Let's talk about Open Source Bridge!

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Topic: Addie (@demew) will present on how software teams can utilize Gerrit for code reviews.

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Topic: Conference Proposal Sprint.

Thinking of submitting a talk idea to a technical conference? Bring your ideas and drafts to this evening's Code 'n' Splode for feedback and advice. We'll follow a casual workshop format.

This sprint is geared towards Open Source Bridge, whose proposal deadline is this Friday, but you can work on and get feedback on proposals for any conference.

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Amye Scavarda (@msamye) and Leslie Hawthorn (@lhawthorn) will present The Smart Woman's Guide to Getting Things Done: 7 Essential Skills to Cultivate for Career Happiness

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Crystal Beasley (@skinny) will present "15 Signs Your UX is Busted"

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This month we're reviewing face-melting file formats!

Bring your most hideous, complicated, verbose, yak-ridden file formats for a lightening talk style show and tell.

Please sign-up here if you plan to present: http://etherpad.opensourcebridge.org/cns-10-25-2011

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Topic TBD

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In this episode of Code N Splode, Sarah Sharp will lead an exploration of an Android App called Garden Weather Alert. We'll cover some of the basics of Android App structure: intents, activities, and services. Sarah will also show the app development workflow in the Eclipse Android SDK, and how to debug apps. If time permits, we'll talk about storage and background services.

The git repo for the app is here:

https://github.com/sarahsharp/gardengeek

The android app source code is under the src/android-get-temp/ directory. Feel free to browse the source code history to see how Sarah has added functionality over time.

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Event Contact:

For more information, please visit pdx.codensplode.org.

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/416809/ ] Code 'n' Splode is a group of geeky people who get together on a monthly basis to talk about geeky things. We are an open, relaxed, comfortable place to come and talk about programming. The group is primarily female and generally open by invitation only.

[Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/416807/ ] Code 'n' Splode is a group of geeky people who get together on a monthly basis to talk about geeky things. We are an open, relaxed, comfortable place to come and talk about programming. The group is primarily female and generally open by invitation only.

All 'Splode meeting this month. Meet at the Dechutes Brewrey.

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Topic: Refactoring Legacy Codebases

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Topic: Tools and Tips Roundtable

Bring an example of something - a technique or tool - that helps you get things done!

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(June's meeting will most likely be a Birds of a Feather session at the Open Source Bridge conference. Stay tuned for details.)

Topic TBD.

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Topic: TBD Speaker: All?

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Topic: FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW) Speaker: Sarah Sharp

For the last three years, the GNOME Foundation has worked to improve the number of women involved in open source, by offering internships through the FOSS Outreach Program for Women (OPW). Women and genderqueer or genderfluid interns receive $5,000 for working for three months on one of 16 different open source projects.

The Linux kernel (a notoriously unfriendly project) joined OPW for the first time this year, and the response was really amazing:

41 women applied for 6 Linux kernel internships. 18 of those women submitted at least one kernel patch.

In 13 days, 374 patches were submitted, and 137 patches were accepted.

Diff stat for accepted patches: 105 files changed, 3889 insertions(+), 4872 deletions(-)

Sarah Sharp will talk about OPW, in order to encourage women to apply for the next round of OPW, and explain how more experienced women can become OPW mentors.

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Topic: Audrey will lead a group discussion on topics related to activism and organizing.

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Topic: TBD

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Topic: Amy Farrell (@akfarrell) will share her tech Origin Story.

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This month's meeting is cancelled due to an outbreak of stomach flu at the organizer's house.

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Topic: Techy Sexagenarians; Speaker: Jen Davidson

What are you going to do when you retire? Contribute to open source software, right? Do all those side-projects you never get around to doing while working? The first generation of programmers are retiring right now, and I plan to examine their experience contributing to open source software. Most open source communities are notoriously homogeneous, dominated by 20-30something white males. Through my research, I hope to provide open source communities with a proposal for involving older adults. During the talk, I'll go over my research goals, how I plan meet those goals, and discuss some of the human-computer interaction research methods that I'm using. If you want to know more about life as a computer science/human-computer interaction PhD student, we can talk about that too.

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Topic: Internet Relay Chat (IRC) How To

Lots of open source projects and companies rely on IRC for internal communication, but many people don't feel comfortable using it. Christie Koehler will present a hands-on guide for getting up and running with IRC.

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Topic TBD.

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Topic Show 'n' Tell. Come and show the group cool things that you've been working on lately.

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Topic: TBD Speaker: All?

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It's conference proposal season! Let's get together and share our talk proposal ideas, drafts and feedback.

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Topic: TBD Speaker: All?

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Topic: TBD Speaker: Christie Koehler

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Topic: TBD Speaker: Christie Koehler

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