Open Source Bridge 2011
2011-06-21..2011-06-24
Portland, United States
[Open Source Bridge 2011, Open Source Bridge 2013, Open Source Bridge 2014, Open Source Bridge 2015]
who it's for
community managers, open source contributors, civic technologists, volunteer coordinators, developer educators, software engineers, system administrators, media producers
topics
IRC protocol, clients and bouncers; Tor and VPN censorship circumvention; CitySync civic data integration; newcomer onboarding and mentoring workflows; Java type system experiments; Arduino to ARM embedded toolchains; DSLR ProRes to WebM/MP4 video workflows; LiveCDs, dial-up and ham radio offline networking; batch PCB panelization and localized fabrication; open hardware education projects (low cost rockets)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Keynote – Peter Fein | Peter Fein | 38m |
Describes concrete hacktivist actions: organizing protests for WikiLeaks in over one hundred cities in two weeks, running encryption support (Tor, VPNs) and… | ||
| Keynote – Sam Adams | Sam Adams | 20m |
Portland frames concrete actions: the city legally equals open source and open data with commercial software, runs a regional app contest Civic Apps that wins… | ||
| A Guided Tour of IRC | Peter Fein | 01h 00m |
A precise walk through IRC shows an actual line‑oriented protocol and the ecosystem that sits on it: irssi and mibbit web client for access, ChanServ and RC… | ||
| Interview | Bart Massey | 10m |
Details list concrete contributions and outcomes: work on X Window System and contributions around GCC and GDB, running an open source course with 40 students… | ||
| Interview | Asheesh Laroia | 09m |
Open Hatch runs a website and Outreach events that actually pair newcomers with concrete starter tasks, and the claim is that clarity plus training grows… | ||
| Interview | Melissa Hollingworth | 06m |
Claim: how normalization and denormalization trade storage and query cost and when to pick each, demonstrated with a live puppet show and machinima that… | ||
| Interview | Peter Fein | 05m |
An activist group named telec ICS recounts work to keep Egypt online using Twitter, wikis, Wikipedia and WordPress for outreach and IRC for internal… | ||
| Interview | Michael Ernst | 08m |
Two concrete proposals: strengthening and weakening Java's type system with actual tools, proofs and implementations rather than vague examples. One project is… | ||
| Interview | Ward Cunningham, Don Davis | 18m |
A clear checklist of what happened and what worked: a recurring community runs group orders cut parts from $5 to $3 when buying 25, teaches physical computing… | ||
| Interview | Rainer Cvillink | 16m |
Video work moves from webcams and prosumer Panasonics to a DSLR workflow that changes production overnight, with raw ProRes editing and repeat transcodes for… | ||
| Interview | Sam Adams | 12m |
Unveiled citysync.com beta that combines public and private datasets and surfaces hyperlocal media via Nozzle; claim backed by an empirical claim that… | ||
| Interview | Sumana Harihareswara | 09m |
Volunteer development coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation summarizes a quick MS-based framework called learn tech management in 45 minutes and explains… | ||
| Interview | Christopher Strahl | 05m |
Work describes concrete community work: a government contract with a division of the Department of Defense for building social networks for Security… | ||
| Interview | Noirin Plunkett | 04m |
Begins with a botched attempt to install Linux and quickly moves into concrete contributions: translations into Irish and documentation for the Apache web… | ||
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