Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

User groups are a vital part of the open source way. Their regular meetings create local communities of practitioners that meet together to learn, share and have fun.

A group of experienced user group organizers will answer your questions and offer practical advice on starting a group, encouraging participation, branching out into activities like hackfests, and handling problems as they crop up.

Attendees will have the opportunity to get practical knowledge from a variety of user group leaders’ perspectives, and leave the session empowered to start their own user group or reinvigorate an existing one.

Participants:

• Audrey Eschright, moderator
• Igal Koshevoy, organizer of the Portland Ruby Brigade and Portland Functional Programming Study Group
• Jesse Hallett, organizer of the Portland JavaScript Admirers
• Eric Wilhelm, organizer of the Portland Perl Mongers
• Christie Koehler, co-organizer of Code-n-Splode
• Gabrielle Roth, co-organizer of Code-n-Splode and the Portland PostgreSQL Users Group
• Sam Keen, organizer of PDXPHP

Tags

user groups, organizing, leadership

Speakers

• 

  Audrey Eschright

  • 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

  • * 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
• 

  Jesse Hallett

  Jive Software, Portland JavaScript Admirers, Portland Ruby Brigade
  • Website: http://sitr.us/
  • Twitter: hallettj
  • Identi.ca: hallettj
  • Favorites: View Jesse's favorites

  Biography

  Jesse Hallett works on JavaScript full-time at Jive Software and loves every minute of it. Before that he sent some time designing web applications with Ruby on Rails. Jesse also participates in a number of Portland user groups, including the Portland JavaScript Admirers, The Portland Ruby Brigade, and the Portland Functional Study Group

  Sessions

  • * Professional JavaScript
    • Title: Professional JavaScript
    • Track: Chemistry
    • Room: Morrison
    • Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
    • Excerpt:

      JavaScript is a unique and powerful language. Its ubiquity in the browser and its elegant concurrency model make JavaScript an ideal tool in a number of situations. Learn about the best ways to use and to understand this language from a full-time JavaScript professional.

    • Speakers: Jesse Hallett
  • * 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
• 

  Sam Keen

  pdxphp
  • Website: http://pdxphp.org/
  • Blog: http://releaesethecodes.com/
  • Twitter: samkeen
  • Identi.ca: samkeen
  • Favorites: View Sam's favorites

  Biography

  Been in web development since about 1997. Started with Java J2EE but quickly transitioned to PHP and my primary language.

  Founded phxphp.org User group in 2004 and has been going strong ever since.
  I’ve helped to found and organizes local events such as the Winter and Summer coders socials and Rasmus Lerdorf talks when he is in town.

  Currently contracting full-time with Mozilla, back in school for a Mathematics degree, and looking for an excuse to dive into python.

  Sessions

  • * 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
  • * PDXPHP meetup / Details of HipHop for PHP from the source: Haiping Zhao of Facebook
    • Title: PDXPHP meetup / Details of HipHop for PHP from the source: Haiping Zhao of Facebook
    • Track: BoF
    • Room: Morrison
    • Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      PHP Meetup with Haiping Zhoa, Rasmus and others.

    • Speakers: Sam Keen, Haiping Zhao
• 

  Christie Koehler

  CK Web Development
  • Website: http://www.christiekoehler.com/
  • Blog: http://www.subfictional.com/
  • Twitter: christiekoehler
  • Favorites: View Christie's favorites

  Biography

  Christie Koehler is owner of CK Web Development, a web development and design company based in Portland, Oregon. She has developed a number of custom applications for businesses, including: learning and content management systems, human resources database applications, and company intranet portals. Christie has also worked with clients to implement and extend Open Source software such as Wordpress, ExpressionEngine and vBulletin.

  When not pursuing many topics in Open Source programming, Christie enjoys cycling, studies Hatha yoga, practices Zen Buddhism and hikes among the many wonderful trails available in the Pacific Northwest.

  Sessions

  • * 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
  • * 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
  • * Code 'n' Splode
    • Title: Code 'n' Splode
    • Track: BoF
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Supporting the participation of women in the Portland tech community

    • Speakers: Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Addie Beseda
• 

  Igal Koshevoy

  Open Source Bridge Foundation
  • Website: http://pragmaticraft.com/
  • Blog: http://twitter.com/igalko
  • Twitter: igalko
  • Identi.ca: igalko
  • Favorites: View Igal's favorites

  Biography

  Business-Technology Consultant, creating sophisticated applications using Ruby, Python, Java and UNIX.

  Open source contributor and community organizer:

  • Open Source Bridge conference — Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
  • Calagator tech events calendar — Co-Founder, Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
  • pdxruby, Portland Ruby Brigade — User Group Leader
  • pdxfunc, Portland Functional Programming Study Group — User Group Leader
  • WhereCampPDX — Co-organizer of geospatial conference
  • Ignite Portland, Corvallis and Bend — Senior Software Engineer and Systems Manager
  • Legion of Tech — Advisory Board Member
  • OpenConferenceWare — Author of an open source web-based conference software suite, which is running this site
  • OpenProposals — Author of an open source web-based proposal collection system for Ignite-like events, the basis for OpenConferenceWare
  • AutomateIt — Author of an open source server automation tool, which is running this site’s server

  Sessions

  • * 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
  • * How to write quality software using the magic of tests
    • Title: How to write quality software using the magic of tests
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Broadway
    • Time: 10:00 – 11:45am
    • Excerpt:

      Writing quality software is a worthwhile challenge. Learn how to harness the magic of testing to create better software. This presentation will provide you with an overview of the different kinds of tests, show code using different testing tools, and help you decide when and how to apply these to your projects

    • Speakers: Igal Koshevoy
  • * 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
• 

  gabrielle roth

  Code-n-Splode/PDXPUG
  • Twitter: gorthx
  • Favorites: View gabrielle's favorites

  Biography

  Gabrielle Roth is a Network Engineer, but is still a biology geek at heart. She lives in Portland, OR with a small but ambitious Monstera deliciosa, Mia. After OSCON 2007, she started Code-n-Splode as an effort to get more women involved in open source projects. When she’s not tinkering with networks or databases, she enjoys crashing her mountain bike & practicing parade formations with the PostgreSQL Army of Smurfs.

  Sessions

  • * 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
  • * PostgreSQL
    • Title: PostgreSQL
    • Track: BoF
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Meet up with local & not-so-local Pg users & developers.

    • Speakers: gabrielle roth
  • * Code 'n' Splode
    • Title: Code 'n' Splode
    • Track: BoF
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 7:00 – 8:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      Supporting the participation of women in the Portland tech community

    • Speakers: Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Addie Beseda

• Eric Wilhelm

  Scratch Computing
  • Website: http://scratchcomputing.com/
  • Identi.ca: ericwilhelm
  • Favorites: View Eric's favorites

  Biography

  Perl Hacker, President of Portland Perl Mongers.

  Sessions

  • * Hair and Yak Again -- A Hacker's Tale
    • Title: Hair and Yak Again -- A Hacker's Tale
    • Track: Chemistry
    • Room: St. Johns
    • Time: 3:45 – 4:30pm
    • Excerpt:

      API design, parallelism, automated testing, parallel automated testing, deployment, build tools, meta programming, GUI design and construction, hardware interfaces, network protocols, databases, change tracking, file formats, and why simple software becomes an epic journey.

    • Speakers: Eric Wilhelm
  • * 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