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.
I like to share knowledge, which is why I am not limited just to speaking, but also am interested in workshops / expert tables and moderation. Additionally I have become a frequent advisor for organizers of conferences as well as am involved in several barcamps.
One of my favourite topics is how to grow your business internationally, both from the side of for example the US coming to Europe as vice versa, but I am also happy to 'just' transport what is so special about the net and web 2.0.
Alicia has an IT degree from Sydney, Australia, and has worked in internet and mobile application product management for 10 years.
However, in 2006, as a result of a failed Google job interview, Alicia decided to implement an idea for a web application she had come up with years before, and start her own web start-up.
She used her savings, and worked full-time while developing the proposition, and hired Romanian developers to make her vision a reality. It was hard unforgiving work, but her passion and dedication to her vision kept her working day and night.
Anne Christensen is a Web Services Librarian at the State and University Library in Hamburg, Germany. She has developed Stella, one of the best-known library chatbots, and currently works on other projects in the Library 2.0 context. Anne holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Library and Information Science and a Master's Degree in Library in Information Science from Humboldt University in Berlin.
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.
Jutta Horstmann is an IT consultant.
Her company "data in transit" provides Open Source software and services.
At the moment, she focusses on web programming, database applications and content management systems.
Before, she administrated UNIX and Linux systems as well as several database management system flavours.
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.
