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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.

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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.