Laura Francis

Location: Bristol | UK (willing to travel)
Speaking Topics: project management | Digital Production Process Improvement | Radical Project Management | Agile Project Management with Agile Production | User Experience Design
Spoken Languages: English

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elizabth ziph

Location: Ann Arbor | Michigan | USA
Speaking Topics: entrepreneurship | open source | Women in IT | project management | free culture | computing education
Spoken Languages: English | Hebrew | Polish

Previous Presentations: 
Consider "Change" when writing your business plan
Open Source content management systems
Using open source in government and industry

Pamela L. Howell

Location: Central NJ | NYC and Philadelphia - USA
Speaking Topics: system administration | open source | Freedom of Information | Privacy | hacking | Time Management | project management | Being a Woman Geek | UberGeek-ness
Spoken Languages: English | Geek | French (light)

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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/)

Shaymaa

Location: Kuwait
Speaking Topics: CSS | project management | software engineering | usability | Web standards | Women in IT | Content Management Systems
Spoken Languages: English | Arabic

Sumana Harihareswara

Location: NY USA
Speaking Topics: CMS | fantasy and science fiction | India | offshoring | political science | Powerpoint Karaoke | project management | Project Management Basics with MS Project | QA | Software Testing | technical management | technical writing | Testing
Spoken Languages: English

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I can speak easily to your group about the technical aspects of the software development lifecycle, how to translate between biz-school speak and geek jargon, or seeing a project from engineers', marketers', testers', and others' points of view. Another useful talk I can give empowers people with political science tools to X-ray their organizations.

Previous Presentations: 
Three Models of Power: A Political Science Lens on Your Organization - Seattle Mindcamp 2008
You, Yes You, Can Do Standup Comedy (lecture & workshop) - Seattle Mindcamp 2008
Powerpoint Karaoke leader/organizer: multiple venues & occasions
Featured Guest on "Bear in Mind" radio program - University of California, Berkeley, February 2003
"Politics in Modern Science Fiction" - UC Berkeley class, Spring 2001
"Politics of the Midlife Crisis" - UC Berkeley class, Spring & Fall 2000

Laura Scroggins

Location: California | USA
Speaking Topics: drupal | enterprise web development | media websites | podcasting | project management | Web 2.0
Spoken Languages: English

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Laura Scroggins is a senior business executive with extensive marketing, strategy, and operational experience in technology and training.

An excellent leader with a record of contribution to improving financial performance, increased productivity and enhanced internal controls. As a co-founder of Tea Leaf Media Ms. Scroggins provides both vision and hands-on leadership including building the Tea Leaf Media professional services organization from the ground up.

Previous Presentations: 
Former University Faculty - Cal State Univ System
DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2007: Project Management
BadCamp 2007: Project Management

Lee Godfrey

Location: Ontario | Canada | Toronto
Speaking Topics: blogging | eBusiness Strategy | elearning | eMarketing | project management | social media | social networking | usability | Web 2.0 | Women in IT | women in technology | Working Virtually
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Lee Godfrey began working on web-based projects in 1993, making her one of Canada’s internet pioneers.

With over twenty years of consulting experience, and nearly a decade as one of Canada’s best known eBusiness educators, Lee brings a solid understanding of how to best exploit the power of technology and the web.

Meredith L. Patterson

Location: CA | San Francisco | United States
Speaking Topics: c | c++ | Databases | free culture | postgresql | programming | project management | Python | security | software engineering | Web 2.0 | open source | blogging | Django
Spoken Languages: English | some French

Previous Presentations: 
CodeCon 2005: "SciTools: The grand unified web-based toolkit for genetic design and analysis
Black Hat 2005: "Stopping Injection Attacks with Computational Theory"
CodeCon 2006 / O'Reilly Emerging Tech 2006: "Some of These Things are Just Like the Others"
San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group (2006, 2007, 2008)
SuperHappyDevHouse (2007)
USENIX Workshop on Usability, Psychology and Security 2008

Zainab Umar

Location: Islamabad
Speaking Topics: Software Testing | project management

Audrey Eschright

Location: Oregon | Portland | USA
Speaking Topics: Testing | geek culture | open source | project management | RSpec | Ruby On Rails | Ruby | Privacy
Spoken Languages: English

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Programmer at Elevated Code working with Ruby, Rails, and occasionally iPhone development. Writer of essays, recipes, horror comics, and knitting patterns. Photographer working with digital and film cameras, including Polaroid, Holga, and pinholes. Community organizer of unconferences like WhereCampPDX. Core team member of the infamous Calagator. Agitator for a variety of grassroots local tech.

Previous Presentations: 
Open Source Bridge, The Fine Line Between Creepy and Fun, June 2010
Open Source Bridge, Effective Code Sprinting, June 2009
OSCON, Art of Community Lightning Talks: Friendly Anarchy, July 2008
OSCON, Tools for Local Communities (panel moderator), July 2008
FOSCON 2008: Cooking With Ruby, The Calagator Development Process, July 2008
OTBC Shimane Open Source Event, Calagator: a Community Calendar Aggregator, February 2008
Ignite Portland, Knitting: a guide for geeks, November 2007