Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder

19 Jun 2012, 6:17 a.m.

Conference Seasoning

Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2012 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.

I'm speaking at Open Source Bridge - June 26–29, 2012 - Portland, OR You know you're traveling too much when you completely stop updating the "where I'm going to be" feeds (example).

Regardless: I'll be in San Francisco starting late today, and then in Portland on Monday the 25th, the day before I give the opening keynote address at Open Source Bridge. My tentative title: "Be Bold."

Wikimedians are giving several other talks during the conference:

The Wikimedia Foundation is also sponsoring the Friday unconference day, and will host a hacking table that day as well as (I hope) the Tuesday "Hacker Lounge Project/Community Night."

Wikimania 2012 logo Then, I'll be in Washington, DC, July 10th-15th for Wikimania, especially the pre-conference Hackathon. I'm happy to announce that WMF is partnering with OpenHatch to make the pre-Wikimania hackathon even more useful. OpenHatch is planning and running the novice-focused half of the event, with trainings and projects to help people learn how to hack Wikimedia technology.

I'm leading at least two talks at Wikimania:

I say "at least two" because who knows whether folks will rope me into moderating a panel, or doing some stand-up comedy.