Addison Berry

Location: USA | Maryland
Speaking Topics: cat herding | documentation | drupal | Open Source CMS | Open Source Community
Spoken Languages: English

I've been involved with Drupal since 2006 and am the current Documentation Team Lead for the project. In March 2009 I was awarded a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation. I travel around the world, speaking at events from local high schools to major conferences like OSCON, working to improve Drupal and Open Source software. I was also involved with organizing the Writing Open Source conference, and the subsequent WOSdocs community, to get open source projects together to share ideas about how to improve documentation.

Previous Presentations: 
CMS Brasil (São Paulo, Brazil): Building Drupal 7
Many Drupalcons, on a variety of topics from code to community
Writing Open Source (Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada): Cat herding 101

Noirin Shirley

Location: Zurich | Switzerland
Speaking Topics: open source | documentation | non-code contributions | blogging | women in technology | women in open source | floss | organizing events
Spoken Languages: English

Noirin Shirley is a jack of all trades, and a master of several. A technical writer by day, Noirin started working on documentation for the Apache httpd project while at university, and finding she still had time on her hands, trained as an ambulance attendant with the St John Ambulance Brigade. She helps organise the Apache Software Foundation's bi-annual conference, ApacheCon, and is actively involved in Open Source efforts around the world! She is a founder member of Digital Rights Ireland, and a Director of her local branch of the System Administrators' Guild.

Previous Presentations: 
How Do You Do? Writing Documentation Your Audience Can Read - ApacheCon US
Women in Open Source - Software Freedom Day
Blogging for Beginners - University Computer Society

Emma Jane Hogbin

Location: Canada | ON Canada | Ontario | Toronto
Speaking Topics: community engagement | conference organization | documentation | drupal | floss | linux | moodle | MySQL | openoffice.org | open source | speaker training | ubuntu | Women in IT

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International speaker on the topics of (FOSS) documentation and DocBook, gender and IT and engaging ones physical community through the use of technology. Special interest in rural use of technology. Experience organizing community-focused technology conferences using local food and with energy offset credits. Several years as a community college instructor of PHP, MySQL, XHTML, ColdFusion, Dreamweaver (although she is a rabid Vim user) and standards-based Web development.

Previous Presentations: 
LugRadioLive and OSCON where she delivered her (now very famous) women in FOSS talk entitled, "Form an orderly queue, ladies."
NotACon speaking on: "HICK Tech: the rural and modern technology conference"
DrupalCampToronto (Porting * to Drupal) and DrupalCon in Szeged (Open for (small) Business)
CONTACT 2007 - Theatre conference, using the Web to promote your business
Libre Software Meeting (Bordeaux 2004) - documentation, TLDP
BGLUG, KWLUG, GTALUG, TLUG, Toronto PerlMongers - Presentation Bootcamp