Terri Oda

Location: Ottawa | Ontario | Canada
Speaking Topics: security | web security | gnu mailman | women in technology | open source | Gaming | teaching
Spoken Languages: English; some French

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Hana Michálková

Location: Czech republic
Speaking Topics: BASH Scripting | php programming | HTML | CSS | security | linux
Spoken Languages: English | Czech

Previous Presentations: 
Logica CMG - Shell scripting , Linux Basics, TCP/IP (in English)
Infovek SK - Linux, Computer Security, Network Administration (in Czech)

Lesley Harrison, MCIJ.

Location: Newcastle | Tyne and Wear | UK
Speaking Topics: computer security | Gaming | linux | online saftey | open source | security | tech in education | Web | Web development
Spoken Languages: English

Author of the WordPress-MU Beginner's Guide, published by Packt Publishing in October 2009.

Tech Reviewer for Ubuntu books for O'Reilly Publishing.

Rachel Chalmers

Location: San Francisco USA
Speaking Topics: application virtualization | automation | Cloud Computing | desktop virtualization | infrastructure | open source | security | systems management | virtualization
Spoken Languages: English

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Rachel Chalmers has covered the technology industry since 1995. Today she runs the Infrastructure Computing for the Enterprise (ICE) practice at The 451 Group, a research firm analyzing IT innovation. ICE looks at grid and high performance computing, server virtualization, automation, enterprise systems management, application life cycle and performance management, service oriented architecture, desktop virtualization, application virtualization and the cloud.

Previous Presentations: 
TiECON 2009
Virtualisation Executive Summit 2009
LinuxWorld Next Generation Data Center 2006 and 2007
Open Source Business Conference 2005

Mackenzie Morgan

Location: DC | USA | Washington
Speaking Topics: free software contribution | GNU/Linux | history of computing | linux | open source | security | ubuntu | women in technology
Spoken Languages: English

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Mackenzie is working on her undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a focus on Computer Security and Information Assurance. She spends her downtime trying to make Ubuntu a better distribution. A history lover, she can expound upon the effects of the Norman Conquest or the lives of the women who pioneered the computing field. She is committed to getting others involved in contributing to Free & Open Source Software and will gladly show interested parties the ropes.

Previous Presentations: 
"Don't Get Cracked on Hostile WiFi" at Ohio Linux Fest 2008 & DCLUG Sept 2009
Girls in Technology "Sharing Our Success: Geek is Chic" panelist (2009)
"Sysadmins' Rosetta Stone" (Red Hat & Debian differences) at Ohio Linux Fest 2009
Girls in Technology "Sharing Our Success: Your Passion, You Choose" panelist (2010)
"Is LinuxSecure?" at Southeast LinuxFest 2010

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

Leigh Honeywell

Location: Canada | Ontario | Toronto
Speaking Topics: gender | gender issues in IT education and work | internet culture | online communities | open source | security | voip
Spoken Languages: French | English

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Previous Presentations: 
“Mobile phone call encryption” and “Secure VOIP” workshop (with Paul Wouters) - 23rd Chaos Communications Congress, December 2006
Speed Geek: “Open Source 101” - CopyCampToronto, September 2006
“Fun with Phones: Phreaking, Fraud, Scams, and the Next Generation of Telephony Problems” - Toronto Area Security Klatch, September 2006