Conferences 2012

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

May

• May 12, WebMaking Instructor Community Conference, Cambridge, MA
  • Style: Unconference?
  • Theme: Webmaking and bottom-up teaching
  • Our goal: Explain the Boston Python Workshop strategy and learn what others are up to in this space
  • Status: Wondering if we can attend

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)

• Wikimania 2012: Hackathon

• Wikimania 2012: Main conference

• 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!