Building a business with Open Source

Alolita Sharma

Web links / Blogs:

Open Source Buzz

Open Source Initiative

Technetra

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.

Previous Presentations:

Open Source, Open World at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore

Building successful open source communities at OSSPAC 2009, Singapore

Users as Contributors at GNUnify 2009, Pune, India

Presentation Web Links:

Sessions On Open Source

Learn about Open Source: An Introduction to Open Source at 20000 feet

Laura Scott

Quick Contact Laura Scott

Web links / Blogs:

pingVision

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BlogHer

Laura Scott is President of pingVision, LLC, an interactive design and development company located in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in Drupal design, development and deployment.

Previous Presentations:

BlogHer 2006: Deeply Geeky panelist

OSCMS 2007: Theming for Drupal

OSCMS 2007: Building Online Community

Presentation Web Links:

Building Community whiteboard notes from session

Building Community Google video

Theming Drupal slides

Nina Meiers

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XD Design

Blogs

Nina Meiers - XD Design and Microsoft MVP has been in the field of Web Developing, Design & Hosting for over 10 years now.

Since 2002 has focussed on building a business using the DotNetNuke open source web application framework and has clients from many countries and has advised and consulted with Fortune 500 companies right through to single business operators who want to utilise Microsoft's premier Open Source Project - DotNetNuke.