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Wednesday 17th June 2009
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My Grand Experiment: A Portland Women-focused Tech Group.
The idea for Code-n-Splode grew out of the Women in Open Source BOF at OSCON 2007. Leading a women-friendly tech group continues to be an exciting ride, and I'm going to share it with you! The talk will be a "case study"-type format, featuring the following:
- why I felt a woman-focused group was necessary
- how the name came about, if it's not completely obvious
- what belonging to the group has done (or in some cases, not done) for its members
- touchy subjects, such as issues we encountered with having men in the group
- how my reasons for continuing the group have changed over timeThere will be a BOF-type get-together to go with this talk for an even less-formal discussion period/recruiting session. (Free toaster!*)
*joke
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Open Source Press Relations
by fuzzychef
You have a really cool open source project and everyone should see it, try it, and use it. But ... they don't seem to know about it. How can you make sure your project gets the press coverage it deserves? More importantly, how can you do it without compromising your open source community relationships and principles?
Josh Berkus will go over the methods he's used for the last 7 years to publicize both the OpenOffice.org and the PostgreSQL projects. He'll also show you how you can use OSS methods and tools not just to get PR done, but to get it done *better* than proprietary methods.
Slides will be up at http://www.pgexperts.com/present... by the end of the conference.
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Assholes are killing your project
The strength of your community is the best predictor of your project's long-term viability. What happens when your community is gradually infiltrated by assholes, who infect everyone else with their constant negativity and personal attacks? Although one person may be a valuable technical contributor, that one person will never contribute as much to the project as the many people who are scared away and demotivated.
How can you defuse these time bombs and prevent your project's destruction? The level of closeness of personal connections between members of your community has a huge impact on the likelihood a conversation will descend into the kinds of personal attacks that send people running from your project. Another key realization is that technical ability and social ability are orthogonal concepts, and both are a requirement for a competent contributor. You can't just have one or the other, and more of one never balances out less of the other.
This talk will teach you about the dramatic impact assholes are having on your organization today and will show you how you can begin to repair it.
Thursday 18th June 2009
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How Idealist.org uses technology to change the world
by Michel Pelletier
Idealist.org was started in 1995 by Ami Dar as a simple one-page website that cataloged links to other non-profits. In the last 14 years, the site has gone from that simple list of links to a highly scalable dynamic website with over a million users, providing them and their communities with a forum to connect and communicate. Many thousands of people over the years have gotten their jobs or volunteer opportunities through Idealist, and soon we will be rolling out the third generation of our site to provide even more power to people interested in changing the world into a better place. Our talk will present a short history of the open source technology that drives our site, what our future plans are, and how we are releasing several of our Python web technologies as open source products for other members of our community to use and share.
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Faking It Til I Make It: A Woman On The Fringe Of Open Source
This is a three-part presentation, beginning with an introduction of my personal experiences with open source:
- early exploration of open source software
- technical journey, from sales to support, administration and finally, engineering
- the danger of "laying low"
- challenges and successes
- how failure led to the need for inspiration
- how inspiration led to community
The second section will explore the community I've discovered:
- local groups for women in tech
- vast resources on the web
- support and recognition within the sub-community of women in tech
- what's next?
The last section invites the attendees to participate:
- Q & A
- Invitation to share women-in-tech events
- Invitation to share additional experiences
- Comments and suggestions
The entire presentation gives voice to my own experience but more precisely how I believe it parallels that of many women in technology: we think ourselves on the fringe, but in fact, we are active participants in an ever-growing community.
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Open Source on the Farm
by David Mandel
There are Open Source projects to develop software for all sorts of specialized uses. Indeed, there are complete Linux distributions for K-12 schools, for libraries, for geographers, for musicians, and so on. But, there is very little available specifically for small farmers in the Open Source world.
In this talk, we will discuss the reasons for this and ways of changing the situation.
In particular, we will discuss:
* The differing needs of different types of farms
* Similarities between farm culture and Open Source culture
* Software requirements: What applications do farmers need?
* What applications already exist?
* What applications need to be created?
* How should software by packaged for farmers?The author will discuss these and other issues from the point of view of someone who grew up on a small traditional farm, and spent his career in Open Source Software, and is now farming again.
Open Source Bridge 2009
United States United States, Portland
17th–19th June 2009
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