Wacky, all volunteer Open Source Bridge conference previews speakers and topics

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21 points·thesethings··4 comments

(Disclaimer: I'm doing light-volunteer work for them, but am in no way a primary organizer.)

I am really looking forward to this event. It's got the spirit of a BarCamp (and one free-for-all unconference day), but the "curation" of OSCON or a more traditional event.

It's a really good mix of some big name speakers like Rasmus and Chris Messina, and not-so-big-names, giving fresh topics a second look.

What makes this event "wacky"?

They have a 24 hour hacker lounge for code sprints + scheming and socializing (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=532314), a rude robot on Twitter ordering people to submit proposals/ attend (http://twitter.com/osbridgebot/status/1536795780), all proposals were automatically updated to a public page + feed, even before accepted, anybody could send (private) comments to committee on what they thought should be/not accepted, the rude robot submitted a (rejected) talk, i've seen various organizers appear on a public-access like show drinking tiki drinks, promoting it.

It's all volunteer run, so it seems to have the spirit of BarCamp, but its scale and logistics is a bit more OSCON-like, held at same convention center where OSCON was last year.

Pricing makes me think of YAPC. I went to one of those; it was a great time. Lots of talent, both local and big name. Larry Wall ended up being sick (IIRC), but Damian Conway gave a great introduction to programming in Klingon (with working prototype).

http://www.archlug.org/kwiki/KlingonPerlProgramming

http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/560

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