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Peeking at the proposals: Hacks

March 3, 2009 – 1:55 pm

Time now to take another look at all of the cool content that’s being proposed for Open Source Bridge.
Today’s topic? A perennial favorite: Hacks.
What does Hacks entail exactly?
Tinkering, experimenting and bending the rules to make hardware and software do what we want.
Hacks are clever. They break the rules. They force the available material into doing [...]

By Rick Turoczy | Posted in citizenship, content | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Five Tracks to Rule Them All

March 2, 2009 – 1:55 pm

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 [...]

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