Paul Fenwick's favorites
Open Source Bridge 2011
Favorite sessions for this user
* "Why did you do that?" You're more automated than you think.
Your brain is really good at surviving in neolithic Africa, but not because of our powers of higher levels of thought; they're much too slow. Humans are so successful as a species because we're champions at automating things, including our own thoughts and behaviours.
What's fascinating is that we're profoundly unaware of just how much our own lives run on automatic, and just how much our own behaviour is influenced by external factors. Join internationally acclaimed speaker Paul Fenwick as we examine the fascinating world of the human mind.
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Culture |
| Paul Fenwick | |
* Bitcoin 101
An introduction to the cryptocurrency system called Bitcoin. The cryptography, the economics of currency bootstrapping, and the traction its getting today.
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Culture |
| Don Park | |
* ePUB - What, Why, and How
ePUB is the open e-book standard. Building on previous open standards, the ePUB format allows for flexible and flowing documentation, perfect for viewing on a variety of devices where the forced page sizing of other formats fails. We'll crack open some ePUB files and take a look at the innards and then we'll check out some tools to make ePUB generation less painful.
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Cooking |
| Jason LaPier | |
* Geek Fitness: Your Body is not Just Transportation for Your Brain
Optimize your productivity by keeping your body healthy. Learn how to prevent 'laptop back' and RSI; extend your workday by taking care of your body.
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Chemistry |
| Kurt Sussman | |
* Get 'Em While They're Young: Cultivating the Next Generation of Open Source Contributors
Many open source projects participate in college mentorship programs, but what about younger students? Should we be cultivating the next generation of contributors from an earlier age?
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Culture |
| Jane Wells | |
* Growing Food with Open Source
Open source folks are naturally lazy. Anything mundane task they can automate, they will. So what does an open source developer do when faced with planning, planting, and tediously watering a garden? Automate!
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Hacks |
| Sarah Sharp | |
* How to Ask for Money
Have a project that just needs some cash to get off the ground? Need someone to fund beer and food for an event? Have a great idea and want to get paid for implementing it? Come find out how we did it.
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Business |
| Selena Deckelmann, J Chris Anderson, Teyo Tyree | |
* IRL: How Do Geeks Undermine Their Presentations and Conversations with Body Language
Many geeks are uncomfortable interacting IRL with clients or audiences but you don't have to be. There are some simple physical tricks to keeping an audience (of 1 or 1k) engaged and not undermining your skills and yourself.
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Hacks |
| Sarah Novotny | |
* Kick Asana
"Yoga for Geeks", sometimes known as "Yoga for Long-Haul Travelers", returns to Open Source Bridge! Come with your stiff shoulders, sore wrists, tight hips and aching back. Leave with ideas on how to incorporate 5 minutes of practice into your busy day to care for your body and mind.
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Culture |
| Sherri Montgomery | |
* Marketing: You're Soaking In It!
Come join me as I dispel some of the clouds of pollution which obscure the name of marketing, show how it can help your projects, reveal how--whether you realize it or not--you already use marketing every day and how that's a very good thing indeed.
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Business |
| VM Brasseur | |
* Modern Perl Made Painless
Improvements in Perl 5 over the past several years allow great programmers to do great things with less code. You too can turn your Perl 5 code from mere scripting into powerful, clear, and modern programming--with help from a few tools the world's best Perl programmers already know and love.
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Cooking |
| chromatic x | |
* Morning Keynote - Hacking for Freedom
The last year has shown the Internet and computers to be a major force for freedom and self-determination around the world. The presenter discusses his work as a hacktivist. Working with Anonymous and Telecomix, he has helped organized protests in support of WikiLeaks, provided communications support to Egypt and the Middle East, and generally fought the good fight.
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Culture |
| Peter Fein | |
* Seven Habits Of Highly Obnoxious Trolls
Developing more effective habits isn't just for the good guys. We'll discuss seven methodologies that make trolls more effective---and tell you what you can do about it.
