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Location: San Francisco | USA
Speaking Topics: Collaboration technologies in Open Source | Building a business with Open Source | Open Source Community | Open source in education | Open Source in Developing Countries
Spoken Languages: Hindi | English

Alolita Sharma has been involved with open source since the early days of Linux. She has actively promoted open source software adoption in industry, government and developing economies for the past 12 years, working with leaders in US and India's IT industry, government and education to enable change and transparency. She believes that the ideas of open source can generate unbounded opportunity for the development of technology and economic prosperity in developing nations.

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Location: USA | Maryland
Speaking Topics: cat herding | documentation | drupal | Open Source CMS | Open Source Community
Spoken Languages: English

I've been involved with Drupal since 2006 and am the current Documentation Team Lead for the project. In March 2009 I was awarded a Knight Foundation grant to improve Drupal documentation. I travel around the world, speaking at events from local high schools to major conferences like OSCON, working to improve Drupal and Open Source software. I was also involved with organizing the Writing Open Source conference, and the subsequent WOSdocs community, to get open source projects together to share ideas about how to improve documentation.

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Location: Portland
Speaking Topics: automation | Databases | drupal | monitoring | Open Source Community | postgresql | sysadmin | system administration

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Selena Deckelmann is a software engineer at End Point Corporation. She currently leads PDXPUG, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and helps organize Code n Splode, a programming group whose goal is to get more women involved in open source. She is on the board of Legion of Tech. In her spare time, she collects eggs from her chickens, gardens and occasionally mixes drinks for Portland Perl Mongers.