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 Linus [...]
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.
Brian [...]
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:
Selena Deckelmann is a Postgres consultant living in Portland, OR. She writes about Postgres, community and open source.
You can get in touch with her at selenamarie *at* gmail.com.
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