We have everything in Portland. We have Linus, we have biking, we have Open Source, and we have an amazing Portland Tech community. Up until recently, we also had O’Reilly’s OSCON.

Now that OSCON has moved away, the Portland community has taken the baton and is going to launch a new conference to replace the old one. The first meeting of Open Source Bridge was tonight at CubeSpace, and it was attended by around 70 people. Selena Deckelman and Audrey Eschright started the meeting off with a Powerpoint of all of the great things Portland has to offer. Her and Audrey introduced the Bridge team, which is as follows:

Marketing

Rick Turoczy

Finance

Jake Kuramoto

IT

Adam DuVander (which he is going to be calling ‘Technology Experience’). A Technology Experience happens before, during, and after the event.

Logistics (food

Kelly Guimot

Content

Selena Deckelman and Audrey Eschright

How will we get it done?

Well, as Selena Deckelman pointed out, “Portland is known for its DIY spirit — so we’ll get something done”.

Who we want involved:

All of you.
Your friends.
Your Mom.

“The real challenge,” explained Rick Turoczy, “is creating something that attracts not only the speakers around here that are well known, but speakers from outside of Portland as well”.

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Getting Involved

Please send me any resources you have and I’ll begin to gather and repost them here, as well as expand the post to include any other resources I find relating to Open Source Bridge. Tonight was a good start.

Also, check out the Open Source Bridge website for details as they happen.