Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
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Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
Description
Welcome to Open Source Bridge!
Amber Case will be speaking about being a cyborg citizen.
Kurt Von Fink will speak about the hacker business model.
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Speakers
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Amber Case
Hazelnut Consulting- Website: http://oakhazelnut.com/
- Favorites: View Amber's favorites
Biography
Amber Case is a Cyborg Anthropologist and Consultant currently living in Portland, Oregon. She founded CyborgCamp, a conference on the future of humans and computers. She has spoken at various industry conferences including MIT’s Futures of Entertainment and Inverge: The Interactive Convergence Conference. She’s also spoken at Ignite Portland and Ignite Boulder. She’ll be presenting an Introduction to Cyborg Anthropology at Portland’s Webvisions 2009. She also writes for Discovery Channel’s Nerdabout.com.
Case specializes in information architecture, usability, online productivity, strategy, and ground-breaking communication methods. She is currently writing a book on applying anthropological techniques to better understand industry ecosystems. Find her on Twitter @caseorganic.
Amber received her degree in Sociology/Anthropology from Lewis & Clark College in this Spring with a thesis on “The Cell Phone and Its Technosocial sites of Engagement”.
Sessions
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- Title: Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck
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Biography
Selena Deckelmann is an enthusiastic Open Source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. Her work ranges from the highly local–organizing the Portland PostgreSQL User Group–to planning national conferences, and international outreach to other user groups and events. She is also a founding board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit focused on connecting Portlanders through technology. She has presented at LUG Radio Live, OSCON and the Linux Plumbers Conference on working with Drupal, running user groups and measuring filesystem performance. She will be presenting at FOSDEM, SCaLE, PgCon and OSCON in 2009.
Sessions
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- Title: bzr vs git smack down
- Track: Cooking
- Room: Hawthorne
- Time: 5:00 – 5:45pm
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Excerpt:
Selena loves Git and EmmaJane loves Bazaar. And like all good nerds they’ve spent a fair amount of time talkin’ smack about the other’s version control system (VCS). Come see what the fuss is all about!
- Speakers: EmmaJane Hogbin, Selena Deckelmann
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- Title: Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck
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- Title: Thursday Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Ward Cunningham
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- Title: Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Welcome to the unconference day.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Chris Messina
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- Website: http://lifeofaudrey.com/
- Blog: http://dyepot-teapot.com/
- Twitter: spinnerin
- Favorites: View Audrey's favorites
Biography
Programmer at Elevated Code working with Ruby, Rails, and occasionally iPhone development. Writer of essays, recipes, horror comics, and knitting patterns. Photographer working with digital and film cameras, including Polaroid, Holga, and pinholes. Community organizer of unconferences like WhereCampPDX. Core team member of the infamous Calagator. Agitator for a variety of grassroots local tech.
Sessions
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- Title: Effective code sprinting
- Track: Culture
- Room: Burnside
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
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Excerpt:
Code sprints are events where developers quickly complete coding tasks in a collaborative environment. A panel of skilled developers will share their experiences for organizing effective code sprints so you can better participate and organize your own. The panel members have organized and participated in over a hundred sprints (ranging from Django to JRuby) and used sprints as the primary way to develop community-oriented projects (e.g., Calagator). While most of the discussion will be about volunteer-run open source code sprints, many of the ideas will be readily applicable to improving development at your workplace. The panel will offer practical, actionable advice that you can use and answer your questions.
- Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels, Audrey Eschright
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- Title: Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck
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- Title: Thursday Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Ward Cunningham
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- Title: Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Welcome to the unconference day.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Chris Messina
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Kurt von Finck
Monty Program- Website: http://askmonty.org/
- Blog: http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/
- Identi.ca: mneptok
Biography
I am an aging male who currently is hurtling toward his fate in Albuquerque, New Mexico USA. I am owned by a female of my own species, as well as several cats and birds. I’m a Buddhist, a libertarian, a good cook, a free software missionary, a rusty musician, a former actor, a Unix wonk, a retired amateur athlete, a student of medieval history, an a.s.r monk, an Internet veteran (BITnet too), a good skiier, a world-class sleeper, and I like to travel when cash allows.
I’m terrible on skates and I know no formal dances. My appearance is often dishevelled, but I clean up nicely. I own more than two suits and a tuxedo (black, tails, cummerbund).
I’m passionate about what I believe in but will also be the first to tell you not to take me seriously. I think I’m an alright person, but am worried because I’m so often wrong. I don’t want or need your validation, but yet I don’t want you to dislike me. I don’t eat anything that comes out of the sea, oddly. Maybe tuna. Or fried clams.
I’m currently the Chief Community and Communications Officer for Monty Program Ab. If it’s in the project and you can’t fix it with a text editor, version control, and an Internet connection, see me. If you have questions about what we do and how we do it, let’s talk.
Sessions
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- Title: Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
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Excerpt:
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
- Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck