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Volunteer Sprint: Daily Cafe, February 6, 9am-?

February 2, 2010 – 9:12 am

Our first Open Source Bridge volunteer sprint will be this Saturday, February 6 starting at 9am at the Daily Cafe.

Interested in helping out? Some things that need to be done are:

Marketing/Fundraising:

  • Contacting user groups with ’save the dates’
  • Reaching out to potential sponsors
  • Updating content on the website, wiki
  • Helping to outline future areas of content we should add, blog post topics

Technical:

  • Processing audio and video from last year’s event. A copy of Audacity and a laptop would be helpful for this
  • Work on a pre-conference attendee demographics survey
  • Research on a Customer Relations Management (CRM) system, testing requirements and presenting results to the OS Bridge team
  • Collaborate with the Open Conference Ware team on a ticket purchasing system (starting with Google Checkout, probably also Paypal)

More details on technical projects are available at: http://opensourcebridge.org/planning/teams/tech/projects

Let us know on the mailing list or in the comments that you’re planning to attend so we can stake out tablespace.

Thanks!

Photo courtesy of selenamarie under a Creative Commons license.

By selena | Posted in Volunteering, announcement | Tagged , , | Comments (5)

Town Hall happened – Now what?

January 28, 2010 – 10:14 pm

Thanks to the 30+ people who showed up to our inaugural town hall! We saw familiar and new faces and got down to the business of organizing the conference. Ed graciously recorded a video, which we’ll publish as soon as its ready.

I forgot to mention a few important things for the new comers – like we’re having the same format as last year! Five talk types, over three days, and a full day of unconferencing on Friday. The presentation lists the many, many areas we’re looking for volunteers to assist with.

If you’d like to help out, have a look at the presentation, and sign up on our volunteer page.

Finally, we are going to be opening up the request for proposals Very Soon. Within days (we like to call this “February 1st-ish”). We’ll announce here, so stay tuned!!

If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our mailing list as well. All important communication will be happening there.

By selena | Posted in Uncategorized, Volunteering, about, conference, presentation | Comments (3)

Open Source Bridge 2010 town hall meeting on January 28 (reminder)

January 26, 2010 – 3:26 pm

Selena Deckelmann welcomes Open Source Bridge 2009 attendees, photo by Aaron Hockley

Join other Open Source Citizens at Nedspace Old Town for a Town Hall meeting this Thursday at 7PM and help us prepare us for our 2010 conference.

Meet the Organization Team and hear about what we want to continue to do right this year, the improvements we want to make, the conference venues we’re considering, and when you can submit your proposals.

We also really want to hear your input and ideas on sessions you’d like to see this year. Open Source Bridge cannot happen without community involvement. Come hear the volunteer opportunities we need filled and sign up to make your event a success.

  • What: Open Source Bridge 2010 Town Hall
  • Where: Nedspace, Old Town – 117 NW Fifth Ave.
  • When: Thursday, January 28, 7pm
  • Why: Because it is your conference!
By Igal Koshevoy | Posted in Volunteering, announcement, citizenship, conference | Comments (8)

Open Source Bridge 2010 town hall meeting on January 28

January 19, 2010 – 10:41 am

The Conference for Open Source Citizens is back for 2010. Join the Open Source Bridge Organization Team for a Town Hall. We’ll be sharing our plans for this year’s conference, as well as announcing the date we’ll open the call for proposals. We also want to hear your input about the sessions you’d like to see this year:

Open Source Bridge 2009 contingent in Pioneer Square by Rick Turoczy

  • What: Open Source Bridge 2010 Town Hall
  • Where: Nedspace, Oldtown – 117 NW Fifth Ave. (between Couch and Davis)
  • When: Thursday, January 28, 7PM

Open Source Bridge cannot happen without community involvement. Come hear the volunteer opportunities we need filled and sign up to make your event a success:

By Igal Koshevoy | Posted in News, announcement, citizenship, conference | Comments (3)

It’s (almost) all over but the after party

June 19, 2009 – 9:31 am

We’re kicking off the last day of Open Source Bridge—the unconference day. And while we’re sad to see this entirely volunteer run event coming to a close, we’re looking forward to celebrating what we’ve accomplished with all of the attendees, speakers, volunteers—and the Portland tech community.

So let’s do that, shall we?

The official after party will start with Beer and Blog—Portland’s tech happy hour—starting at 4 PM at Webtrends. (Beer and Blog will also be going on at the Green Dragon, as usual. But the Portland crowd plans to migrate over at Webtrends as the afternoon wears on.)

But wait, there’s more.

The party will continue—around 8 PM-ish—as we move across the street to the Open Source Bridge hacker lounge at the top of the Hilton for more Strange Love Live, the best tech podcast in Portland, if not the world.

If you had the chance to chat with Strange Love Live at the conference, you’ll want to get on the set again. Because this time around, it’s all afterhours, all the time. In other words, no holds barred on the conversations—tech or otherwise.

Both after parties are open to the public, whether you attended Open Source Bridge or not. So come on down and join us in closing out the first Open Source Bridge.

By Rick Turoczy | Posted in Extracurricular | Tagged , | Comments (3)