elizabth ziph

Location: Ann Arbor | Michigan | USA
Speaking Topics: entrepreneurship | open source | Women in IT | project management | free culture | computing education
Spoken Languages: English | Hebrew | Polish

Previous Presentations: 
Consider "Change" when writing your business plan
Open Source content management systems
Using open source in government and industry

Delphine Ménard

Location: Frankfurt | Germany | (will travel)
Speaking Topics: free content | free culture | interc | intercultural communication | international collaboration | internationalisation localisation and global marketing | internationalization | open source | virtual collaboration | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: German | French | English

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Born in France, living in Germany, working around the world, I have a long experience in anything intercultural. I have been active in the Wikimedia projects and the Wikimedia organisations since 2004 and have been observing how Open Knowledge evolves and changes with time and as new people come in.

I am happy to talk about Wikimedia (the organisation, the non-profit aspect, the chapters, the international aspects), the Wikimedia projects (their international reach and presence), but also about Collaboration on an international level, especially in Open Source and Free knowledge fields.

Previous Presentations: 
Linux Tag
Shift
Wikimania
Girls Geek Dinner Frankfurt
Web Montag
Reboot
Wikipedia Tag

Kat Walsh

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.

Previous Presentations: 
Community governance panel: Wikimania 2007, 2008. Wikimedia and the Free Culture Universe: Wikimania 2007. Wikimedia and Privacy: Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2006. Young Women in Technology panel, Technology and Law panel, Harvard Women in Tech conference 2007. Wikimedia Board panel, Wikimania 2007, 2008.
Wikipedia segment, Kojo Nnamdi show, 2007. Wikipedia segment, ABC Nightline, 2007.

Claudine Chionh

Location: Australia | Melbourne
Speaking Topics: digital humanities | drupal | free culture | history
Spoken Languages: English

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Claudine Chionh is a theology student, history graduate and self-taught geek. She works as a data manager and web developer in the School of Population Health at the University of Melbourne, primarily on Founders and Survivors: Australian Lifecourses in Historical Context, which will follow the lives of Australian families from the convict transportation period to the First World War.

Previous Presentations: 
AussieChix 2008 microconference
linux.conf.au 2009 Free as in Freedom and LinuxChix miniconferences
linux.conf.au 2010
DrupalSouth 2010

Brianna Laugher

Location: Melbourne Australia
Speaking Topics: free content | free culture | wikimedia | wikipedia | wikis
Spoken Languages: English

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Previous Presentations: 
"Special:Contributions/newbies", Wikimania 2007
Wikimedia Commons tutorial, Wikimania 2007
"Who's behind Wikipedia?", LinuxChix miniconf, linux.conf.au 2008
Panelist, Building an Australasian Commons, 2008
"Wikimedia Commons for Fun & Profit", Wikimania 2008
Inkscape SVG Workshop (with Adam Hyde), Wikimania 2008
"'Safe wiki': Teaching responsible use of Wikipedia", Australian Computers in Education Conference 2008
"How Free Software Makes Wikipedia Possible", Software Freedom Day
"Wikipedia & the education system", LinuxChix microconf
"Hacking MediaWiki (For Users)", Linux Users of Victoria
"Wikimedia in copyright / Copyright in Wikimedia" (with Liam Wyatt), Unlocking IP conference
"Wikimedia's Tech Infrastructure" and "Introduction to Wikimedia Commons", GLAM-WIKI conference

Chantelle Oliver

Location: Toronto | Canada and Los Angeles | California
Speaking Topics: social networking | future of web | free culture | twitter | web accessibility and usability | history of the internet | digital divide | Academic Theories of the Internet Made Accessible

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Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: c | c++ | Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | project management | Python | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | open source | blogging | Django
Spoken Languages: English | some French

Previous Presentations: 
CodeCon 2005: "SciTools: The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design and analysis
Black Hat 2005: "Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory"
CodeCon 2006 / O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006: "Some of These Things are Just Like the Others"
San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group (2006, 2007, 2008)
SuperHappyDevHouse (2007)
USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security 2008

Meike Reichle

Location: Germany | Hildesheim | Niedersachsen
Speaking Topics: Debian | Debian Women | free culture | Free software | Free software Advocacy | gender | information freedom | linux | Linux advocacy | Packaging | Secure Linux | speaker training | Userfriendly System Administration | Women in FLOSS | Women in IT Research | Women in IT

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I always enjoy giving talks, and have always received a lot of positive feedback on them. If you'd like me to give a talk or workshop at your event contact me. I am prepared to give talks in English as well as German on a number of topics ranging from Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS), (Debian) Linux, Userfriendly System Administration and Women in FLOSS to technical topics or speaker training.

Previous Presentations: 
LinuxDays Luxembourg 2007, DebConf6 Mexico, LinuxTag 2005 Karlsruhe, Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2008, Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2007, Berlinux 2005 Berlin, Linux-Info-Tag 2005 Dresden, Chemnitzer Linuxtage 2006