Open Source Bridge 2010 Birds of a Feather proposals

Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions are informal meetups where the attendees group together based on a shared interest and carry out discussions.

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* MySQL BoF (Confirmed)

Meet up with Michael "Monty" Widenius for meeting about the MySQL ecosystem.
BoF 06/02/2010 10:13AM
Michael Widenius

* Testing BOF! (Confirmed)

Come join us in talking about the state of testing in Open Source.
BoF 06/01/2010 12:44PM
Adam Christian

* Opening up Your Gov: Stakeholders Forum (Confirmed)

Transparency advocates, government data owners/shepherds, technologists , privacy advocates, policy analysts and wonks and anyone else with an interest in what it takes to create an open government meet to discuss their needs and challenges from their perspective in an open and facilitated forum.
BoF 05/24/2010 12:04PM
Deborah Bryant

* Code 'n' Splode (Confirmed)

Supporting the participation of women in the Portland tech community
BoF 05/24/2010 12:04AM
Christie Koehler, Addie Beseda, gabrielle roth

* PDXPHP meetup / Details of HipHop for PHP from the source: Haiping Zhao of Facebook (Confirmed)

PHP Meetup with Haiping Zhoa, Rasmus and others.
BoF 05/21/2010 12:20PM
Haiping Zhao, Sam Keen

* NoSQL - will relational alternatives finally catch on? (Confirmed)

A general discussion of NoSQL databases, what they're good for and where they fit in the database world.
BoF 05/20/2010 02:49PM
Kimbro Staken

* Photowalk with Aaron Hockley (Confirmed)

A photowalk in downtown Portland with a couple "new school" photographers
BoF 05/20/2010 08:44AM
Aaron Hockley

* PostgreSQL (Confirmed)

Meet up with local & not-so-local Pg users & developers.
BoF 05/18/2010 11:22AM
gabrielle roth

* Google Summer of Code Meetup (Confirmed)

An opportunity to meet with other Google Summer of Code students, mentors, admins, and future participants. Learn how you can get involved, or share your personal experience with the program and give feedback on what works and how things could work better.
BoF 05/18/2010 08:39AM
Ellen Ko

* Civic Engagement Meetup (Confirmed)

Come talk to other Portland software developers about how to engage with each other, the city of Portland, the Portland Development Commission.
BoF 05/15/2010 04:13PM
Audrey Eschright, Christie Koehler

* Maatkit Discussion (Confirmed)

Discussion of all things Maatkit, hosted by Maatkit's primary developer.
BoF 05/14/2010 04:46PM
Daniel Nichter

* Ruby meetup (Confirmed)

Join your fellow Rubyists to talk about fun things you're working on.
BoF 05/13/2010 01:01PM
Audrey Eschright, Reid Beels, Igal Koshevoy

* Open Data BoF (Confirmed)

A gathering for all those interested in open data, including government data, open data APIs, geodata, open social data, and more.
BoF 05/13/2010 01:00PM
Kirrily Robert

* Privacy as a Choice (Confirmed)

Giving up personal information seems to be the price of entry for much of the Internet today. Can't we make it a choice again?
BoF 05/13/2010 12:27PM
Cyrus Nemati