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Kicking off Open Source Bridge planning

We’re kicking off the planning for Open Source Bridge 2010, old school. We’ve got a mailing list that you should subscribe to:
http://groups.google.com/group/osbridge

Last year’s organizing team was very structured. I like to think that we managed things well, and our attendees were pleased with the results.
But, this time – we’re changing how we manage [...]

Open Source Bridge: Thank you all

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, [...]

Open Source Bridge hackathon on Sunday

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 outreach to user groups, [...]

Gratitude, freedom and open source

Audrey just wrote a fantastic blog entry about Open Source Bridge, her thoughts about citizenship, and what it means to be a responsible open source citizen.
Yesterday, Forbes published a piece talking about the “open source collaboration gap” and waxed poetic about why it is that corporate IT doesn’t contribute back to open source projects the [...]

Waffle-induced development

My waffles will probably not look as good as this.
People often ask me for advice on how to motivate and get people excited about coming to meetings, participating in user groups and contributing to projects. I’m going to try to blog more about the things I do that work.
Friends in Portland know that I often [...]