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• Quick Contact alphascorpii

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.

• Quick Contact nightrose

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 | Mentoring | GSoC | social media | social networking | Web 2.0 | Women in IT
Spoken Languages: German | English

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Lydia Pintscher is a cat herder by nature. She studies computer science at the university of Karlsruhe, Germany and is doing community work for KDE and related communities for many years now. She is the community manager of the popular music player Amarok and a member of KDE's community working group. On top of that Lydia is one of the administrators for KDE for Google Summer of Code and Season of KDE - two programs to help people get involved in Free Software by dedicated mentoring. In general she likes to help people make awesome things happen.

• Quick Contact mary

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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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