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

Leigh Honeywell

Location: Canada | Ontario | Toronto
Speaking Topics: gender | gender issues in IT education and work | internet culture | online communities | open source | security | voip
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Previous Presentations: 
“Mobile phone call encryption” and “Secure VOIP” workshop (with Paul Wouters) - 23rd Chaos Communications Congress, December 2006
Speed Geek: “Open Source 101” - CopyCampToronto, September 2006
“Fun with Phones: Phreaking, Fraud, Scams, and the Next Generation of Telephony Problems” - Toronto Area Security Klatch, September 2006

Dori Smith

Location: CA | San Francisco Bay Area | USA
Speaking Topics: iPhone | mobile | gadgets | blogging | social networking | online communities | Internet | Web 2.0 | Javascript | CSS | SEO | Web standards | Dreamweaver | Women in IT | HTML | community | twitter | Ajax | Widgets | gender | OS X | weblogs | Web development | mac OS | wikis | jquery | video | tech writing | YUI
Spoken Languages: English

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How many hats can one woman wear?

I'm an expert in fields from the Mac (since 1992), Web development (since 1995), programming (since 1977—yes, really), online communities (since 1994), and weblogging (since 1999). I've written and taught about all of these, and more.

Books I've authored or co-authored:

  • Styling Web Pages with CSS: Visual QuickProject Guide (Peachpit Press, 2009)
  • JavaScript & Ajax for the Web: Visual QuickStart Guide, 7 ed. (Peachpit, 2009), and 6 ed. (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS4 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2009)
  • Ajax Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2008)
  • JavaScript Essential Training video course (Lynda.com, 2007)
  • Dreamweaver CS3 for Windows & Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2007)
  • Macromedia Dreamweaver 8: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2005)
  • Mac OS X Unwired (O'Reilly Media, 2003)
  • Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 2002)
  • Java for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide (Peachpit, 1998)
  • JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 2 ed. (Peachpit, 1997), 3 ed. (1999), 4 ed. (2001), 5 ed. (2003), and Student ed (2003)
Previous Presentations: 
• Macworld Expo, on topics from "Web Design and Delivery" (two-day Power Tools conference), "Webmaster 2003," "Advanced Webmaster Applications," "JavaScript Bootcamp," and "JavaScript Dynamic HTML Wizardry." Led one of the two MacBrainiac challenge teams in 2006.
• Web-related conferences including Voices that Matter, Webstock (New Zealand), SxSW (2002, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009), Web Design World, Web Builder, CNET Builder.com Live!, Script 'Scape Geek Cruise, Perl Whirl Geek Cruise, Web Design '99, Web Design World '99, and JavaScript '98.
• Mac-related conferences including O'Reilly Mac OS X Conferences, NCMUG Mac Computer Expos, and MacMania Geek Cruises.