Mel Chua

Location: USA | Chicago
Speaking Topics: olpc | education | engineering | electronics | embedded development | olin | user groups | grassroots | unconferences | hackathons
Spoken Languages: English

what: hacker, teacher, ECE, coder, intermittent journalist/writer/artist, purveyor of randomosity

note: I learn by documenting. For some reason, this makes fellow hackers really happy.

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

Tiffany Farriss

Location: Chicago | IL
Speaking Topics: Collaboration | Development process | drupal | Open source in education | Open source in museums | Running a business | Working with your spouse | Bootstrapped entrepreneurism | Web project strategy

Tiffany Farriss is the co-owner of Chicago-based Web development firm Palantir.net, Inc. and the AIGA Chicago Electronic Media Chair. Working in collaboration with a variety of creative partners, she has managed the development of visually and functionally sophisticated sites for a variety of high-profile corporate, educational, and institutional clients.

Previous Presentations: 
SXSW 2008: Content Management System Round-up
Drupalcon Boston 2008 Tips and Tricks: Getting your team up to speed and staying there!
Drupalcon Boston 2008: Small giants: Building High Quality Drupal Businesses

Leah Jones

Location: USA | Chicago | IL
Speaking Topics: search skills | digital pr | keeping up with online conversation | digital evangelism | social media skills for authors and artists | Judaism & Social Media

Photo: 
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Leah Jones is currently the Digital-Culture Evangelist in Edelman Digital where her mandate is to help make every PR professional at Edelman PR more digitally savvy. Previously she was the Conversation Analyst in Edelman's me2revolution doing research on behalf of brands across social media, providing insights and proposing strategy based on the conversation research.

A blogger since November 2003, Leah now creates content for a number of blogs, is active in social networks and is constantly learning about new sites to then teach others how to use them for business.

Previous Presentations: 
PRSA of Suburban Chicago: Great Social Media, Building a Social Media Plan
Pilcrow Lit Fest: Going Beyond Google, for authors
ROI120: Going Beyond Google