Sponsors
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

Sponsorship Opportunities

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Audrey Eschright

Audrey Eschright
Software Developer, Elevated Code / Open Source Bridge

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Audrey is a Ruby developer, community organizer, and crafty geek based in Portland, OR. She works for Elevated Rails, a software consultancy. She is also a board member for Legion of Tech, an umbrella organization for several local technology events, and an active member of the Portland Ruby Brigade, and Dorkbot PDX.

Her other activities include knitting, photography, and geeking out on the meaning of location in a highly-networked world.

Sessions

5:20pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Tools for Local Communities
People
 Location: E146
Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Open Source Bridge), Selena Deckelmann (Prime Radiant), Michael Dexter (The BSD Fund), Sulamita Garcia (Intel)
The open source movement is global, but interesting and exciting things happen at the local scale too. In this panel, community organizers will talk about the social and technological tools they use to to gather, collaborate, and learn. Read more.
2:35pm Thursday, 07/24/2008
Art of Community Lightning Talks
Emerging Topics
 Location: Portland 252
Dawn Foster (Intel), Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative), Allison Randal (Canonical), Audrey Eschright (Elevated Code / Open Source Bridge), Sulamita Garcia (Intel), Nnenna Nwakanma (NNENNA.ORG), Stormy Peters (GNOME Foundation), Silona Bonewald (League Of Technical Voters), Erinn Clark (.), Zaheda Bhorat (Google Inc)
Given the open source movement, the popularity of social networks, and new tools for collaboration, more people are looking for ways to build community. The Art of Community came about because we wanted to write a book about community using a wiki so that a community could grow around the book. A different author leads each chapter, and you will hear from many of them during these lightning talks. Read more.
OSCON 2008