Open Source Bridge » open source 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 Volunteer Appreciation & Info Night – 1/27 from 6-9pm http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/12/volunteer-appreciation-info-night-127-from-6-9pm/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/12/volunteer-appreciation-info-night-127-from-6-9pm/#comments Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:33:16 +0000 shepherdg http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2671 You are invited to a night of merry-making, fun-seeking, and general geekery celebrating the volunteers of Open Source Bridge! Enjoy some food and holiday grog, watch a slide show of photos previous years and listen to a short talk about volunteering. There will even be some celebratory piñata whacking.

Will you be able to sign up to volunteer for OSB 2012? Yes! Core team members will be on hand throughout the evening to answer your quesitons and help you sign up to help out with Open Source Bridge 2012.

This invitation is open to all volunteers of Open Source Bridge; past, present and future. Please bring yourself, a friend and anyone else interested in volunteering.

When
Friday, January 27, 2012, 6pm – 9pm

Where
Collective Agency
322 NW Sixth Ave., Suite 200
Portland, OR 97209

Calagator link:

We look forward to seeing you at the party!

]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/12/volunteer-appreciation-info-night-127-from-6-9pm/feed/ 0 Find OSB11 Speakers at OSCON http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/07/find-osb11-speakers-at-oscon/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2011/07/find-osb11-speakers-at-oscon/#comments Sat, 23 Jul 2011 18:40:02 +0000 melissa http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=2608 We’re quite proud of our speakers and want to continue to promote the open source work they are doing. If you didn’t catch any of the following people at Open Source Bridge, you’ll have a chance to see them speak at OSCON next week. And be sure to attend the Event Planning for Geeks talk, presented by three of our organizers!

Lance Albertson: Ganeti Web Manager: Cluster Management Made Simple and **Hands-on Virtualization with Ganeti

Matt Blair: **Cultivating Open Geo-Data in the Real-World: A Guided Tour of Three Portland-based Projects

Roger Bodamer: Building Web Applications with MongoDB and **Not Only SQL: Exploring Alternative Data Stores

Eric Day: **Introduction to OpenStack

Selena Deckelmann: Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger: PostgreSQL 9.1 and Mistakes Were Made

Audrey Eschright: Event Planning for Geeks

Paul Fenwick: **All Your Brains Suck – Known Bugs And Exploits In Wetware

Dawn Foster: **Crunching the numbers: Open Source Community Metrics

Eric Holscher: **A Completely Open Source Django Website

Christie Koehler, co-chair of Open Source Bridge: Event Planning for Geeks and Tools for Spelunking a New-to-You Codebase

Peter Krenesky: Ganeti Web Manager: Cluster Management Made Simple and **Hands-on Virtualization with Ganeti

Shyam Mani: **DNSSEC @ Mozilla

Jeremie Miller: **Your Personal Data Locker

Sherri Montgomery: Event Planning for Geeks

Sarah Novotny, program chair of OSCON: OSCON Town Hall

Noirin Plunkett: How to Win Friends and Write Documentation

Jacinta Richardson: Perl Programming Best Practices 2011 and Teach Your Class to Fish, and They’ll Have Food for a Lifetime

Garrett Serack: **CoApp—An Open Source Package Manager For Windows

Sarah Sharp: **Growing Food with Open Source

Chris Smith: **Transit Appliances: Open Data, Open Hardware and Open Source Software

James Turnbull: **Introduction to OpenStack and Vagrant & Puppet: Deploying Development Environments … Fast

Matt Youell: Wheeler

If you enjoyed these talks, be sure to register for Open Source Bridge 2012 to see more of these great speakers and topics.

[All talks with ** by them are a variation of a presentation given at Open Source Bridge this year.]

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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

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So, that’s console-presenter and showoff, so far. I also know some very bold presenters use LaTeX with Beamer for theirs.

What do you use? And why?

(And while you’re here – Don’t forget to mark your favorite conference sessions to help us with scheduling! It’s easy – get logged in, and then just click on the stars next to sessions you like.)

