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From: Reid Beels <reid@...>
To: svjug-admin@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 1, 2009 11:17:25 PM
Subject: [svjug-admin] SVJUG + Open Source Bridge

Hello!

I'm one of the organizers 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 SVJUG 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.

We just extended our call for proposals through April 10th, which is 
fast approaching, 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

reid@...
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 
usergroups@..., 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 proposals — and just extended the deadline to 
April 10th — so submit yours before time runs out.

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.

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