Marta Rybczynska
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Esther Schindler
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A long-time technology evangelist and community instigator, Esther Schindler has been in the computer press since 1992. Her primary journalistic focus for the last decade has been software development and open source, and she’s contributed as writer or editor to ITExpertVoice.com, Software Test & Performance, InformIT.com, DevSource.com, and dozens of other publications. She’s written market research analyst reports since 2002; she wrote four books (including one that actually paid out its advance) and had her hand in writing or editing another eight.
Previous Presentations:
Niche Media Digital Conference, September 2009. Presentation about building online communities for niche magazines and publications
O’Reilly’s Open Source Conference, July 2009. Led panel about “What open source projects need to know about dealing with the press.”
TopCoder International Contest, panel moderator, 2008.
Rain Ashford
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My current role is Senior Producer at BBC Learning where I'm presently across the BBC's Media Literacy supertopic portal. During my 10 years at the BBC I've developed and produced many of the BBC's high priority sites and online activities.
I'm passionate about technology. I run a Women in Technology network for my colleagues with speakers, events and discussion on careers, training, raising your profile and encouraging women to look at careers in tech. I previously co-ran the BBC's developer network, BBC Backstage, I'm a hardware hacker, coder, artist, gamer and blogger.
Previous Presentations:
Yahoo! Hackday, Over the Air, OSSAT (Open Source Show and Tell) Musion MAMAs, BBC Women In Tech, OSHUG (Open Source Hardware Users Group), Arduino DevCamp, + various unconferences
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elizabth ziph
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Previous Presentations:
Consider "Change" when writing your business plan
Open Source content management systems
Using open source in government and industry
Juliette Reinders Folmer
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Juliette is an all round web-consultant and developer. Having started with client-side web development in 2000, she furtively tried to avoid server-side web until she was forced to learn PHP at knife-point in 2002 and found herself hooked quite quickly. As she herself would put it 'It is more fun than Sudoku, and just as challenging to get it right'. She has actively contributed to a number of open source projects and published several articles and php-classes.
Previous Presentations:
DPC2009 - Everything you always wanted to know about UTF-8 (but never dared to ask)
PHPBenelux sept 2009 - The Big "Why Equal doesn't equal" quiz
PHPNW2009 - Everything you always wanted to know about UTF-8 (but never dared to ask)
Pamela L. Howell
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Pamela L. Howell is a senior-level IT consultant in the system administration, security, and programming fields from Central NJ. She's also been a UNIX geek since she went in to her dad's office at Bell Labs and printed Snoopy calendars on his Multics box in the early 70s, but more officially since she learned SVR4 Rel3 at the labs herself 1988-90. She tends to specialize in communicating intensely technical information as clearly as possible.
Previous Presentations:
LOPSA-NJ, Oct. 01, 2009 - Talk entitled, "Almost 30 Points of Failure...or...how I spent 3 days deinstalling Vista and Vmware and trying to get a stable Ubuntu 9.04 enviornment."
Beyond HOPE Conference 1997, Organizer (http://beyond.hope.net)
HOPE Conference, Registration, Documentation, Ops/Support and flophouse (http://hope94.hope.net/)
Delphine Ménard
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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
Lesley Harrison, MCIJ.
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Author of the WordPress-MU Beginner's Guide, published by Packt Publishing in October 2009.
Tech Reviewer for Ubuntu books for O'Reilly Publishing.
Melanie Rhianna Lewis
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I have been working with software since the early 80s. Initially using 8 bit processors before moving on to the 32 bit ARM processor at the end of the 80s. During this time I also used UNIX and VMS. I first used Linux in about 1995 which was when I returned to University to study for a Masters specialising in Machine Vision. I subsquently put together the first ARM Linux distribution. I have worked in embedded software, application software, client/server and comms. I have been active in the FOSS community off and on since then.
Previous Presentations:
Linux on Acorn/ARM - Wakefield Acorn User Show 1999
BarCamp Leeds 2009 (UK) - Introduction To Digital Television
PHP NW (September 2009) - Wordpress Plugins
PHP NW (October 2009) - The Decorator Pattern
BarCamp Manchester 2009 (UK) - Arduinos, AVR and Beyond
BarCamp Manchester 2009 (UK) - Wordpress Plugins
BarCamp Bradford 2009 (UK) - Arduinos, AVR and Beyond
Manchester Geek Girl Afternoon Tea (January 2010) - Arduino Workshop
Makefaire Newcastle 2010 (UK) - Displayed various craft and geek projects
Geekup Leeds (April 2010) - Makefaire Newcastle
PHP NW (April 2010) - Web Services for Consumer Devices [BETA]
Embedded Linux Conference 2010 (SF, CA) - Embedded Linux in a Set Top Box - A Case Study.
Dutch PHP Conference 2010 (NL) - Tutorial - PHP Extensions in C
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