Conferences 2012

This page documents upcoming conferences and our goals + commitments for them.

June

 * June 26-29, Open Source Bridge, Portland, Oregon

July

 * Sun 7/8 - Sat 7/14: Debconf12, Managua, Nicaragua
 * Style: Week-long Debian fest
 * Theme: Debian
 * Our goal: Represent OpenHatch and discuss community organizing among Debian participants
 * Status: Planning (but not committed) to attend and speak (Asheesh)


 * Sat 7/14 - Sun 7/15: Community Leadership Summit, Portland, OR
 * Style: Weekend unconference
 * Theme: Community organizing, mostly in open source but also largely in commercial web forums around a brand (e.g. Zappos)
 * Goal: Represent the OpenHatch Way in FLOSS organizing and diversity outreach; and hear from other active FLOSS communities
 * Status: Interested in attending (Asheesh)


 * Mon 7/16 - Fri 7/20: OSCON, Portland, OR
 * Style: Week-long corporate megaconf
 * Theme: Open source in absolutely any fashion
 * Goal: Represent OpenHatch to, and hang out with, the wide variety of exciting speakers at OSCON (and attendees too)
 * Status: Karen and Asheesh's "Open source project growth as a user experience problem" talk accepted for Thu!