Máirín Duffy

Location: Boston | Massachusetts | USA
Speaking Topics: fedora | designing for an operating system | FLOSS software UI design and user experience | FLOSS creative tools (Inkscape | gimp | etc.) | teaching kids FLOSS | design/UX for developers | FLOSS-friendly licenses for creative works | how do I do X the free & open source way?
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
LibrePlanet - Cambridge, MA March 2010
FUDcon (Fedora Users and Developers Conference) - Toronto, Canada December 2009
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Center for Open Source - Troy, NY February 2010

Jamie Pappas

Location: USA | Boston | Massachusetts
Speaking Topics: blogging | social media | corporate blogging | community | twitter | enterprise 2.0 | Facebook | Flickr | social media strategy | LinkedIn | blogger relations | Social Media Best Practices | Social Media in the Enterprise | Enterprise 2.0 Strategy | Enterprise 2.0 Best Practices | Community Manager | YouTube
Spoken Languages: English

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Jamie Pappas is a successful Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategist, evangelist, and community manager at EMC Corporation, offering an excellent track record of proven leadership and subject matter expertise. Jamie has a hand in developing and driving overall Enterprise 2.0 and social media strategy across the entire organization, identifying opportunities to integrate social media and community into the daily lives of employees, both internally as a team collaboration tool, and externally as a way to engage with customers, partners and prospects.

Mel Chua

Location: Boston | USA
Speaking Topics: accessibility | bahasa geek to english translation | electrical engineering | engineering education | hacker culture | fedora | sugar | QA | Packaging | olpc | open source | unconferences | universal design | user groups | wrangling volunteers (cat-herding) | community | POSSE | teachingopensource
Spoken Languages: English

My name is Mel. I’ve been called a hacker by other hackers. Pressed for a short job description, I would say that I engineer educations. I’ve also been called an open-source community ninja, catnip gardener (from the old adage that managing programmers is like herding cats), and a Swiss Army Person or a Hack Of All Trades.

Previous Presentations: 
Linuxfest Northwest 2008, Bellingham WA, USA - One Laptop Per Child track (multiple presentations on software development for the XO stack)
OLPC Chicago meetup, Google Chicago January 2008 - organizer and facilitator
OLPC Game Jam, Boston MA 2007 - coordinator and open space facilitator

Abby Blachly

Location: Boston | MA USA
Speaking Topics: community wisdom | LibraryThing | social networking | Web 2.0

I'm LibraryThing's librarian!

A longer list of presentations I've done is on LibraryThing's Press page

Previous Presentations: 
March 19, 2008. Beta Phi Mu initiation ceremony. Simmons College, Boston, MA
March 10, 2008. LAUNC-CH keynote. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
October 15 2007. New England Library Association Annual Conference, Sturbridge, MA
June 29, 2007. NFAIS program on User-Generated Content and Social Media, "Community Wisdom"
May 31, 2007. Book Expo America, "Using Social Networking To Build Author Brands"
April 19, 2007. National Library of Australia, "Innovative Ideas 2007"

Laura Fitton

Location: Boston | MA
Speaking Topics: social media | Web 2.0 | twitter | Presentations | community | communications

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Christine Corbett Moran

Location: Boston | Massachusetts | USA
Speaking Topics: Natural Language Processing | Computational Linguistics | Gender Issues