I am forwarding this information to the entire group. This is a conference we want to support as much as possible.
(1) It is sort of a replacement for OSCON in Portland (2) It is definitely a community sponsored conference and that is really COOL. David Mandel ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Selena Deckelmann <selenama...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:07 PM Subject: Open Source Bridge To: David Mandel <dman...@davidmandel.com> Hi David, I'm attaching our standard form letter for the conference :) The main take-aways are that we have a user group discount, call for proposals ends March 31, we'd love some more proposals, and could you pass this on to the user group related lists you're on! Thanks!! -selena I'm co-chair of Open Source Bridge, a new open source developers’ conference being held June 17–19, 2009 in Portland, Oregon. We’re aiming to connect people across projects, languages and experience and would love to have members of PLUG involved as speakers and participants. More details about the conference are included below. We’d be delighted it if you could mention Open Source Bridge at the next PLUG meeting, post this email to your mailing list, and get us in touch with others in your community interested in participating. Our call for proposals is closing on March 31st, so please pass this information on as soon as possible. We don’t expect something for nothing, so we’re giving all of your user group members a discounted registration rate of $150. That’s $25 off the Early Bird rate, and $100 off our regular registration. User groups are very important to Audrey and I — that’s how we both got started in the open source community. We’re also offering a free conference pass to give away to a member of your group. If you’re interested in more ways to promote the conference, let us know! Thank You! Selena Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org/ CONFERENCE PASS RAFFLE INFORMATION: You get one free conference pass to raffle off to a member of your group! We’ve found the most successful raffles tend to follow these conditions: 1) Let all of your members know about the conference, dates, and URL: http://opensourcebridge.org/ 2) Allow anyone in the group to sign up for the raffle. 3) Draw the winner at random, preferably at a public meeting. When you have selected a winner, email usergro...@opensourcebridge.org, CC the winner, and we’ll register them for you. DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERS: Open Source Bridge http://opensourcebridge.org Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events. Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference. Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology. We’re still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of March 31st. Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed “for the cloud”; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what’s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/) In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated “hacker lounge” at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night. The city of Portland is a great place to visit. It has a thriving technical community, a love of all things open source and offers many attractions for visiting geeks, including Powell’s technical books, dozens of local brewpubs, and large greenspaces like Forest Park—all accessible by mass transit. Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend. Thanks! PS: Interested in taking advantage of the user group discount code that will allow user group members to register for $150? Enter “osb4228” when you register to receive the discount. -- Selena Deckelmann Open Source Bridge - http://www.opensourcebridge.org PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx Me - http://www.chesnok.com/daily _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