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Culture |
| Bart Massey, Selena Deckelmann, Duke Leto | |
* Technical Debt
Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with - we take shortcuts to push out releases, deadlines need to be met, quick fixes slowly become the standard. In this talk, we will discuss what technical debt is, when it is acceptable and when it isn't, and strategies for effectively managing it, both on an independent and team level.
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Cooking |
| Elizabeth Naramore | |
* User, User, Who Art Thou?
What's going on in the mind of the user as they use your system? Did they choose it, or was it chosen for them? Do they like it or hate it? How can you tell? This talk discusses the types of users that exist, and their motivations.
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Cooking |
| Jacinta Richardson | |
Open Source Bridge 2010
Favorite sessions for this user
* Connecting to Web Services on Android
This presentation will show how to connect to REST-based web services from an Android application. We'll discuss HTTP programming as well as XML and JSON libraries. This presentation will include a live demo of an Android application.
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Cooking |
| Sean Sullivan | |
* Free Speech, Free Software Across the World
How does free software help defend free speech in repressive regimes? Danny O'Brien will draw from the records of the Committee to Protect Journalists to explore how open source can help those at the cutting edge of free expression.
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Culture |
| Danny O'Brien | |
* Functional Requirements: Thinking Like A Pirate
Creating functional requirements as a part of the planning process is like creating a treasure map. You want to get compensated for the value your cool built-with-open-source-thing is providing to your clients. Your clients want it to work better than what they originally had in mind. If you do the work upfront, you'll know when you've hit the X marks the spot.
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Business |
| Amye Scavarda, Bill Fitzgerald | |
* Geek Choir
This is exactly what it looks like: We're going to make you sing. ;)
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Culture |
| Michael Alan Brewer | |
* Give a Great Tech Talk
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours
doesn't. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your
ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the
situation warrants it) showing your code.
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Culture |
| Josh Berkus, Ian Dees | |
* Hair and Yak Again -- A Hacker's Tale
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.
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Chemistry |
| Eric Wilhelm | |
* Housetruck: Building a Victorian RV
As a "software person," I found the hard technologies of building with steel and wood made for a very different creative and hacking process. At the same time, I discovered many parallels to software development, embedded hardware, and even open-source philosophies.
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Hacks |
| John Labovitz | |
* How To Report A Bug
Bug reports drive Open Source, but too often it's a hostile experience. As a user, how do you report a bug without being treated like you're dumping a sack of crap on the developer's doorstep? As a developer, how do you encourage users to report bugs? This is not a tutorial, but an examination of the social aspects of bug reporting.
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Cooking |
| Michael Schwern | |
* Listening to Data - Sonification Using Open Source Tools
Hearing your data - exploratory data analysis by way of algorithmic composition
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Hacks |
| M. Edward (Ed) Borasky | |
* Making Robots Accessible to Everyone
I've been looking for an affordable, flexible, easy to learn robotics platform for years that I could use to teach kids the basics of programming/electronics/robotics. Last Fall, I finally found it.
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Culture |
| Brett Nelson, Jim Larson | |
* Move Your Asana
This yoga session is of benefit to anyone who sits and works on computers a lot. Breathing exercises and physical postures that can be done anytime to help maintain a healthy body and clear mind will be taught. Suggestions will be included for how to modify stretches to protect injuries and provide gentle opening.
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Culture |
| Sherri Montgomery | |
* OAuth: an Open Specification for Web Services
Curious about OAuth? Ever wondered why OAuth has steadily gained popularity among major API providers such as Google and Twitter? Ever wondered how OAuth helps streamline consuming data from other providers? Learn more about OAuth the specification and how to implement OAuth with PHP5. The session will cover the basics of OAuth, and follow up with an OAuth implementation using php.net/oauth.
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Hacks |
| John Jawed | |
* Open Source and the Open Social Web
Open Source software has been instrumental in the development of every revolutionary communications technology on the Internet. The Open social Web is no different.
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Chemistry |
| Evan Prodromou | |
* Organizing user groups, a panel discussion
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.
