Open Source Bridge

Excerpt

Description

There are myriad community-enabling tools out there. We’ll dive in and explore those that have been most effective at encouraging user group activity, and provide a few case studies.

Tags

user group, community, online, infrastructure, culture

Speaker

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  Selena Deckelmann

  Biography

  Selena Deckelmann is an enthusiastic Open Source advocate and PostgreSQL specialist. Her work ranges from the highly local–organizing the Portland PostgreSQL User Group–to planning national conferences, and international outreach to other user groups and events. She is also a founding board member of Legion of Tech, a non-profit focused on connecting Portlanders through technology. She has presented at LUG Radio Live, OSCON and the Linux Plumbers Conference on working with Drupal, running user groups and measuring filesystem performance. She will be presenting at FOSDEM, SCaLE, PgCon and OSCON in 2009.

  Sessions

  • * bzr vs git smack down
    • Title: bzr vs git smack down
    • Track: Cooking
    • Room: Hawthorne
    • Time: 5:00 – 5:45pm
    • Excerpt:

      Selena loves Git and EmmaJane loves Bazaar. And like all good nerds they’ve spent a fair amount of time talkin’ smack about the other’s version control system (VCS). Come see what the fuss is all about!

    • Speakers: EmmaJane Hogbin, Selena Deckelmann
  • * Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
    • Title: Wednesday Welcome and Keynotes
    • Track: Culture
    • Room: Fremont
    • Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
    • Excerpt:

      Featuring Amber Case, Cyborg Anthropologist, and Kurt von Finck of Monty Program AB.

    • Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Amber Case, Kurt von Finck
  • * Thursday Keynotes
    • Title: Thursday Keynotes
    • Track: Culture
    • Room: Fremont
    • Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
    • Excerpt:

      Featuring Mayor Sam Adams and Ward Cunningham

    • Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Ward Cunningham
  • * Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
    • Title: Friday Unconference Kickoff & Scheduling
    • Track: Culture
    • Room: Fremont
    • Time: 9:00 – 9:45am
    • Excerpt:

      Welcome to the unconference day.

    • Speakers: Audrey Eschright, Selena Deckelmann, Chris Messina