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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’d like to thank our Advocate sponsors – Google, Facebook and the Rackspace Cloud. Without them, this conference wouldn’t be happening. We also have many other sponsors listed, and are looking for more! If you’d like to support our grassroots, community-organized conference this year, please get in touch!

Without further ado:

Culture

Cooking

Hacks

Chemistry

Business

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Danny O’Brien will explore how open source can help those at the cutting edge of free expression, and will detail tools that writers and speakers in repressive regimes need. Leigh Honeywell will be discussing hacker spaces, and the culture of DIY spaces for making things around the world. Mayor Sam Adams will give an update on Portland’s open source and open data initiatives, and hopefully kick off a round of hacking on CivicApps.

We’ve honored to have these inspiring keynote presenters this year! We have accepted over 80 talks so far, and will be publishing our initial list of talks on Monday morning.

Registration is open, and we hope you can join us!

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This event will be a great place to learn about open source GIS tools, meet fellow practitioners, share your geo-related topic or project, and get feedback and ideas. The event’s unique format combines invited talks by seasoned presenters and unconference sessions where the attendees set the agenda.

You can expect to learn about several desktop GIS programs with powerful analytical capacities, a web mapping framework (GeoDjango), the spatial database (PostGIS), image processing (GDAL), and more:

  • Register for the PDX Open Source GIS Unconference
  • Join the Portland Open Source Geospatial User Group mailing list
  • Find the Portland Open Source Geospatial User Group meetings
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Photo by Igal Koshevoy

Our mighty volunteer army hacking away at our last code sprint

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:

  1. Audio: We need to process last year’s audio from our sessions and be ready to quickly process this upcoming year’s audio. It would be great if you could download the 2009 event’s audio, familiarize yourself with it, think about how to clean it up so it can be posted, and bring it along with your computer to the sprint.
  2. Wiki: We want to provide useful information to our attendees and offer structure to help them organize and contribute information through our wiki. There is a lot of useful content on our 2009 wiki that can be used as inspiration for content to add to the 2010 wiki.
  3. OpenConferenceWare: We have a few branches containing valuable contributions to our open source conference software that we’d like to finish reviewing and testing so we can incorporate them, including security improvements, performance fixes and software upgrades.
  4. Complimentary ticket issuer: We’d like to make it easier for our volunteer staff to be able to issue complimentary tickets to speakers, raffle winners, and volunteers. We have developed a plan (PDF) for doing this, and need to start development.
  5. Hacker lounge planning: We have a 24-hour on-site “hacker lounge” this year for attendees to collaborate and hang out at. We need to discuss how to organize events in this room to provide just enough structure to help attendees without stifling their creativity.
  6. Logistics, venue and activity planning: We’re using the beautiful Portland Art Museum Mark Building as our venue this year. Discuss how to make the best use of this space and incorporate fun activities ranging from mobile donut trucks to on-site massages with our logistics crew.
  7. Or whatever you think would be helpful.

Thanks and see you at the sprint!

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]]> http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/walking-through-the-hacker-lounge/feed/ 3 Thanks to our sponsors for helping make Open Source Bridge a reality http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/thanks-to-our-sponsors-for-helping-make-open-source-bridge-a-reality/ http://opensourcebridge.org/blog/2009/06/thanks-to-our-sponsors-for-helping-make-open-source-bridge-a-reality/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:35:15 +0000 Rick Turoczy http://opensourcebridge.org/?p=1266 With less than 24-hours to go until we open the doors to Open Source Bridge, we’re in the eye of the storm. A brief moment of calm to reflect and give credit where credit is due.

We realize how lucky we are. We’ve been able to attract a wealth of phenomenal open source speakers. We’ve had volunteers dedicate innumerable hours. We’ve had an amazing response from the open source community. And we’ve had all of the Portland tech community rooting us on.

But we wouldn’t be where we are today without our sponsors, those people who believed in a conference for open source citizens and who helped underwrite it.

To all of our sponsors, we’d like to say “Thank you” once again.

Committer Level

Advocate Level

Citizen Level

Friends Level

Media Sponsors

We’re looking forward to seeing all of you, tomorrow.

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