Entries tagged as ‘conference’
Tomorrow morning I’ll be getting up stupidly early to catch a flight to Austin for SXSW Interactive. This is my second year attending. I have a few things bookmarked to attend, but as danah boyd commented, the best plan for an event like this is no plan. Show up and see what happens.
Because I like to Be Prepared, I will be showing up with two Polaroid cameras, chic sunglasses, and the all-essential pocket computer iPhone loaded with both Foursquare and Gowalla (to stalk my friends as efficiently as possible).
I hope I have enough film.
Categories: travel
Tagged: conference, sxsw, sxswi
February 1, 2010 · Comments Off
Categories: events · portland · technology
Tagged: conference, open source, osbridge
May 16, 2009 · Comments Off
Yesterday we published the Open Source Bridge schedule. There’s two days of talks and a third day of unconference goodness to check out. Now you have no excuse to not go ahead and make your plan to attend. Do you really want to miss this lineup?
Categories: events · technology
Tagged: conference, osbridge
April 23, 2009 · Comments Off
Categories: events · portland · technology
Tagged: conference, open source, osbridge
February 26, 2009 · Comments Off
Last night, Reid launched an update of the Open Source Bridge site, now with links to attendee information like registration and booking a hotel room in our block. Conference passes are $175 if you register now, and $250 after March 31.
We’re also still accepting proposals. Current submissions include putting the cloud in the clouds, how and when to fork a project to do your own thing, and RubySpec (filed under hacks!). We’re interested in a wide range of topics, including advanced material, as long as it’s open source.
Categories: events · portland · technology
Tagged: conference, open source, osbridge, portland
As Selena announced on her blog:
There’s going to be a new conference in Portland next July.
We’re calling it Open Source Bridge.
Our goal is this:
Create a completely volunteer-run, community conference to connect developers working with open source.
I am excited to be co-chairing this event. Portland is a fabulous place to be working on open source projects, and we’re the ideal community to build an inclusive, diverse conference that focuses on developers’ interests and needs.
Tomorrow night (10/30) we’re having a town hall meeting to talk about our plans for the conference, and what you can do to help. We’ll be meeting at 7:30 PM at Cubespace. Please RSVP if you’ll be there. If you can’t attend but want to get involved, let Selena or myself know, and we’ll get in touch with you. We’re also planning a second daytime meeting for west-siders next week.
Categories: events · portland · technology
Tagged: conference, open source, planning
September 4, 2008 · Comments Off
Remember all that talk about side projects last spring (and all summer, and also right now)? CubeSpace and Legion of Tech are putting on From Side Project to Startup, a free event for people who want to turn their other thing into the main gig. It’s going to have a mixture of unconference sessions and scheduled presentations, and runs Sept. 12-13. You can RSVP now on Upcoming.
P.S.: The event still needs sponsors. Sponsors help us keep these events free to the public so everyone can participate and learn.
Categories: events · portland · technology
Tagged: conference, my other thing, portland, side project, startup, technology, unconference
I survived. I am mostly caught up on sleep. I have a whole Sunday left to lounge around playing Mario Kart and eating pancakes!
So here’s some of the fun from the week.
Schwern’s People for Geeks tutorial had everything from introductory etiquette to manager-speak to running a user group. I think I’ll be using the concept of tact filters frequently, to explain where geek / everyone else communications go wrong.
One of the presenters, Kirrily Roberts of the Geek Etiquette blog, has also just started a Geek Feminism wiki to track information related to women in technology/gaming/sf. This, combined with Geek Speakr make great starting points for anyone wondering how to get more women involved with their conference or tech events.
Ben Bleything’s Ruby and electronics projects always make me wonder why I still don’t have an Arduino. There’s links to most of what he talked about on his blog.
Selena and Gabrielle gave an intro to running a user group, complete with a short illustrated handbook for attendees (you can download it at the link above). I liked that they had us model some of the techniques discussed as we went.
I really enjoyed leading the panel on Tools for Local Communities. Thanks to Selena Deckelmann, Sulamita Garcia, and Michael Dexter for participating. If you missed it, you can download an audio recording.
This year’s FOSCON, Cooking with Ruby, was entertaining as always. Reid, Igal, and I gave a lightning talk on the Calagator development process. Notes here. The Rails team won the coding competition, with PHP/Symphony coming in second.
I gave a lightning talk on anarchy during the Art of Community session on Thursday.
Emma Jane Hogbin‘s “Form an orderly queue, ladies” blew me away. There were so many things in there that I’ve been trying to formulate into coherent thoughts—now I can just tell you to check out her talk and join in the quest for open source world domination. Slides here and video from the version she did at LUGRadio Live.
Finally, on Friday morning I spoke on OPB Radio’s Think Out Loud, as part of an entire hour on open source. You can download the podcast if you’d like to listen. I’m on about 40 minutes in, but Raven Zachary and Rick Turoczy participated throughout the hour. Reading the comments on Twitter afterward was pretty entertaining.
Categories: events · portland · technology
Tagged: conference, event, foscon, open source, oscon, oscon08, technology
