Open Source Bridge
Kevin McFadden
Here's an email I received recently about about a conference in
Portland, June 1-4.
They are looking for speakers, but they are also giving us a free pass
to raffle off, which we'll probably do at the next hack night (as soon
as I can find time in my schedule!)
What do you guys think?
Kev
Hi Kevin,
I'm one of the organizers of Open Source Bridge, the conference
for open source citizens. We're hosting it for the second time
on June 1–4, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. We’re aiming to connect
people across projects, languages and experience and would love
to have members of the Colorado Springs Ruby community involved
as speakers and participants. Details about the conference are
included below.
Bridge isn’t a typical conference. It’s entirely volunteer-run,
by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology
agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and
focused on similarities between projects, not differences.
Plus, we’ll be running a 24-hour hacker lounge on site for code
sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects and
generally socializing around code.
We’d be delighted if you could mention Open Source Bridge at
your user group meetings, post this email to your mailing list,
and get us in touch with other groups in your community
interested in participating.
Our call for proposals runs through March 25th, which is fast
approaching, so please pass this information on as soon as
possible.
We don’t expect something for nothing, so we’re giving all of
your user group members a discounted registration rate of $200.
That’s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular
registration. User groups are very important to us and our
organizers are heavily involved in the local tech community.
We’re also offering a free conference pass for you to give away
to a member of your group. If you’re interested in more ways to
promote the conference, let us know!
Thank You!
Reid Beels
Open Source Bridge
http://opensourcebridge.org/
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CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION
You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of
your group!
We’ve found that these raffles work best when you:
1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates,
and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/
2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle.
3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting.
When you have selected a winner, email
userg...@opensourcebridge.org, CC the winner, and we’ll
register them for you.
DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERS
Open Source Bridge
http://opensourcebridge.org
Open Source Bridge is a conference for developers working with
open source technologies. It will take place June 1–4, 2010, in
Portland, Oregon, with five tracks connecting people across
projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our
work and why we participate in open source. The conference
structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity
to learn from people they might not connect with at other
events. Attendees will learn and interact at three days of
traditional conference presentations, a day of free-form
unconference sessions, and our 24-hour Hacker Lounge.
This year we are thrilled to have an excellent downtown
location at the Portland Art Museum ( http://pam.org/ ), an
extra day packed full of open source goodness, and an on-site
24-hour Hacker Lounge! As a user group member, you can use the
coupon code "osbugluv" to register for only $200 when you
select either an Early Bird Registration (through April 1st),
or a Regular Registration (after April 1st). Learn more and
register today at http://opensourcebridge.org/attend/
The conference is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the
need for an open source event that focuses on the culture of
being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack
you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration
and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference.
Our event shares in-depth knowledge about using, creating and
contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community.
You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for
the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create
hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology.
We're still seeking proposals — and we've just extended the
deadline through March 25th — so submit yours before time runs
out at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/
The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a
thriving technical community, a love of all things open source
and offers many attractions for visiting geeks, including
Powell’s technical books, dozens of local brewpubs, and large
greenspaces like Forest Park—all accessible by mass transit.
Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the
conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend.
Thanks!