Angela Byron
Angela Byron is an open source evangelist, for Drupal (an open source content management system) in particular. She got her start in both as a Google Summer of Code student in 2005. Since then, she has sought to immerse herself in the community as many different ways as possible. Her work includes coding and reviewing patches, creating and contributing to modules and themes, testing and quality assurance efforts within the project, improving documentation, and providing user support on forums and IRC. Angela is on the Board of Directors for the Drupal Association, and is currently co-authoring a book about Drupal to be published by O'Reilly in summer/fall 2008.
Professionally, Angela works as a senior web architect for Lullabot, where she helps train other Drupal developers and provides consulting to high-profile clients such as BBC, Sony BMG Records, and MTV UK on how to build Drupal websites.
One of Angela's primary passions is talking to groups (particularly women) about the myriad of ways to get involved in open source, how it's done, and all the reasons why it's beneficial. She seeks to spread the word about how awesome open source is, and to help get that 1.5% of women involved a lot closer to 50%. :)