From the monthly archives:

June 2009

The project that must not be named

by Michael Krupa on June 29, 2009

Well, that got your attention!! My blogging brain appears to be on extended leave but I didn’t want you all to think I had abandoned you so I thought I would give a shout out to Meg Bear over at Talented Apps for her great post last week:

http://talentedapps.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/shock-and-awww/

For those of you waiting for the Oracle Fusion Apps, this is a must read since Meg finally acknowledges the elephant in the room:

“I totally understand too, why wouldn’t people get excited about a project that is entirely secret and vague.”

We anxiously await Fusion becoming a public reality and wish Meg continued success on the project.

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I’m at the Portland Open Source Bridge Conference

by Michael Krupa on June 17, 2009

While some of you are toiling away in the corporate dungeons, I am hopefully filling up my brain with lots and lots of good open source information.

Portland’s amazing tech community is putting on an incredibly low cost conference at the Oregon Convention Center:

Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies and for people interested in learning the open source way. It’s not a typical technical conference. Here’s what makes it different:

  • It’s entirely volunteer-run, by developers, for developers. This is the conference you’ve always wanted to attend.
  • Session tracks are technology agnostic, based instead around shared community experiences and focused on similarities between projects, not differences.
  • The geekery doesn’t end when the sessions do. There will also be a 24-hour hacker lounge for code sprints, bug bashes, session deep dives, bouncing ideas, starting new projects or just mingling and taking in the vibe.

Amazing, you say…how come you didn’t tell me about it before, you say…I can’t get off work to attend, now what do I do, you say…

Fear not, many of the sessions are being lived streamed. Just head on over to:

http://opensourcebridge.org/

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HR Happy Hour 2

by Michael Krupa on June 10, 2009

The second HR Happy Hour was last Friday evening and a good time was had by all. Steve Boese and his lovely co-host Shauna Moerke lead the call. with special guests Lisa Rosendahl and Deidre Honner.

Participating on the call or via write in questions (from Twitter) were @JubileeHR, @frankroche, @beckyallen, @slcmyers, @adowling, @ljbooth, @StephanieALloyd, @Mittons, and @beneubanks.

We talked about Twitter, how to get started in blogging and many other topics. Be sure to listen using the widget below.

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Episode II: Attack of the HR Happy Hour

by Michael Krupa on June 4, 2009

Hopefully most of you got my little joke up there in the title of the post. If not, here is a hint. Anyhoo. Last week I participated in a nearly spur of the moment HR Happy Hour on Blog Talk Radio that was organized by Steve Boese and Mark Stelzner. An awesome group of people participated. If you missed it you can listen here.

Since we had so much fun, Steve organized a second HR Happy Hour this Friday June 5th at 6:00 PM EDT (that’s 3pm Pacific Time for those of you west coast time challenged individuals). In addition to the usual suspects, Steve strong armed Lisa Rosendahl and Deidre Honner to also join the call. If you listen carefully you might even hear the HR Minion’s dog try to join the conversation.

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