June 1–4, 2010 | Portland, Oregon
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, spending [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As we’ve begun introducing Open Source Bridge to the community, we’ve described it as a conference about “open source citizenship.” But what does that mean, exactly?
Audrey Eschright, one of the co-founders of the conference, took some time to delve into the concept of open source citizenship:
We’re planning a conference that will connect developers across projects, [...]
