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.

Ah monster trucks.

Anyway, we’re hosting a volunteer-a-thon this Sunday, 10 AM to 4 PM, starting at Ristretto Coffee for coffee, and migrating to Lompoc 5th Quadrant for lunch.

Want to help? Here’s what we’ll be doing:

Join us to work on one or more of these for Open Source Bridge this weekend:

1. Code: Add features and specs to the OpenConferenceWare conference
app. Join in if you’ve got Ruby on Rails coding experience, such as
contributing code to Calagator.

2. Text: Compose documents for outreach to user groups, educational
institutions, open source projects, and the like.

3. Outreach: Contact user group leaders, educators, open source
projects, mailing lists, etc to encourage them to spread the word about
the conference and submit proposals.

We’ll meet up at Ristretto at 10am, then move on to a working lunch
nearby at the Lompoc 5th Quadrant. Some members will leave as soon as
2pm, but others will stay on later. Join us for however much of this you
can.

Thanks!
-igal

Join us! First three people to make it to Ristretto in the morning get one of these open source nerd merit badges.

Cross-posted on Calagator and Selena’s blog.

Hope to see you there.