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Open Source Bridge hackathon on Sunday

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Igal just posted to the osbridge-technology list: Join us to work on one or more of these for Open Source Bridge this weekend: 1. Code: Add features and specs to the OpenConferenceWare conference app. Join in if you’ve got Ruby on Rails coding experience, such as contributing code to Calagator. 2. Text: Compose documents for [...]

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What are you waiting for? Get your PgCon talks in now!

Monday, January 5, 2009

Yes, that’s me, with Tom Lane. You, too, might be able to get your picture with Tom! Like Josh Berkus said yesterday: As of today, you have 2 weeks left to submit talk proposals to PGCon. You know you want to. PGCon is the international conference for PostgreSQL hackers, sysadmins, application developers, SQL geeks and [...]

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Open Source Bridge

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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. Let me explain with a little background: My first tech conference was LISA in San Diego in 1997. I ran into [...]

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Pluggable architecture, not just for code

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

photo from Chris Zakorchemny One OSCON session that made me think was “Does Open Source need to be organic?” The panel contained Brian Aker (MySQL), Rob Lanphier (Linden Lab), Stephen O’Grady (Redmonk), Theodore Ts’o (Linux Foundation). The session was less about business vs. community, and more about how to increase community involvement in your projects. [...]

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WordPress vs. Drupal: Not that it’s about winning

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

Here’s the talk Andy and I presented at the fantastic LUG Radio Live conference, April 12, 2008. Some people even asked for the movie, so here it is in Flash:

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