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      Announcing the 2012 Call for Proposals - January 27, 2012 by Card Players Spana

      Our call for presentation proposals is now open and we will be accepting proposals through March 16, 2012. Speaking at Open Source Bridge is a great opportunity to share your knowledge and enthusiasm. Now is the time to submit a proposal to speak at the conference!

      What kind of proposals, you ask? Open Source Bridge strives to be a different kind of open source conference: one that welcomes all open source languages, platforms, and pursuits while embracing responsible and engaged open source citizenship.

      The conference’s tracks are:
      Business: How do you build a successful open source business?
      Chemistry: What makes this work? Take the technology apart and teach us about its components.
      Cooking: How do you write the script, configure the utility, debug the code, make it work? What are your best recipes?
      Culture: What makes open source work? What else does the open source ethic lead us to do?
      Hacks: How did you pull that off?

      For a little additional inspiration, we encourage you to look through previous years’ archives of sessions presented at Open Source Bridge, but don’t let that limit you, either! We know that certain topic areas have been underrepresented in previous years, and we would very much love a diverse and broad set of proposals for this year’s bridge. We would very much love to see more talks about hardware, security, user experience design and just about everything else related to open source. No idea is too out there. We’d love to see it all.

      If you speak at Open Source Bridge, we’ll happily waive the fee for your attendance. Not sure if you should register now, or hold off to see if your talk is accepted? If you wait and your talk is not accepted, we’ll give you a special discount code that will get you a ticket at 0 (that’s off the early-bird rate).

      So what are you waiting for? We’d love to hear what you have to say. Begin creating your proposal today.

      Attend the conference

      Register to attend Open Source Bridge 2012. We offer the following kinds of tickets:
      Early bird tickets at 5 until April 30th.
      Full price tickets at 0, great for corporate attendees.
      As always, we offer a student rate of , available anytime.

      Please register soon so you can help give the event some early support.

      Interested in volunteering?

      We encourage those of you interested in being more involved with Open Source Bridge to sign up for our volunteer list.

      Interested in sponsoring?

      Let us know by contacting sponsorship@opensourcebridge.org and we’ll send you a prospectus.

      We hope that you are as excited as we are about Open Source Bridge 2012. Don’t hesitate to contact us at info@opensourcebridge.org if you have any questions. We thank you very much for your support and hope to see you in Portland in June!

      –The Open Source Bridge Team


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      Announcing the Open Source Bridge 2011 talks! - June 2, 2011 by Card Players Spana

      We are very pleased to announce this year’s Open Source Bridge conference sessions as part of our 4-day event June 21st through the 24th in Portland, Oregon. We received hundreds of excellent presentation proposals, community comments, and other feedback, and our diverse selection committee was very busy carefully reviewing and choosing talks.

      This year’s lineup features knowledgeable speakers covering a broad range of open source topics. So, if you’ve been holding off on registering, now is a great time to do so!

      We’re still waiting to hear back from a few speakers, so stay tuned in the next few days as we fill in a few gaps – but the bulk of our speakers have responded to acceptances, and we’re happy to share what we have with you today!

      We’re still finalizing the session schedule for Open Source Bridge, and plan to announce that in the very near future as well.

      Without further ado:

      Business

      Chemistry

      Cooking

      Culture

      Hacks


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      Announcing the 2011 Schedule! - May 25, 2011 by Card Players Spana

      We know you’ve all been waiting for this news, so we wanted to let you know that the Open Source Bridge 2011 schedule is now online at http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2011/schedule

      Thank you all for your patience as we worked to come up with a schedule that will hopefully suit everybody. We’re still sorting out a few remaining details and expecting some additions to the schedule over the next few days, but as the bulk of the schedule is in place, we wanted to let you all know when each session will be so that you can start to plan your time at Open Source Bridge.

      It’s only four short weeks until Open Source Bridge is here, and we hope you’re as excited as we are. We look forward to seeing all of you in June!


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      Announcing Keynotes (and last day for Early Bird Registration) - April 20, 2011 by Card Players Spana

      The Open Source Bridge planning committee is pleased to announce two of our three planned keynote speakers for June’s conference:

      For the third year, we welcome back Portland’s own Mayor Sam Adams. This year Mayor Adams will speak about the City’s involvement with opening governmental data, what CivicApps projects have resulted from this, and what open source technologies the city is utilizing. In conjunction with the Mayor’s keynote, we’re also working with the City to reprise last year’s hugely popular CivicApps hack day.

      Our second keynote will be Python expert Pete Fein, who will talk about “Hacking for Freedom.” Fein, the former CTO of Juju.com, will discuss the politics, technology and ethics of hacktivism. Working with Anonymous and Telecomix, Fein has helped organize protests in support of WikiLeaks, provided communications support to pro-democracy activists in Egypt and the Middle East, and generally continues to fight the good fight.

      We’re waiting to confirm one last keynote speaker, so stay tuned for more announcements soon.

      Last Day for Early Bird Registration

      We’ve extended 5 Early Bird registration through the end of today. Register now to save on regular price admission (at midnight prices increase to 0).


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