Sarah Sharp

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First Timer’s Guide to FOSS Conferences

I’ve been going to FOSS (free and open source) conferences since 2006. My first open source conference was FreedomHEC in Seattle, a little 30-person conference for Linux users to protest Microsoft’s WinHEC. My next open source conference was OSCON, which had over a thousand attendees. They were both very different conferences, and as a college student, I really didn’t know what to expect. Going to your first open source conference can be intimidating, so I’ve complied ten tips for people who are new to the conference circuit...

Jono Bacon Interview-From Open Source Community Management to the XPRIZE

I met up with Jono Bacon at LinuxCon Europe on October 16 this year where he gave a keynote and presented a full day workshop on community management...Read more on community management in open source and at-large in this interview with Jono Bacon.

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Why This Hacker Stood Up Against ‘Verbal Abuse’ In Linux Land

Robert McMillan | Wired | July 19, 2013

When Sarah Sharp was a 20-year-old university student in Portland, she took on an extra-credit project writing USB driver code for the Linux kernel. She was too young to stay past 10 p.m. in some of the brew pubs where the local Linux-heads met, but she hung in as long as she could, learned a lot about Linux, and embraced the community. Read More »

All Things Open 2016

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 26, 2016 - 2:00am - October 27, 2016 - 2:00am
Location: 
Raleigh Convention Center
500 South Salisbury Street
Raleigh, NC 27601
United States

Join the world’s top developers, technologists, and decision makers as we explore open source, open tech, and the open web in the enterprise. Two days of keynotes, talks, tutorials, workshops and networking opportunities in Raleigh and the Research Triangle area. In our never-ending quest to stay on top of a quickly changing open source landscape, we’re happy to announce a few new tracks will be featured at the conference this year. Each track is the result of attendee feedback after the 2015 conference, as well as our own research and daily communication. Although not exhaustive in any way, we feel these will be of great interest to attendees and should result in a higher quality and more diverse event.

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