Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

From targeted advertising based on your site profile or browsing habits, to checkins on geolocation services like Foursquare or Gowalla, we know we’re putting a substantial amount of personal data out there for others to use. And as developers, we may find ourselves stumbling into hot button areas we don’t know how to handle.

We’ll explore personal data usage and try to sort out what elements create creepy or fun outcomes for the user, then talk about how to hack together experiments that reveal collisions between our underlying assumptions and how data is actually being used.

Attendees will take away a better understanding of why people share personal data, what they expect to get from it, and how not to be so creepy (unless that’s what you’re after).

Tags

geolocation, creepy, fun, social technology, social software, stalking, sharing, privacy

Speaker

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  Audrey Eschright

  • Website: http://lifeofaudrey.com/
  • Blog: http://dyepot-teapot.com/
  • Twitter: spinnerin
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  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

  • * The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun
    • Title: The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun
    • Track: Hacks
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 3:45 – 4:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Social software is kind of a big deal right now. In the open-source spirit of transparency and dissection, let’s talk about what makes social technology creepy, what makes it fun, and how to hack things to maximize your desired outcome.

    • Speakers: Audrey Eschright
  • * Organizing user groups, a panel discussion
    • Title: Organizing user groups, a panel discussion
    • Track: Culture
    • Room: Morrison
    • Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
    • Excerpt:

      User groups are a vital part of the open source community. Learn more about how to start a group, keep it going, and make an existing group better from a panel of experienced user group organizers.

    • Speakers: Igal Koshevoy, Jesse Hallett, Eric Wilhelm, Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Audrey Eschright, Sam Keen
  • * Ruby meetup
    • Title: Ruby meetup
    • Track: BoF
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Join your fellow Rubyists to talk about fun things you’re working on.

    • Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Igal Koshevoy, Reid Beels
  • * Civic Engagement Meetup
    • Title: Civic Engagement Meetup
    • Track: BoF
    • Room: Morrison
    • Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Come talk to other Portland software developers about how to engage with each other, the city of Portland, the Portland Development Commission.

    • Speakers: Christie Koehler, Audrey Eschright