In case anyone is interested, this just landed in my inbox. (It's in Portland.)
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Reid <[address removed]>
Date: Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:22 PM
Subject: Open Source Bridge + Vancouver Rubists
To: [address removed]
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Hi Peter,
I'm a ruby developer and one of the organizers of Open Source
Bridge, a new open source developers’ conference being held
June 17–19, 2009 in Portland. We’re aiming to connect people
across projects, languages and experience and would love to
have members of the Vancouver Ruby community involved as
speakers and participants. Details about the conference are
included below.
Bridge isn’t a typical conference. It’s entirely volunteer-run,
by developers, for developers. Session tracks are technology
agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and
focused on similarities between projects, not differences.
Plus, we’ll be running a 24-hour hacker lounge for code
sprints, bug bashes, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or
just mingling.
We’d be delighted it if you could mention Open Source Bridge at
your user group meetings, 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 the chairs of
our conference — that’s how they 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!
Reid Beels
Open Source Bridge
[address removed]
http://opensource...
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://opensource...
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
[address removed], CC the winner, and we’ll
register them for you.
DETAILS TO SHARE WITH YOUR GROUP’S MEMBERS:
Open Source Bridge
http://opensource...
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://opensource...)
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.
Visit http://opensource... 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.
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