June 26–29, 2012 | Portland, Oregon
You know what I love about open source? That we can name a conference something a little awkward like “Open Source Bridge”, and no marketing department stops us. There’s a project called Drizzle, that was forked from a commercial company and a team of what traditionally might be considered competitors ran with it. We can [...]
We’ve been to any number of open source conferences. And for as much as we get out of the sessions, we always seem to get just as much—if not more—from the time spent with other developers. Whether it’s camping out in the hallway, hanging out in coffee shops, or late-night code sessions at the hotel, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