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Culture |
| Igal Koshevoy, Jesse Hallett, Eric Wilhelm, Christie Koehler, gabrielle roth, Audrey Eschright, Sam Keen | |
* Practical Facebook stalking with Open Source tools
Facebook are full of juicy information about your friends and strangers alike! Learn how to use some simple open source tools and techniques to learn more about them.
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Hacks |
| Paul Fenwick | |
* Teach your class to fish, and they'll have food for a lifetime.
You have so much you want to teach, how do you structure it so that your training course is both interesting and challenging? How much theory can you squeeze into an hour before your attendees have forgotten where you started? How do you structure your course to account for classes which move slower or faster than average? This talk will cover all of these answers and more.
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Business |
| Jacinta Richardson | |
* The $2 computer: ultraconstrained devices do your bidding
"Do you watch television? Is your furnace loud? Do you have $2?" My 7-year-old's marketing suggestions aside, building custom gadgets to improve your life is remarkably simple, and I'll prove it by building something on stage that you can duplicate at home.
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Hacks |
| David Hollingsworth | |
* The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun
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.
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Hacks |
| Audrey Eschright | |
* The Return of Command-Line Kung Fu
A follow-on to last year's highly popular presentation, Hal Pomeranz returns with another super-size helping of command-line madness!
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Cooking |
| Hal Pomeranz | |
* The Rise of Hacker Spaces
Leigh will be discussing hacker spaces, and the culture of DIY spaces for making things around the world.
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Culture |
| Leigh Honeywell | |
* The Story of Spaz: How to Give Away Everything, Make No Money, and Still Win
What motivates us as developers? How do we define success? Throughout the development of Spaz, we've learned a lot about what works, what doesn't, and what really matters. Come to hear the story, and participate in the discussion of how we define success in open source.
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Business |
| Edward Finkler | |
* Unlikely tools for pair programming
Co-conspirators Jamey Sharp and Josh Triplett get up to a lot of miscellaneous hacking mischief together. Much of this hacking occurs while staring at the same screen, and tag-teaming the keyboard. Sometimes this happens with the two of them in different places. We'll demo our favorite tools and invite audience contributions to the discussion.
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Cooking |
| Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett | |
* Using Modern Perl
Since 2001, Perl 5 has undergone a renaissance. Modern Perl programs are powerful, maintainable, and understandable. Come learn how to take advantage of perl circa 2010.
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Cooking |
| chromatic x | |
* Why the Sysadmin Hates Your Software
You've worked really hard on your software. It's stable and has lots of nice features and users love it. But your sysadmin hates it and complains about how hard it is to install, configure, and manage. What's up with that?
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Chemistry |
| Steve VanDevender | |
* Your Internets are Leaking
Using your computer on a public network is like having a conversation on a city bus: people you don't know can hear everything you say. They'll probably be polite and ignore you, but you still might not want to shout out your credit card number. Yet this is what your computer does. All the time. And you don't know it.
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Cooking |
| Reid Beels, Michael Schwern | |
Favorite proposals for this user
* Awesome things you've missed in Perl
Awesome things have been happening in Perl recently; so many that even if you've been paying close attention, you may have missed a few. In this talk we'll examine some of the coolest recent technologies for Perl programmers.
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Cooking | 03/25/2010 07:18PM |
| Paul Fenwick | ||
* Code Happier With The Cycle: Code, Test, Fail, Diff, Fix, Pass, Commit, Repeat
If I could convince developers of one thing it would be this: Writing tests and using version control together during development is the simplest way to improve your life. So I will.
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Cooking | 03/25/2010 06:12PM |
| Michael Schwern | ||
* Debt-Free: Technical Debt In Open Source Projects
Ship or fix? This choice presents itself to open source projects every day, and the consequences can be considerable. Learn how to control this "technical debt" in open source projects.
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Cooking | 03/15/2010 07:30AM |
| Brandon Savage | ||
* perl5i: Perl 5 Improved
perl5i is a single module bringing together the best magic Perl programmers have to offer catapulting the basic language forward. Suddenly everything is an object! Functions return objects and throw exceptions! You don't have to load six modules to work with files! Perl 5 is fun again!
