--- title: "Come to Open Source Bridge" id: "363" type: "post" slug: "come-to-open-source-bridge" published_at: "2009-03-24T12:45:40+00:00" modified_at: "2014-04-12T20:55:17+00:00" url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/come-to-open-source-bridge/" markdown_url: "https://johnpoelstra.com/come-to-open-source-bridge.md" excerpt: "If you’ve been looking for an excuse to visit Portland, Oregon, look no further! I recently volunteered to help the Open Source Bridge marketing team with project management. I’m not sure what all that will entail yet, but Rick Turoczy......" taxonomy_category: - "Software & Technology" taxonomy_post_tag: - "Linux" - "Open Source" - "osbridge" --- [Skip to the content](#site-content) [John Poelstra](https://johnpoelstra.com) ### Bringing order to chaos and clarity to confusion - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) Toggle search field - [One Conversation](https://johnpoelstra.com/) - [Podcast](https://johnpoelstra.com/category/podcast/) - [Coaching for Directors](https://johnpoelstra.com/coach/) - [About](https://johnpoelstra.com/about/) # [Come to Open Source Bridge](https://johnpoelstra.com/come-to-open-source-bridge/) If you’ve been looking for an excuse to visit Portland, Oregon, look no further! I recently volunteered to help the [Open Source Bridge](http://opensourcebridge.org/) marketing team with project management. I’m not sure what all that will entail yet, but [Rick Turoczy](http://siliconflorist.com/about/) assures me I can help so I’m sure before long I’ll have plenty to do. I’m looking forward to working with people in the local tech scene, several of which I met last week at [Lunch 2.0](http://siliconflorist.com/2009/03/12/opensourcery-lunch-20-recap/) . [Open Source Bridge](http://opensourcebridge.org/) is already listed on the [Fedora Events page](https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Events#FY10_Q2_.28June_2009_-_August_2009.29) too so maybe I’ll get the opportunity to meet some new Fedorans. It even looks like [Paul Frields](http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1530) is hoping to come. When I first read the early blog posts about creating a conference to replace [OSCON](http://en.oreilly.com/oscon2009) in Portland (it has relocated to San Jose, California) I thought it might be overly ambitious, if not impossible. I’m changing my mind. The full purpose of the conference is described at [http://opensourcebridge.org/about/](http://opensourcebridge.org/about/) [http://opensourcebridge.org/about/](http://opensourcebridge.org/about/) . First, the conference is being organized by a group of Portland all-stars that have pulled off similar feats. Second, the word is starting to get out in different places that this conference is being recognized as an [alternative to OSCON](http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/11/anAlternateOscon.html) . A call for papers is still open and lots of interesting proposals have been submitted. In an open source sort of way you can see all the [proposals that have been submitted](http://opensourcebridge.org/events/2009/proposals/) . It is RSS enabled so you can set a watch and see it continue to evolve. The only proposal currently missing is yours. Time is running out. The opportunity to submit a paper ends very soon—seven days from now on March 31, 2009. Hope to see you there. #### John Poelstra John Poelstra, CPA, coaches directors in finance and software. Certified and trained by the Co-Active Training Institute, he has coached for more than 10 years, with over 520 clients and 3,150 sessions, including people at well-known Fortune 100 companies. In over 30 years of professional experience, he spent 25 in technology and finance: software testing, project management and team leadership at Red Hat and Dell/EMC, and finance as a bank auditor at Wells Fargo and a CPA at Grant Thornton. He hosts The John Poelstra Show podcast and is based in Portland, Oregon. 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