Leslie Fisher

Location: USA | Southern California
Speaking Topics: Digital Photography | gadgets | Adobe Applications | Photoshop | Lightroom | social networking | Web 2.0 | Acrobat | MP3 | podcasting | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

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Leslie Fishers interest in technology began while studying music at the University of Southern California. She quickly realized the value of utilizing computers for music mixing and recording. She grabbed her 300 baud modem, jumped on the Internet (before anyone really called it the internet) and started looking for music resources. She soon realized she was spending more time discovering technology than playing music so she changed her major and tried to figure out what geeky thing she could do for the rest of her life.

Akkana Peck

Location: San Francisco Bay Area | USA | CA | San Jose
Speaking Topics: astronomy | Contributing to Free Software | Digital Photography | firefox | gimp | linuxchix | GNU/Linux
Spoken Languages: English

Akkana Peck is a freelance software engineer and writer based in San Jose, CA, USA. She specializes in free open source software such as Linux, Mozilla Firefox and GIMP. She was a longtime Mozilla developer and has contributed to numerous other open source projects, is active in educational groups such as LinuxChix, and is the author of the book "Beginning GIMP: From Novice to Professional."

Previous Presentations: 
Linux.Conf.Au 2008: "Gimp-fu and You: Writing GIMP Scripts and Plug-ins"
SCALE 2008: "GIMP Demystified"
Linux.Conf.Au 2007: "GIMP Uncovered"
LinuxChix MiniConf, LCA 2007: "Bug Fixing for Everyone"
GetSET 2007: "Programming in Javascript"
LAAS 2006: "Observing the Moon"
PenLUG 2003: "Mozilla Tips and Tricks"