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Calling all User Groups

Say you were organizing a kick-ass conference that wasn’t focused on specific technologies or languages, but rather on being an open source citizen.
You’d want to contact all the user groups out there, and not just the local ones, hosted in your city, but the ones in other cities around the world. You’d want to get [...]

Calling all Students

Here’s an Easter Egg that might surprise you.
If you’re a student, you can register and attend Open Source Bridge for the low, low price of $99.
You read that right. $99 and all you need to do is show us your current student identification when you arrive at the conference.
Not a bad deal.
Since we began organizing [...]

Five Tracks to Rule Them All

The track names for Open Source Bridge are a little unusual. No Ruby, Perl, System Administration, Linux—instead we have Cooking, Chemistry, Culture, Hacks (and Business, but you’ve seen that one elsewhere). So what’s going on? How are these relevant to open source software?
When we had our very first planning meeting for the conference, we made [...]

Our First Presentation

The Open Source Bridge team gave their first presentation to a large group at CubeSpace on October 30, 2008. Enthusiasm far exceeded my expectations, and I came away feeling confident that we’re going to make Open Source Bridge a reality together.

Lots of people took notes and hopefully will publish blog entries. I’ll link them [...]

Open Source Bridge Town Hall

Open Source Bridge will be a completely volunteer-run, community effort to connect developers working with open source. We’re kicking things off with a town hall discussion and planning meeting on October 30th, 7:30pm at CubeSpace (located at 622 SE Grand Avenue in Portland). We’ll talk about overall goals for the conference, then break into small [...]