Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
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Welcome to the unconference day.
Description
A short introduction to unconferences, and session scheduling.
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unconference
Speaking experience
Speakers
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- Favorites: View Selena's favorites
Biography
Selena Deckelmann is a consultant and database analyst for Emma.
She’s a major contributor to PostgreSQL. She speaks internationally about free software, developer communities and trolling. Her interests include opening up government data with the City of Portland, urban chickens and finding ways to make databases run faster.
You can find her on twitter at @selenamarie.
She founded and was co-chair of Open Source Bridge for its inaugural years, a developer conference for open source citizens. She helped found the PostgreSQL Conference, a successful series of east coast/west coast conferences in the US for PostgreSQL. She’s helped run other conferences like WhereCampPDX, BarCampPDX and PG Days. She is currently on the organizing committees for PgCon and MySQL Users Conference. She’s a contributing writer for the Google Summer of Code Mentor Manual, and Student Guide.
She founded the pdx11.org site, which is putting a spotlight on the City of Portland’s efforts to transform the Portland tech industry.
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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Chris Messina
Google- Website: http://factoryjoe.com/
- Blog: http://factoryjoe.com/blog
- Twitter: chrismessina
- Favorites: View Chris' favorites
Biography
Born in New Hampshire, I trained as a communication designer at CMU. I left for California and have been into the open web ever since.
I now work at Google.
See also: http://wiki.factoryjoe.com/Bio
Sessions
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- Title: Social network supermarkets and how to defeat them
- Track: Culture
- Room: Fremont
- Time: 11:20am – 12:05pm
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Excerpt:
The open source ecosystem operates at human scale, and yet the most popular social networks today are mammoths, where an open source citizen has limited agency with little to no ability to change her environment. Furthermore, efforts like OpenSocial serve to further limit what independents can build outside of the major networks, culminating in a threat the very essence of what makes the open/open source community thrive: choice and marketplace competition guaranteed through the ability to fork.
- Speakers: Chris Messina
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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