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Open Source Bridge: Thank you all

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Open Source Bridge ended yesterday at midnight. We wrapped things up at the Hacker Lounge, with interviews courtesy of Strange Love Live, and tons of hackers still coding through the evening. My head was just buzzing from all of the great conversations I’ve had over the last three days.

Thank you to all of the speakers, volunteers and my fellow board members, Audrey Eschright and Jake Kuramoto. Thank you to the core organizing committee, designers and hackers – Reid, Igal, Rick, Adam, Bram and osbridgebot. Thank you to Christie Koehler who did an amazing job with managing volunteers these last three days.

Thank you especially to Peter Eschright, who swooped in and made sure that all of our Logistical issues were solved. Thank you Cami and Dr. Normal from Strange Love Live, and Kelly for all your advocacy work on behalf of the conference. Thank you Steph for your last minute awesome work on the speaker party. Thank you to Beer and Blog and WebTrends for hosting our evening party on Friday *and* our speaker party.

Thank you Amber Case, Kurt von Finck, Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham for giving entertaining and inspiring keynotes each day. Thanks to Chris Messina for helping kick off our unconference on Friday.

Thank you everyone who came and participated in the conference. Your enthusiasm and passion was inspiring. I appreciated all of the encouragement you gave me and all the other volunteers throughout the time we were there together. All those kind words add up, and so many people were just glowing from the praise.

If you attended the conference, respond to our survey! Also, comments are open on sessions, so please leave comments about the specific sessions you attended. We’ll forward the feedback to the speakers.

I’m still smiling, and soaking it all in. But we’re definitely doing this again next year. :)

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  4. Kicking off Open Source Bridge planning
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This was written by selena. Posted on Saturday, June 20, 2009, at 1:32 pm. Filed under conference, open source bridge. Tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Eric Day wrote:

    A big thanks to you too, Selena! This was an awesome conference you all put together.

    Saturday, June 20, 2009 at 10:31 pm | Permalink
  2. Bram Pitoyo wrote:

    I love how @osbridgebot is considered a “core planner” (because he/she/it is!)

    Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 11:58 am | Permalink
  3. John DeRosa wrote:

    Selena, thank *you* for all the hard work you put into this! It was a fantastic event, and I’m looking forward to doing it again next year.

    Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 12:16 pm | Permalink
  4. Kurt von Finck wrote:

    Thanks for having me! It was great fun with great friends, in the best PDX tradition.

    I’m really looking forward to next year.

    Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 8:13 pm | Permalink
  5. Rick Turoczy wrote:

    Thank YOU for having the courage to pursue this idea. And an extra special thanks for letting me take part in the fun. ;)

    Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 8:46 pm | Permalink
  6. Michael Schurter wrote:

    Thanks for all of your hard work Selena! Had a great time. Hope I can be more involved next year!

    Monday, June 22, 2009 at 12:56 pm | Permalink
  7. Webb S. wrote:

    Selana — you and the gang rock!

    Monday, June 22, 2009 at 1:47 pm | Permalink
  8. Lucas wrote:

    Thanks for the Bacon Vodka!

    Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at 11:30 am | Permalink
  9. Rick Turoczy wrote:

    Sorry I couldn’t stay for the whole show, but I’m looking forward to listening to the podcast.

    This comment was originally posted on http://ourpdx.net/)“>Our PDX Network

    Sunday, June 21, 2009 at 8:52 pm | Permalink

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