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• Quick Contact mindspillage

Location: DC | Washington
Speaking Topics: creative commons licensing | free content | free culture | free culture and IP law | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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I am happy to talk about almost any aspect of Wikimedia/Wikipedia, including workshop/tutorial, governance, privacy, biographies of living people, interaction with museums and organizations, nonprofit strategy, culture, licensing, copyright/patent/trademark issues, Wikipedia in schools, gender balance and gender issues, humor, free speech/censorship, quality, and internationalism.

(I can briefly cover technical infrastructure, but would recommend others to give a full talk.)

I can also talk about free culture and free content licensing in general.

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• Quick Contact Joy.Fulton

Location: DC | USA | Washington
Speaking Topics: accessibility | marketing online | new media | online web presence | social media | usability | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Joy Fulton, Managing Web Editor for GSA's Regions

Joy Fulton is a geek and a communications, content and marketing expert who has worked in online and print media. Joy is the managing editor for GSA's eleven regions, and helps their clients locate key products, services and contacts around the world. She recently participated in Gov 2.0 Camp, http://www.government20club.org/ , held March 27 - 28, 2009, at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC.

• Quick Contact maco

Location: DC | USA | Washington
Speaking Topics: free software contribution | GNU/Linux | history of computing | linux | open source | security | ubuntu | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Mackenzie is working on her undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a focus on Computer Security and Information Assurance. She spends her downtime trying to make Ubuntu a better distribution. A history lover, she can expound upon the effects of the Norman Conquest or the lives of the women who pioneered the computing field. She is committed to getting others involved in contributing to Free & Open Source Software and will gladly show interested parties the ropes.

• Quick Contact loreleibrown

Location: Washington | DC | USA
Speaking Topics: information architecture | Internet Strategy | content management | Content Strategy | usability | Associations
Spoken Languages: English

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• Quick Contact elwing

Location: DC | USA | Washington
Speaking Topics: Digital Identities | Network Security | PKI | UNIX Security
Spoken Languages: English

Laura's speaking skills bring together several topics surrounding security. Her specializations are network and UNIX security. She is also active in PKI development and management, like how to actually use those certificates you spent so much for.

Laura comes from a UNIX system administrator background, with fluency in OS X, FreeBSD, Linux (Debian and RedHat/Fedora), Solaris, and even some HP-UX and AIX thrown in.

Lately, she's been managing groups of security professionals for such tasks as defining requirements, developing secure code, and penetration testing.

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• Quick Contact JessicaMoss

Location: DC | USA | Virginia | Washington DC
Speaking Topics: Business Intelligence | SSIS | SSRS
Spoken Languages: English

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Jessica M. Moss is a Microsoft SQL Server MVP and a business intelligence mentor with Solid Quality Mentors. An MCDBA, MCTS: SQL Server 2005 BI, and MCITP: SQL Server 2005 BI, Jessica has been working with the SQL Server 2005 Business Intelligence suite for the past several years. While working at a major clothing retailer, she had the opportunity to work with the SQL Server 2005 TAP program, developing both Integration Services packages and Reporting Services reports in CTPs and Beta versions.

• Quick Contact AmySenger

Location: Washington | DC
Speaking Topics: Social Software | Web 2.0