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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Vive les bits!
Comments from the rusty cage
My talks

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
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What you should know running your Linux box secure
Cheap Thrills - Instant inspiration for the masses
The Debian Women Project
Klein aber oho - eigene FLOSS-Projekte gründen und pflegen
Linux läuft! - Und jetzt?!
Linux und freie Software richtig bewerben
Nutzer motivieren - oder: Warum der BOFH (fast) nicht lustig ist

Lydia Pintscher

Location: Germany | Karlsruhe
Speaking Topics: Amarok | community | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | IRC | kde | Kubuntu | Marketing | marketing in open source | open source | release management | social media | social networking | Web 2.0 | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: German | English

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Life at the end of the Universe

I am Community and Release Manager for Amarok and contribute to KDE and Kubuntu in various ways like community management, packaging, user support, promotion and advocacy.

Previous Presentations: 
KDE 4 - The Dawn of a new Desktop
Linux Spirit: Rockin in the Open Source Community
Amarok - Forming the Core
Community Management 101
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lydiapintscher.de/talks

Mary Gardiner

Location: Australia | New South Wales | Sydney
Speaking Topics: Computational Linguistics | Computational Semantics | Contributing to Free Software | Free software | linux | Python programming | Sentiment analysis | Starting a women's technical group

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Homepage (including CV)

Mary is a computational linguistics researcher and Free Software community member in Sydney Australia. She founded the Australian chapter of LinuxChix and has organised a couple of small women-in-Free Software events as part of linux.conf.au.

Mary has also worked as a software developer.

Conference organising experience:

  • Chair, linux.conf.au 2009 programme committee
  • Co-organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2008
  • Co-chair, linux.conf.au 2008 programme committee
  • Organiser, LinuxChix mini-conference, linux.conf.au 2007
Previous Presentations: 
Free Software, and how to pay for it, Sydney Linux Users Group, 2002
The Planet Feed Reader: Better Living Through Gravity, Open Source Developers Conference, 2006
Women in FOSS groups, lightning talk, Open Source Developers Conference, 2006
Sentiment and near-synonomy: do they go together?, the EUROLAN 2007 Doctoral Consortium
Corpus Statistics Approaches to Discriminating Among Near-Synonyms, the 10th Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics (PACLING 2007)
Talks you should submit to linux.conf.au, lightning talk, linux.conf.au 2008
Computational Linguistics: an introduction, AussieChix microconf 2008
Precious precious data, keeping it safe the sane way, Sydney Linux Users Group 2008
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Academic publications list (articles and papers)
Free Software, and how to pay for it (slides)
The Planet Feed Reader: Better Living Through Gravity (slides)
Talks you should submit to linux.conf.au (slides)
Computational Linguistics: an introduction (slides, audio and video)
Precious precious data, keeping it safe the sane way (slides and notes)