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Hacks | 03/25/2010 05:52PM |
| Michael Schwern | ||
* REPENT!!! FOR THE END OF THE UNIX EPOCH IS NIGH!!!
SINNERS!! HEAR ME!! For too long have you lain contented and SLOTHFUL in the illusion that time is infinite! SOON the UNIX EPOCH will END and numbers will OVERFLOW their confines CLEANSING all in a flood the likes we have not seen since 1901!!! The SINS of your 32 BITS will chase your children and your children's children unless you REPENT NOW and cleanse your code of the 2038 BUG!!
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Chemistry | 03/25/2010 05:33PM |
| Michael Schwern | ||
* Running an open source training business
Starting a business is easy. Starting a successful business is only a little bit harder. But how do you keep an open source training business going and making money when the shine has worn off and it's now just hard work?
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Business | 03/25/2010 06:03AM |
| Jacinta Richardson | ||
* The Complex Ethics of Piracy
The Complex Ethics of Piracy
This talk aims to replace the "piracy is good" vs "piracy is theft" debate with a more nuanced understanding. It will investigate when piracy is selfish; when it is civil disobedience; whether it is ever constructive for cultural industries, or whether it is ever, as copyright holders argue, "theft".
I will conclude that each of these things is sometimes true about piracy, and that simple views are inadequate for understanding the ethical dimension of copyright infringement. Both pirates and copyright industries need to develop more subtle understandings of the morality of file sharing.
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Culture | 03/29/2010 09:24PM |
| Peter Eckersley | ||
Open Source Bridge 2009 Birds of a Feather
Favorite sessions for this user
* Code-n-Splode BOF
BOF to go with the "My Grand Experiment" Talk. http://opensourcebridge.org/sessions/115
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BoF |
| gabrielle roth | |
* PDXCritique
PDXCritique is an open forum where anyone who makes things can get constructive criticism on their work from their peers.
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BoF |
| ben hengst | |
Open Source Bridge 2009
Favorite sessions for this user
* CodeIgniter As Drinking Game
DRINK.
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Cooking |
| Jeffrey McManus | |
* Faking It Til I Make It: A Woman On The Fringe Of Open Source
As a long-time user of open source software, I've often considered myself an advocate but not necessarily a participant. Over the last year and a half, my own search for technical inspiration has led me full-circle to the realization that I'm an active member of a vibrant community of technical women.
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Culture |
| Maria Webster | |
* Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
Welcome to the unconference day.
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Culture |
| Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Chris Messina | |
* Get Off Your Asana and Move!
This is a yoga workshop for anyone who sits and works on computers a lot. You will learn breathing exercises and physical postures that can be done at anytime to help maintain a healthy body and clear mind. Suggestions will be included for how to modify stretches to protect injuries and provide gentle opening.
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Culture |
| Sherri Montgomery | |
* Making Twitter Suck Less With Perl
Spam is starting to infiltrate Twitter and other similar online communities. Learn how to use Perl to filter to garbage from the gold and search for what matters to you.
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Hacks |
| Jonathan Leto | |
* My Grand Experiment: A Portland Women-focused Tech Group.
The idea for Code-n-Splode grew out of the Women in Open Source BOF at OSCON 2007. I'll talk about my original reasons for starting a women-friendly tech group, how the group is evolving, and what I've learned.
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Culture |
| gabrielle roth | |
* Re-factor Your Brain: Meditation for Geeks
Meditation is the ultimate open source tool. You can do it anywhere and it’s free. It requires only your brain and your body. It’s positive effects are numerous, including increased productivity, better problem-solving and a reduction in overall stress. Learn about long-term effects of mediation on the brain, some meditation techniques and how mediation can help you do your job better.
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Culture |
| Christie Koehler | |
* Thursday Keynotes
Featuring Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham
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Culture |
| Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Ward Cunningham | |
* Unit Test Your Database!
Given that the database, as the canonical repository of data, is the most important part of many applications, why is it that we don't write database unit tests? This talk promotes the practice of implementing tests to directly test the schema, storage, and functionality of databases.
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Cooking |
| David Wheeler | |
* Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.
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Culture |
| Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck | |