00 to 7:00 PM. Don’t forget to bring your conference badge as it’s required to get [...]

Hotel Discounts Around Portland: May 31-June 5

We hope you’ll be joining us at Open Source Bridge! If you’re looking for a place to stay, Travel Command has helped us line up some hotel discounts. In order to reserve a room at the rates below, email Travel Command at: osb@travelcommand.com

Ace Hotel: $109.00 per night
Jupiter Hotel: $75.00 per night
Paramount Hotel: $94.00 per night
Benson [...]

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 [...]

Volunteer Sprint: Saturday, February 27 11am to 4pm

Please join us Saturday, February 27, 2010  for a Volunteer Work Sprint and tour of the PAM’s Mark Building!

Join us at the McMenamins Market Street Pub (1526 S.W. 10th, Portland OR 97201) at 11am to work on a myriad of fun and exciting tasks guaranteed to help make Open Source Bridge 2010 a raging success!

Help [...]

Open Source Bridge final schedule: Let the “how am I going to go to all of these cool talks?” begin

We, here at Open Source Bridge, have been humbled and awed by the amount of involvement from open source citizens around the world. First, we had a ton of proposal pour into our proposal system. Then we got a ton of comments about which speakers should be selected. Finally, we’ve had continued feedback on the [...]